Oops, I Did it Again!

Feb 12

Written By Rachel

I rescued another hamster, that is!

Oscar, my rescue Roborovski hamster, has been struggling with getting around for the past few months and it seems to be getting progressively worse lately. He lived in his giant, Niteangel Vista size L enclosure for a few weeks before I moved him back into his bin when he was having some undiagnosed health problems we (my vet & I) couldn’t get to the bottom of. I was trying to limit down anything that might have been new in his environment (as he was suddenly very itchy), so I moved him back into his bin cage set up that I had kept still intact.

Oscar also generally seemed happier to be in his bin cage again. He’s always been a shy ham, but in his bin cage he was coming out more and seemed to be more at ease. After several months, now back in his 200 qt bin cage, I’m not sure I see him moving back into the Vista anytime soon.

SO, with an empty, giant hamster cage that I had recently disinfected and set back up for when Oscar was ready, I thought, “what a waste that some hamster who needs a home isn’t living in this!'“

Lately I’ve found myself on Facebook more, perusing my hamster groups and looking for good deals on used hamster cages (haha, it never ends), and I saw a post from Mel’s Neighborhood Rodent Rescue (https://www.melsneighborhood.com/ ) saying she’d be in my area with a bunch of cute faces looking for homes!

I had been missing having a dwarf hamster, and when I saw the “Hernan” bunch, I knew I had to help one out!

He’s only been with me for about 24 hours so far, but he seemed to get around the Niteangel cage just fine and spent a LOT of the night running on the Niteangel Dark Clouds wheel. He’s still a tiny little thing (probably smaller than Oscar!) so I gave him the 8” size for now (although I also have the 10”! haha of course I do!).

Still debating on a name. So far I am thinking…

Maurice

Frederick

Richard

Claude

Timothy

Theodore

…

(probably many more ideas…! What do you think?)