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Subject: BS: Hamsters From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull Date: 03 Nov 03 - 07:25 PM hamsters.john |
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Subject: RE: BS: Hamsters From: Ebbie Date: 03 Nov 03 - 08:26 PM Run. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Hamsters From: Peace Date: 03 Nov 03 - 08:37 PM Stampede? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Hamsters From: artbrooks Date: 03 Nov 03 - 08:40 PM Less than a pound dressed out. Not worth the trouble. Get a cat. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Hamsters From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull Date: 03 Nov 03 - 08:58 PM tig got a new hamster, called Chloe. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Hamsters From: Ebbie Date: 03 Nov 03 - 09:35 PM Good for you, John. Many happy days to you both. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Hamsters From: LadyJean Date: 04 Nov 03 - 12:06 AM The biggest fight my parents ever had was when my father put the hamster in with the hamstress. It resulted in five hamlets, and mother was mad for days! Now, if you want a rodent for a pet, I reccomend a fancy rat. They're cleaner, more intelligent, and much friendlier. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Hamsters From: GUEST,Ely Date: 04 Nov 03 - 12:18 AM I prefer rats and guinea pigs. Bigger, yes, but much more intelligent; they have a bigger range of emotions between "asleep" and "biting the crap out of your fingers". |
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Subject: RE: BS: Hamsters From: GUEST,.gargoyle Date: 04 Nov 03 - 01:18 AM Gerbels john Gerbels
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Subject: RE: BS: Hamsters From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull Date: 04 Nov 03 - 02:43 AM It's Gerbils gargoyle, learn to spell.johm |
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Subject: RE: BS: Hamsters From: Wilfried Schaum Date: 04 Nov 03 - 02:48 AM Why not rabbits? If you're fed up with them you can feed the family with them. Wilfried |
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Subject: RE: BS: Hamsters From: Metchosin Date: 04 Nov 03 - 02:58 AM nyah, hamsters bite and make you bleed....rats don't bite, are friendlier, more affectionate and easier to find if they get out of their cages.....but they are harder on the budgerigars. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Hamsters From: Roger the Skiffler Date: 04 Nov 03 - 04:03 AM Are this band playing in Hull, JOhn ? RtS9) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Hamsters From: open mike Date: 04 Nov 03 - 04:55 AM their page says they do play at the springhead in Hull |
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Subject: RE: BS: Hamsters From: Dave Bryant Date: 04 Nov 03 - 05:15 AM LadyJean, I'm surprises that there wasn't a bloody fight in the cage. Hamsters are not very social and the females are much more territorial than the males. It's therefore usual practise to put the female in with male - otherwise the female will attack. John - you've left it a bit late this year if you want to fatten it up for christmas. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Hamsters From: GUEST,Crystal Date: 04 Nov 03 - 06:36 AM I had a hamster with an unholy attraction to bras. You took the little sod out and he'd be up your arm and down your top in seconds. On the plus side they swing from the cage bars! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Hamsters From: Dave Bryant Date: 04 Nov 03 - 06:55 AM It took a lot of training to get him to do that - It's just a pity that the battery on the micro-minature video camera didn't last longer ! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Hamsters From: GUEST,MMario Date: 04 Nov 03 - 08:45 AM rats don't bite? since when? Guinea Pigs are the best or the rodentia for pets as far as I'm concerned. But don't believe those tales of "They don't climb" - they are perfectly capable of it! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Hamsters From: Mrs.Duck Date: 04 Nov 03 - 11:17 AM We have two chinese hamsters called Bill and Ben. Trouble is they are so alike we keep saying 'is it Bill or is it Ben?' They have their own flowerpots too!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Hamsters From: Little Hawk Date: 04 Nov 03 - 12:32 PM Hamsters...always a delightful subject. Most of the hamsters I've ever known did not bite...but some do. I think it depends partly on the vibes you send them and how well they know you. If a hamster did not bite Clinton Hammond, for instance, I would be very surprised. :-) - LH |
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Subject: RE: BS: Hamsters From: Gillie Date: 04 Nov 03 - 07:15 PM I was one of the first to meet Chole!! Delightful, if a little shy! Farthing (kitten) thought she was wonderful (Magician) Gillie |
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Subject: RE: BS: Hamsters From: LadyJean Date: 04 Nov 03 - 11:53 PM They did fight, and then they made hamlets. I was 6 at the time, and was not allowed to watch. We had a long haired male cat, who liked to sit on top of the hamster cage. One day the hamster got fed up with him, and bit his bottom. Long haired male cats, while very affectionate, and very good natured, are very dumb. Things like that happen to them. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Hamsters From: Sorcha Date: 05 Nov 03 - 12:20 AM ROF, here, LadyJean! How funny!!! Personally, I like whistle/guinea pigs, but I have cats.....and the cages need cleaning too often for me. And, actually, the rats bred for Lab Rats make pretty nice pets. NOT so for the huge 'sewer rat' type......no thank you very much......AND---get your rodentia VACCINATED FOR RABIES!!!!! (ps--can you spay/neuter a rodent? if so, you should.....no more hamlets) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Hamsters From: The Fooles Troupe Date: 05 Nov 03 - 02:01 AM Thank Goodness! nobody has mentioned Duct Tape so far in this thread... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Hamsters From: hesperis Date: 05 Nov 03 - 03:14 AM Duct tape is good for keeping the cage door closed. But they'll chew through the duct tape too. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Hamsters From: Roger the Skiffler Date: 05 Nov 03 - 03:56 AM ...to get back to music: the Hamsters always pack Jagz, they're appearing there next Thursday 13th November. RtS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Hamsters From: Dave Bryant Date: 05 Nov 03 - 05:07 AM Gillie - your spelling of Chloe proves that John's spelling problems are actually contagious - perhaps hamsters act as the carriers ! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Hamsters From: Tig Date: 05 Nov 03 - 09:11 AM Don't know where jOhn found the name Chloe. Her name is Globe and she is a pretty little white and smokey fawn colour. She is providing hours of entertainment for the cat population who sit on the chair arm watching her! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Hamsters From: Little Hawk Date: 05 Nov 03 - 05:47 PM Now if she gets on the exercise wheel, she'll be a globetrotter! - LH |
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Subject: RE: BS: Hamsters From: Cluin Date: 05 Nov 03 - 11:05 PM Gerbils, eh garg? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Hamsters From: GUEST,.gargoyle Date: 06 Nov 03 - 08:50 PM Duct-tape.
