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Summer Goodness – Cilantro

July 22nd, 2009

Since it’s summer, I’ve been keeping a vegetable garden growing all sorts of things. One of the things I’m growing is cilantro & my cilantros are going crazy! They keep going to seed every week & I have to keep trimming them. That’s surely a good thing for the hamsters :-)

DH cilantro
Daddy Hamster (above) & Baby Hamster (below) enjoying freshly picked cilantro

BH cilantro

To see how the garden has progressed throughout the summer, see here.

ps: the chinchillas also like cilantros, but they like them slightly crispy & dry.

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When It’s Hot ..

July 2nd, 2009

This is what the chinchillas do:

Tubby cooling on tileTubby cooling himself off during playtime by lying flat on the terracotta tiles

Winnie cooling on cage barsWinnie cooling himself off after playtime by lying flat against the cool cage bars
Winnie’s ears turn bright pink whenever he’s hot :-)

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Mornings ..

June 22nd, 2009

.. in the chinchilla room:

Winnie hammock

Winnie in his hammock

Tubby tube

Tubby in his tube

O how so quiet (compared to how they are at night: jumping up & down, cage bar chewing ..) :-)

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Good News

April 26th, 2009

The fur on Tubby’s tail has fully grown back! Took a lot of loving & affection :-)

Tubby's tail

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Bored Tubby ..

April 15th, 2009

Tubby bored

Sorry, Tubby! Your human slave has been busy lately. I promise to give you lots of play time by the end of the month :-(

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Vischaca

March 20th, 2009

Boyfriend has a background picture of Machu Picchu on his computer. So I casually mentioned to him that Machu Picchu is where Tubby & Winnie’s cousins are from. He gave me the weirdest look; after all these times of owning 2 chinchillas, he had always thought that the Andes mountain (where chinchillas are from) is geographically located somewhere near India & Nepal 0_o

Then, he curiously searched for “Machu Picchu chinchilla” and he found a bunch of travel pictures of ‘chinchillas’ residing in the Machu Picchu ruins. When he shared the search results with me, I remember of another creature my friend had emailed me about; those are not pictures of ‘chinchillas’ residing in Machu Picchu, but they are Vischacas! They’re close cousins of chinchillas, no wonder people mistakenly believe that they are in fact chinchillas!

One of these days I do want to make a trip to Chile’s part of the Andes mountain, where Tubby is from; and then I’m going to throw some raisins at the wild chinchillas* ;-)

*I’m just saying; don’t do this because it’ll only make the wild animals dependent on humans & it’ll just make it harder for them to survive on their own in their natural habitat.

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Lollipop

March 12th, 2009

Call my [Tubby] lollipop
Tell you why
Cause he’s sweeter than apple pie
.. I call him
Lollipop lollipop
Oh lolli lolli lolli

Tubby is the best!

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Puberty?

February 13th, 2009

I’ve been meaning to upload the videos that I took with my phone. One of them is of Winnie, ehem, cleaning himself. I assure you that Winnie didn’t ‘perform’ on my hand. I’ve trained him so that he doesn’t play with my hand anymore. A quick warning, the content of this video might be a bit offensive and can’t be viewed by immature chinnies :-)

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Tubby Peed on Me!

February 2nd, 2009

Yes he did!

I was cleaning the bottom shelf of Tubby’s cage with Tubby still on the upper shelf when I started feeling something warm trickling down my forehead … Tubby had peed on me!

It was gross! I had to wash my hair for the second time today.

Nevertheless, I still love Tubby :-D

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Return After Holiday

January 12th, 2009

Returned to Stateside on Wednesday, but didn’t reach home until Thursday. It was nice to see all the animals again! I was busy cleaning, unpacking, cleaning, and more unpacking.

I bought a bunch of treats from the Tiny Island. I bought this lavender dust bath for the hammies, but they didn’t know what to do with it!! Instead, they just peed in it 0_o
They love the new treats though! I also bought this new wooden box where I put treats in it and the hammies have to figure out how to open it & get to the treats. So far, only Brain figured out how to open the box. The Robos only bit the wooden box and the Syrians are completely clueless. The (hired) petsitter didn’t know that my hammies like to hoard food. So, she kept refilling their food bowls thinking that they’re running out of food! But when I was cleaning their cages, I found food hidden inside the beddings .. that’s why Brain, Dee Dee, the Robos, and the Syrians all gained weight.

Sad news for Tubby though .. I think I’ve spoiled him with 30 minutes+ daily of out-of-the-cage playtime. When I was gone, he was down to 15 minutes for every 2 days. Even though I filled his cage with apple sticks & perches, lava ledge, lots of hay, & other chew things, he must have been bored out of his mind. He chewed off some of the fur on his tail, leaving a bald patch :-(

Tubby's tail1

I’ve been playing with him a lot since I got home and I’m not going to leave Tubby for that long again ..

ps: Winnie is fine and dandy though. Maybe because he’s used to not being let out at all from his days at the breeder.

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