Chinese Mousiness

Friday, 5 January 2007
Chinese Mousiness
Mood: cheeky
Now Playing: with the Beijing Opera
Topic: Chinese Mouse

Okay, skip this posting if you're not into hamsters...

Chinese Hammy Photo Gallery Links.

So you can understand why I call my pet "Mousey" when he's a hammy...

And to see what he looks like—

Click the following links herebelow...

http://goto.glocalnet.net/natal/ham/chinese.htm — I'm putting this one at top because Benji looks just like my Mousey. Note the platypus-tail. That's his gonads under there.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Hamster — the original and best Wikipedia description. The hammy illustrated, though is a "white spotted," whereas mine comes in normal natural colour. To see a rather unflattering snap of what he actually looks like (when stressed) click below. My hammy's on the left.

http://www.petwebsite.com/hamsters/chinese_hamsters.htm — my Mousey's pictured on the left.

http://uk.ask.com/web?q=pictures+of+chinese+hamsters&qsrc=1&o=322&l=dir&dm=all — a gallery of gleddymousey pixx, including one newborn...

http://www.aub.dk/~zannie/hamster/dwarf.htm — a whole gaggle of dwarf hammies, Chinese included...

http://www.hamsterhideout.com/breedschinese.html — another comparison; a gledwood one and a white...

http://www.hamsterific.com/ChineseHamster.cfm — "a Chinese hamster is sometimes called a Mouster"...

http://www.midlandhamsterclub.co.uk/hamster/chinese.html — the (UK) Midlands Hamster Club has some really good online info for glorified-rat-with-pouches-o-files...

http://members.shaw.ca/petitepaws/chdwf.html — a photo of a Mummy with really cute babies. The accompanying text is particularly perceptive for anyone thinking of buying a pet or wanting tips on handling. These animals are very easy to keep but you need to know e.g. they're extremely shortsighted, they orient themselves by sound, whisker-impressions and smell, etc etc just some things that seem very obvious when you know the animals but may take some getting acquainted with...

OK this is my last hammy link but one:—

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http://en.allexperts.com/q/Gerbils-Hamsters-2005/Wobbly-Chinese-Hamster.htm — this Q&As page for all rodent-lovers is pretty much here for my own reference...

Of the hamster types available as pets I've had loads of Syrians (mostly as a kid) though about ten years ago I had my famous golden hamster Pandable (named after the big black poppy eyes). He was much loved. My Aussie friends (who come from a country where hamsters are banned to prevent the influx of nonindigenous vermin) said he looked like a cartoon character! Pandable lived to the glorious (for a hamster) age of 3½. Four people came to his funeral (let's face it, that's more than many humans get) and sang All Things Bright and Beautiful. The hymn wasn't my idea (I love my pets but I'm not THAT soppy) but it was a beautiful song. A couple of years ago I had a Campbells and a Siberian winter white living together. Unfortunately the winter white died (of old age, I suspect; I bought them from a dodgy shop) and the Campbells, who was a tiny baby when I got him, was still grooming his dead housemate's fur, which was heartbreaking... Anyway my Campbells Condensed eventually ran to the wheel in the sky and now I have the Chinese Mouse who is the tamest pet rodent I've ever had bar none. If I pick him out of his nest (he has FIVE nests, lazy swine!) sleeping, cup my hand round him so just his head's poking out, he v often continues to doze, he likes to be stroked on his furry forehead... then eventually he wakes with a start, realizes he's not in bed and decides to go for a ramble. When he's determined to move there's no stopping this animal, but most of the time, I have to say (just as Wikipedia put it ) he does display an endearing gentleness of character. Remember I mentioned a disappointing attempted photo session because I just could not capture his true likeness... well the picture of Benji (click http://goto.glocalnet.net/natal/ham/chinese.htm) does sum up some of the Chinese hammy warmth of personality.

The only hammies I've never owned are Roborovski dwarves. Have a click on this: http://goto.glocalnet.net/natal/ham/raborov.htm they are tiny! And you can keep hoardes of 'em together! Which is so entertaining. Especially when you have one running the wheel one way and then another gets on, determined to go for a spin in the opposite direction...!




