Baked Hamster~

A couple years ago my friend got a dwarf hamster! I would go over and just love on that little hamster! I thought that they were sooooo cute and sooooo much fun! I am not a bid rodent person either. It took about hmmm I would say a couple of years before I actually got one. I got him for a Christmas present about 2 years ago. I loved him sooo much. I named him Hammiechok which is Russian for hamster. Hammie for short. :o) He stayed in my room with me for almost 2 years. But recently I could not take the mess and the smell so I decided to move him into our back room. I moved him there about I would say 2 weeks ago. So the day before yesterday L took him out to play with him and he looked so terrible!!! His eyes were swollen and he was a skinny little hamster skeleton. He obviously was VERY sick. The poor think we had no idea what was wrong with him. So we called the pet store to see what was wrong with him and all they said was that he was getting old and he was probably going to die. I TOTALLY knew that was not the reason he was sick. Before I got my hamster I did MAJOR research on everything about them. After a little bit we realized that he was in a location with 2 windows where the shades were always open and in the HOTTEST room in the house. Plus he has a plastic cage which does not circulate cool air through his cage! Then I look up his symptoms on the computer and find that we are LITERALLY baking our poor hamster!!!!!!!!!!! We IMMEDIATELY moved him. Like 2 seconds after we moved him he started eating agian! WE WERE SOoOoOoOoO relieved. HE is now the most fat hamster you have ever seen. Hee Hee!

Here is a hamster tjp. NEVER PUT YOUR HAMSTER IN A HOT AREA! Or you will end up with a baked hamster! :o)