Another birthday come and gone.
I order to spare both any embarrassment, I suggested husband that, as a gift, we'd take a day off and spend it in Venice (I'd never been).
Overall it was a great idea (no crowds!), despite the fact that it rained most of the time and that almost everything was closed.
I ended coming home with a sort of (sadly unwanted by everyone involved) gift:
our niece was given by her asshole father (who quit her mom 3 months after the kid was born) a couple of Robo hamsters. Of course male and female. The niece was totally uninterested from day 2. The hamsters recently became 7 (surprise!). I managed to find households for the father, 4 young ones, but now my niece and her family are going on vacation and they were going to simply toss away the remaining two.
I know it's a horror story, and since I could not stand the thought, I ended up being the brand new owner of two Robo hamsters. In a couple weeks hopefully I'll be able to tell if Junior is a male or female - and let's hope it's a girl, otherwise I'll have to think something.
We came home with the two (Meatball and Junior) last night and I've cleaned the cage, fed them fresh veggies and seeds, and I just ordered a big enlargement for their cage which shall be delivered tomorrow, as well as a new (hopefully quieter) wheel/spin. More toys to be added during the weekend.
Trouble is, I'm a sucker for pets and I cannot stand to see animals in a cage :-(
I order to spare both any embarrassment, I suggested husband that, as a gift, we'd take a day off and spend it in Venice (I'd never been).
Overall it was a great idea (no crowds!), despite the fact that it rained most of the time and that almost everything was closed.
I ended coming home with a sort of (sadly unwanted by everyone involved) gift:
our niece was given by her asshole father (who quit her mom 3 months after the kid was born) a couple of Robo hamsters. Of course male and female. The niece was totally uninterested from day 2. The hamsters recently became 7 (surprise!). I managed to find households for the father, 4 young ones, but now my niece and her family are going on vacation and they were going to simply toss away the remaining two.
I know it's a horror story, and since I could not stand the thought, I ended up being the brand new owner of two Robo hamsters. In a couple weeks hopefully I'll be able to tell if Junior is a male or female - and let's hope it's a girl, otherwise I'll have to think something.
We came home with the two (Meatball and Junior) last night and I've cleaned the cage, fed them fresh veggies and seeds, and I just ordered a big enlargement for their cage which shall be delivered tomorrow, as well as a new (hopefully quieter) wheel/spin. More toys to be added during the weekend.
Trouble is, I'm a sucker for pets and I cannot stand to see animals in a cage :-(
2 comments:
Oh no. I guess it could be worse like something with a longer life span.
Not gonna lie - when I read ‘Robo hamster’, I initially thought you were talking about some king of robotic toy pet. Then I got super confused when you said they’d bred. Whoops. I should really finish my morning coffee before I check blogs!
If Junior is a male, is it possible to get one of them spayed/neutered? I really have no idea how it works with pocket pets.
But good on you for taking them in, and even more so for taking steps to improve their quality of life. I can’t even imagine how someone could consider just ‘tossing them away’. Surely there’d at least be a rescue around to rehome them?!
xx
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