Posted by gledwood at 7:48 PM GMT
Updated: Saturday, 6 January 2007 12:55 AM GMT
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Saturday, 6 January 2007 - 2:15 AM GMT

Name: "chipper"
Home Page: http://playingwithfire.blogdrive.com

Your hamster myust be cute! The pictures are adorable. Wow, I should have a pet. I miss my cat. I lost him in the divorce (like just about everything else ...).

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Saturday, 6 January 2007 - 5:13 PM GMT

Name: "Gledwood"
Home Page: http://gledwood.tripod.com/blog
E-Mail: hammynutter@lycos.com

Well you should get a kitten then. I'd have a cat if I had room. I went for a mouster mainly because he is so little (he was smaller than a clipper lighter when I bought him) and can live in a 10"x10"x18" glass box (fishtank) no problem. Obviously if you're going to have both animals you need enough room to shut hammy away so I can't really do this, also I'm in a room without direct access to the street or back garden. (I know some Americans keep house cats, but that's v unusual here. People like to let their cats out.) I used to have a cat in my teens. She was born in our house because our friends' cat was pregnant and staying (I can't recall why Kitty would have been at our house but she was) she gave birth to a clutch of kittens. We took the smallest one, brown all over called Coco. Because we had her since birth I knew her since she was absolutely tiny. She used to sit up in the palm of my hand (hamster size) and climb up my jeans with her claws to get to me. She was very tame. I taught her to lie down like a baby and go to sleep (I'd never had a cat before so I didn't see how odd this was). When she got older she went jet black. (Black cats are supposed to be lucky here, but they're unlucky in some other places (like Portugual, I think).) Yeah, I would have another cat if I could. I like dogs too but dogs are one hell of a responsibility. I used to know a Rottweiler called Chiquita (what a name for a 14 stone dog!) Even the police said she was well behaved ... (our police used to use dogs a LOT, but you don't see so much of them these days). Oh man I've got lost in my own typing... I said all I wanted to, surely...

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Saturday, 6 January 2007 - 5:16 PM GMT

Name: "Gledwood"
Home Page: http://gledwood.tripod.com/blog
E-Mail: hammynutter@lycos.com

Oh yeah, I was going to say if I had a dog I'd want a Rottweiler if it was anything like that one... they're very expensive though... £400-£800 I think.

The Day After the Crazy Night Before

The Day After the Crazy Night Before...
Mood: spacey
Now Playing: Still Exhaustedly, I'm afraid...
Topic: Daily Doings

Wow! Check out the reply I got from The Sun's agony aunt "Dear Deidre" below. I emailed in asking for any good or unusual links she might have for my website, so the reply you see is what she wrote (unedited) below. I've always wanted to include some very basic info on the drugs from an unbiased source so the cyber-leaflet she sent me (it came attached as a Word document) seems as good as any. I want to emphasize I've pasted it up here exactly as it came for public information.

I still didn't sleep too brilliantly last night. There was madness in our house in the form of the prostitute's boyfriend going so deranged on crack he was howling at one point like a wild animal. All the money had obviously gone and she was imploring him to be "allowed" to keep her mobile phone... else that, too, would have gone up in smoke.

There's not much more I can say about crack. I've been into the madness also. It's not pretty. It's not special. It's just a morass, a mess, a living hell.

On a lighter note, I've wanted to post a picture of my Chinese hammy and haven't been able to do it; but I've found one. If you click on: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Hamster you'll see my Little Mousey in white. The beady eyes show beautifully in that photo...

I'll leave it here. Take care folks. — Gleds.





Posted by gledwood at 4:02 PM GMT
Updated: Friday, 5 January 2007 10:54 PM GMT

Good Morning

Thursday, 4 January 2007
Good Morning
Mood: chillin'
Now Playing: Barely Consciously...
Topic: Chinese Mouse
Good morning everyone. I am sat here rather tired out and nicotine-deprived. Mousey's in his nest. The proper one with cotton wool and sawdust, not the one called my elbow. -ey by the way is not to be confused with Mousie, my French friend who you will see leaving messages in here. I think French Mousie has always known about the Chinese Mousey. I wish I could introduce them. But my scanning abilities are rather dire and my last attempted rodent photo session was a disaster. I got loads of close-ups of a hammy with a dead worried face. (Yes, even hamsters can look worried. I have the proof on Mother Hubbard's mobile phone.) Perhaps one day I will manage to get a nice picture of the Chinese Mouse and I'll email it to the magickal village of Plumpiemousie where the midnight colours are inverted and all is funky, yet never druggie. Such an amazing place...


