Roasted pigs

When I woke up this morning I walked straight up to their cage. Lulu was all fours on the roof of the house, watching - what, I don't know. But she was watching, not intently, just sort of taking in the surroundings. The morning was bright and hinted on a sunny day ahead. Outside, the birds chirped. Her head lifted a little to the chirping, and listened attentively. Now this is why I say she's intelligent. It seems she pays attention to everything around her, listening, seeing. And she can do this longer than any hamsters I've ever met.

Today Lulu slept in the tunnel while Lucy slept on the groud floor of the cage. The house wasn't popular today.

Gave them guavas in the evening. Held a slice of it near Lucy, and she bit on it, before holding the fruit with her two hands and ply it away. Hamsters are cute when they eat! There are a few corns left on the dish. I supposed they've had too much of mixed veg. Will give them some eggs tomorrow.And bread. Boy do they love bread!! I think it was during the particularly busy week when I first gave them bread. Lulu stuffed everything in her mouth.

Went to visit Hamster's grave. This was my first visit since I buried Hamster in January. Except for the slightly sunken ground, the burial spot has blended in with the rest of the ground, even grass has grown on it. Poured some sand on the spot to even it out. Hamster had eyes just like Lulu's; big and black. It had white midsection, also like Lulu, but with a tinge of grey and black on its brown fur. I never found out Hamster's sex. When it was alive I was told it was female and Lulu, male. But I later found out that Lulu's female, by then Hamster was already resting in peace.

While I cleaned the cage (sometime close to ten), I left Lu and Luce to run around in the living room. I dislike keeping them in the small cage. It's imprisonment. Pets should be roam freely if possible, and I want Lu and Luce to be able to stretch their legs, run fast and wild to their liking, and enjoy as much freedom as possible.

Hamsters are like Play-Doh. They can be round and yet in a blink of an eye they're flat. Lulu and Lucy can run the tunnel for what seemed like eternity, and just suddenly they're lying low and still like roasted pigs. When I saw them doing that this evening after cage cleaning I took out the videocam and shot twenty minutes of hamster antics. They're doing it right now. Still as roasted pigs. Eyes open, as if pondering something.

Houseless Hamsters

Took out the house to wash and left to dry. Lulu and Lucy are taking their turns on the wheel right now. These days, Lulu has taken a liking to the tunnel. She'd hoard her food and slip into tunnel where she quietly takes her bite, and sleep in the tunnel during the day. This evening I noticed Lucy doing the same thing.

Hamsters on wheels are the cutest thing ever, bums swinging from side to side, legs propelling...

Lucy blues

Since moving into the new cage both Lu and Luce have discarded their old habit of bitting the bars....until last night. Lucy was her old adamant and stubborn self again, chewing savagely on the gate. Cutest thing is she knew it was the gate, and she wanted to get out. When I opened it she wasted not one second and scrambled out.

Put Lulu and Lucy out to walk in the house last night, taking turns of course, and under my watchful eyes.

The angelic side of Lucy finally wore off and she was forcefully driving Lulu down the tunnel again whenever they met.

Two weeks update

Friday, 25th June
2.00am
Lulu and Lucy fought. Had they not knocked the ladder I wouldn't have noticed their scuffle. Instinctively I put a hand in between to break the fight and was given a couple of scratches. Nothing serious, only two small grazes on my skin. Lulu however was not that fortunate. At first I didn't notice it, because after the fight Lulu went straight up to the house and licked herself. I checked Lucy for wounds but found none. Lulu then came out of the house and there on her left foot was a nasty bloody wound. I was concerned she may have anything severed but upon closer inspection -luckily- found all her toes to be intact. I'm taking no chances for the night. Took out the old blue cage and transferred Lucy into it.

Mid day
Put ointment on Lulu's foot. For the first time the hamsters slept in a seperate house each. There was nothing to suggest any outoward incidents hours earlier. Both slept soundly.

11.00pm
When I came home in the late evening, Lucy was inside the old cage again with Lulu. Apparently at dinner time Lulu was enjoying herself on the tunnels and Lucy, who was in the cage next to Lulu's, kept watching Lulu on tip toe, hands on the rails. She then entertained herself on the old wheel - the only amusement in the blue cage - but stop too sudden and flung out. That didn't stop her from pathetically watching Lulu in the greener pastures. Out of sympathy Lucy was brought back into the cage with Lulu, and both were happily playing in tunnels.

Now, I don't know of course, but sometimes things happen that suggests the two know when I speak to them. I warmed Lucy that if she ever is naughty again I will put her in the blue cage indefinitely. After that, she became an angel. Normally when the hamsters came across face to face in the tunnel, Lucy would be the one furiously pushing on Lulu's head till Lulu has to reverse, no matter how far in Lulu has climbed the tunnel. After my forewarning Lucy quickly backs up, and went the opposite way whenenever she encounter Lulu in the tunnel!

Last week of June
Haven't been watching Lu and Luce due to a busy week. Whenever I do, Lucy would most of the time be running in the wheel and Lulu was either in the house, lying and resting, or take her turn on the wheel but that is normally short lived as Lucy would push her way into the wheel again. When Lucy finally gets tired and takes a nap, Lulu happily has her scarce opportunity on the wheel.

Found out Lulu has a scar on the midsection. I suspect it was a wound from the fight on Friday that went unnoticed. Poor Lulu! The blood has dried up but the gash looked deep. By the end of the week though, both wounds were healed. The injury on her foot left a light grey scar.