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At the weekend, while we were up north visiting parents, we took a short detour to Tranmere to collect some hamsters. These were Winter Whites from someone from the Hamster Heaven forum.

We arrived at Simon's house on saturday afternoon to find two tubs of hamsters in the hallway - one with boy hamsters and the other girl hamsters. Emma wanted the sapphire, so we chose him and two of the other boys. One of the hamsters was standing on his hind legs (like Rory Calhoun) so Emma put her hand into the tub to pick him up when four of the other hamsters leapt onto her hand. They certainly aren't afraid of being handled and will readily climb into your hand (unlike our Roborovski who will try to hide if you put your hand into the cage).

We already had names ready for them (Archie, Theo and Reggie). All we had to do was decide which was which: Archie is the Sapphire, Reggie is the slower sleepier one and Theo is the slightly hyper one (although still less hyper than either of our robos).