Socks: Mouseworks Dynamic Cardboard Redesign and Basic Tunneling

[Socks' Mum]

Socks: The weekly cage trashing...
Mom: ...Cleaning ...
Socks: The weekly cage trashing came round early this week on Saturday
Mom: I tried to avoid collapsing Socks' sweet little best tunnel and annex but I had to get him out and
Socks: She picked me up in the middle of a lot of bedding and everything came tumbling down into a jumblement.
Mom: I think that's the technical term for it. We won't mention the wet bedding as that has been changed for clean, dry Fitch.
Socks: Mom and I caught up at 4am for a play pen session. Remember Mom?
Mom: I think the guinea pigs worry Socks a bit. He stops his wheel and leans out to listen when they rustle about. They are very quiet at night and graze very softly or snooze all night.
Socks: It's nice to have a 1:1 session with Mom but that means coming out when things are quiet. I can tell when she is sleeping lightly and wait near the door to get her attention.
Mom: I think hamsters are far better kept as only pets or at least in a room with no other animals, unless it's other hamsters or possibly smaller rodents such as gerbils. People talk about ghost hamsters, perhaps that's why some hamsters are more reticent. I think if they get used to other animals when they are very young, that might work. Socks looked so sweet in the moonshine. It was a very special time, worth getting up for.
Socks: The moonshine shone directly onto my wheel. I ran in tight circles around my wheel and did a few laps through the cardboard tunnels before jumping on the wheel for a spin.
Mom: I was great to see Socks' paws flying as he raced on his wheel ❤

 

[Maz]

Flying paws

 

[Socks' Mum]

Saturday came round and a familiar noise disturbed my sleep.
Mom: Socks was in his nest with a pecan nut nearby for convenience. The rest of his hoard was near his loo, a little too close to it unfortunately.
Socks: For convenience... Well when you're old you don't feel like getting up in the day to go too far, do you?
Mom: I carefully kept the pecan nut to return to Socks later.
Socks: Mom's nice, isn't she?
Mom: Socks sniffed at my fingers gently and bowed his head for a few seconds. Eventually he got out of bed and I could carefully lift him into a small carrier to weigh him. His weight appears to be stable.
Socks: Good news
Mom: He is fragile and his legs tend to splay if he isn't supported properly when climbing out of a tunnel or from my hand into his veggie bowl or a platform.
Socks: Mom noticed that I caught my hip on my way down the roof hole of my cardboard multi-chamber house, although it is nice and wide, so she built up the bedding to make a ramp and puts my veggies bowl on the bedding instead of on the house roof now. She's nice, isn't she ❤ I get porridge for dinner a few times a week, flax seeds and Science Selective hamster food to supplement my diet as well as a small piece of cooked sweet potato or butternut squash.
Mom: Socks is looking very handsome.
Mom and Socks: ❤

 

[Maz]

Aw sorry to hear Socks is showing signs of ageing in his back legs. I'm sure he'll appreciate the assistance with the changes

 

[Socks' Mum]

Yes, he still uses his wheels and scoots quickly around his playpen but avoids climbing now. The monkey barring of his youth is over now ❤

 

[Socks' Mum]

Strangely, this morning I was dozing at about 3am when I heard a strange, low pitched metallic twanging sound. It was Socks, he had climbed the door of his Omlet cage all the way to the roof I collected him in his tube taxi and we had a nice session in the playpen

 

[Maz]

He's a clever boy.

 

[Lovelyness]

Strangely, this morning I was dozing at about 3am when I heard a strange, low pitched metallic twanging sound. It was Socks, he had climbed the door of his Omlet cage all the way to the roof I collected him in his tube taxi and we had a nice session in the playpen

Just to prove you wrong lol

 

[Socks' Mum]

Socks: Mom has moved my cage because the weather is getting a bit colder. It's near the heater.
Mom: The playpen is between my bed and Socks' cage
Socks: She lies in bed and watches me on my wheel and talks to me and sings songs while staying warm.
Mom: but once or twice I have fallen asleep
Socks: I was left sitting in the cold
Mom: I've got better at not doing that though.
Socks: I can take a while to warm up on my wheel. My back paws almost slipped off the other night. I enjoy my playpen sessions though.
Mom: He comes running across the cage to climb onto the cage door. Then he gets into the taxi tube very carefully. Now it's only a matter of lifting him down a few inches.
Socks: I miss Blossom
Mom: She was lovely
Socks: She's a little star now.
Mom: A hamstar
Socks: Hamsters are made to see the stars in a special way. They light our life and guide us by night.
Socks and Mom: Here's to remembering good friends and old friends ❤

 

[Lovelyness]

Aww I like that…a little hamstar I miss Blossom too

 

[Maz]

It’s lovely - hamstar