Sincerely, |
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Subject: RE: BS: Hamsters From: GUEST Date: 06 Nov 03 - 10:01 PM http://www.oceanbluepools.com/hamster/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Hamsters From: Tig Date: 07 Nov 03 - 03:39 PM She got a new haster house to sleep in today and one of those hamster balls to run round in so that she can now terrorise the cats by chasing THEM around the floor! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Hamsters From: Peace Date: 07 Nov 03 - 07:39 PM Delicious! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Hamsters From: open mike Date: 07 Nov 03 - 08:58 PM chinchillas |
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Subject: RE: BS: Hamsters From: LadyJean Date: 08 Nov 03 - 12:27 AM I hadn't thought of this for a long time. When I was in high school, the hamster from the biology lab got loose, and found it's way into the library, where the librarian (who hated animals) found it nibbling on a book. Having returned the recalcitrant rodent to the bio teacher, she put a sign up on the library door, "No Hamsters Allowed." She put it close to the floor, so passing hamsters could read it. We didn't have the internet in those days, so I don't know what the poor hamsters did when they had to do research papers. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Hamsters From: Mooh Date: 08 Nov 03 - 09:05 PM ...make pretty good musky and pike bait, thrashing around on the surface the way they do, especially since it's difficult to find a bait shop that sells ducklings. Mooh. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Hamsters From: The Fooles Troupe Date: 08 Nov 03 - 09:39 PM LadyJean, your librarian obviously had a subtle sense of humour. :-) Robin |
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Subject: RE: BS: Hamsters From: Little Hawk Date: 08 Nov 03 - 09:51 PM Most animals hate librarians too. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Hamsters From: Wilfried Schaum Date: 10 Nov 03 - 02:12 AM LadyJean - now if that wasn't a good one! Shall tell it to my fellow librarians. Little Hawk - objection! Horatio and Little Max, dogs in the neighbourhood, love me intensely. It might be another case with the bird I chased off when I caught it building a nest in the shelves. Wilfried |
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Subject: RE: BS: Hamsters From: Cluin Date: 10 Nov 03 - 07:51 PM Rats! They're all rats! Now where'd I put that Warfarin so the kids wouldn't get into it?... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Hamsters From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 10 Nov 03 - 08:58 PM My experience with hamsters is limited to the two of them that my son had as a child. The first one was obtained from a friend whose own hamsters had a litter. It had been handled and played with by humans from an early age and it never bit anyone. When it died we replaced it with one bought from a pet store. Bad mistake. It was the rodent from hell. Even the kids were glad when the thing died. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Hamsters From: Peace Date: 10 Nov 03 - 09:56 PM They taste OK with a sharp sauce, moderate amount of garlic and just a dash of red wine--no more than a three. Watch for the legs, however, because they can cause one to choke. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Hamsters From: Melani Date: 11 Nov 03 - 03:01 AM I now have four rats. I highly recommend them as pets. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Hamsters From: Little Hawk Date: 11 Nov 03 - 01:30 PM Just remember not to put adult hamsters in the same cage. They don't all bite people, but they sure will bite each other. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Hamsters From: Bill D Date: 11 Nov 03 - 02:16 PM Robin.. you reveal things about yourself by mentioning duct tape in a hamsters thread..*grin* |
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Subject: RE: BS: Hamsters From: jimmyt Date: 11 Nov 03 - 02:29 PM Guest Crystal, Your opinion that Hamsters have an unnatural attraction for bras, in that if allowed they will go right up your arm in search of a bra..........reminds me of my teenage years, and as much as I try to remember, doesn't seem the bra was my optimim destination. I never cared for them necessarily when they were off, oh well, it was the 60's go figure! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Hamsters From: Clinton Hammond Date: 11 Nov 03 - 02:30 PM A 'pet' that's cheeper to replace than feed... Have you noticed that a lot of pet stores keep hamsters, next to the white mice and the crickets? Know why? Cause they're not pets, they're food for REAL pets! A bunch of years a go, a chums hamster was killed by a viewing of John Carpenters "Prince Of Darkness"... Read into that what you will... we sure did! If I was ever gonna get a hamster, I'd have to spend about a million bucks on miles and miles of "Habbi-trail" tubing, and run it all over the house... I think that'd be pretty cool.... :-) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Hamsters From: Little Hawk Date: 11 Nov 03 - 03:51 PM The Habitrail stuff costs a fortune, but it is entertaining. I used to feed the hamster through cardboard tubing from paper towl rolls. But my ultimate dream...I have always wanted to use hamsters to crew a radio-controlled sailboat and get them out on the pond in a brisk wind. I can just picture the little guys hiking out over the windward side as she rips along on a blazing starboard tack. Ditto for radio-controlled cars, larger slot cars, and airplanes...not to mention model rockets. Hamsters in S-P-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-C-E!!!!!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Hamsters From: Clinton Hammond Date: 11 Nov 03 - 04:20 PM Oh ya... but -I'M- cruel and heartless... Heh |
