Bernard

[RainbowBrite]

Aww! What a cutie. I just showed this picture to my partner and he loved it too. I would enter this in hamster of the month next year.

Is that a sunflower? I remember you wanted to buy some.

 

[Maz]

As someone else used to say "Squeeeeeee!". That is so cute lol! Little Bernard on his tippy toes. He looks like he's inspecting the edge of the cage rather than the water bottle.

 

[Maz]

Aww! What a cutie. I just showed this picture to my partner and he loved it too. I would enter this in hamster of the month next year.

Is that a sunflower? I remember you wanted to buy some.

Goodness when you said "next year" I had to think for a moment!

 

[Maz]

I can't see a sunflower?

 

[RainbowBrite]

I can't see a sunflower?

Maybe it is not one. Its the thing in the left side thats standing up.

Who used to say squee?

 

[Maz]

Another hamster owner from some time back I think a few used to do it.

 

[Maz]

It was a kind of expression at a cute hamster when there were no other words, type thing. Probably equivalent to super super cute but with a yell at the time time lol.

 

[Member ID2]

It's the cork tunnel on the left. The light is poor and the red fairy lights above the cage are switched on.

 

[Member ID2]

If he's not standing tip toes in a few weeks, then he has grown.
He's chunky but short.

 

[Member ID2]

There's another expression i remember, "twee" but can't remember what it meant.

 

[Maz]

Twee is a bit more derogatory I think in some ways. Like "too" cute an expression. Maybe squeeeee is twee lol.

That's why he's so cute - because he's chunky but short.

 

[Maz]

Here you go - definition of Twee from Collins dictionary

"If you say that something is twee, it is pretty or sentimental in a way that you think is excessive or silly."

 

[Maz]

It's an adorable picture of Bernard anyway!

 

[RainbowBrite]

Twee is an old term. I remember it being used to describe clothing. I thought you meant 'twee' had a different meaning. Lol.

 

[Member ID2]

That's the thing. I couldn't remember the meaning of twee but now that you looked up the definition, a memory has come back.

 

[Member ID2]

Well, twee has nothing to do with Bernard, so maybe he's Squeeee

 

[RainbowBrite]

Bernard is definitely squeeee!

 

[Maz]

Perhaps we'd better not say that too loudly. Bernard may think it's a bit naff if he's a gungo ho energetic young man lol.

 

[Member ID2]

Bernard sniffs at the bottle and then goes to the bowl. Finley also drinks from a bowl ignoring the bottle and Scottie uses both, bowl and bottle.
Just shows that hamsters should have both, a bowl and a bottle available to them.

 

[RainbowBrite]

It is so cute how they all have their preferences. Orko uses the bowl then goes straight to the bottle. I wonder if any other robos do that.