Posted by gledwood at 9:59 AM GMT
Updated: Thursday, 4 January 2007 10:10 AM GMT
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Thursday, 4 January 2007 - 10:26 AM GMT

Name: "Holly Blue"


Morning Gledwood.....I've just been doing a bit on my blog too. I don't know if you've noticed I've added a link to stuff that inspires me...I know you're collecting inspiring stuff so wondered if you wanna take a look??....it might do the same for you. Let me know what you think.

Have a good day...Give mousie a cuddle from me! HBE:)

PS.....you can always e-mail me your comments if you'd rather my address is holly-blueeyes@hotmail.co.uk


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Thursday, 4 January 2007 - 11:10 AM GMT

Name: "Gledwood"


I'm just about to view those inspirations.

I can't really "cuddle" the Mouse, bc he is so tiny. I held him cupped in my hand this morning actually. He sits there peering out. Not moving. And this morning he sat there I was rubbing his head between his beady black eyes and this actually made him fall asleep! (I don't know if I could sleep if a finger the size of a telephone kiosk tried poking ME between the eyes, but there you go.)

Hmmm. Well I'm off. Bye! Gleds

Little Mousey

Mood: lyricalNow Playing: Soppy MoodTopic: Chinese Mouse
LITTLE MOUSEY
(Even wino crackhead heroin junkies love their pets.)
"LITTLE MOUSEY"
Best performed by children's choir to the tune of "Little Donkey" with triangle, castanets and swanee whistle accompaniment.
LITTLE MOUSEY
Little Mousey... Little Mousey are you
keeping warm?
Little Mousey... Little Mousey shelters
from the storm.
Outside it is cold and wet.
Raining... Raining...
Haven't you got out of bed yet?
Lazy... Mousey!
Little Mousey... Little Mousey, I will
keep you safe.
Little Mousey... Little Mousey;
tiny but so brave!
Rambling and pinging time.
Naughty... Mousey...
He's escaped the Little Swine.
Naughty... Mousey...
Little Mousey... Little Mousey...
In your nest of fur.
Little Mouse, escape the kitten;
in her dream she'll purr.
Dream of catching Little Mousey.
So I'll reprimand her!
You are my entertainer....;-)
Little... Mousey!
Pinging, velvet, covered in fur.
Little... Mousey.
Little Mousey... Little Mousey,
it is now the time...
To say goodnight and sleepy warmie...
Dreaming of my rhyme...
"Aaah!"
Posted by gledwood at 3:52 PM GMT
Updated: Thursday, 7 December 2006 4:08 PM GMT

Big Baby Mouster

Tuesday, 5 December 2006
Mood: lyricalNow Playing: Responsible AdultTopic: Chinese Mouse
HARVEY THE CHINESE HAMMY'S GROWING UP FAST. In hammy years he's already hit his teens. He has an adult coat all sand-coloured and the same bristly "mane" across the shoulderblades that tomcats and other male mammals get.
I've taught him a couple of tricks. He grabs my finger by the back legs and swings down like a bat. If nothing's worth dropping for he reverses back to sitting position without ever putting a foot wrong.
He climbs the flex of my mobile phone charger housemouse-style. I'm saving up to get him a proper mouse-cage with bars for climbing because I think that stuck in an old fishtank — and not being into wheels — he must be bored.
He will still relax in the folds of my clothing, or even sleep there. He gets a good hour of supervised exercise each night. It is very closely monitored, though. Since last week's jailbreak I'm on full alert for all his escapological antics.
I love my Mousey — but when he tries to escape he is a bloody swine.
Posted by gledwood at 8:48 PM GMT
Updated: Tuesday, 5 December 2006 11:31 PM GMT
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Wednesday, 6 December 2006 - 8:50 PM GMT
Name: "mousie" Home Page: http://plumpiemousie.blogspot.comE-Mail: claudine.le-gac@laposte.net
I have a dog...one I picked up in the street...the girl had just found a flat and couldn't keep him...he was a baby, couldn't feed himself...he 's so cute and full of love...
We also had an old dog we adopted as well...when my son Thomas had crisis, terrible one, she lied down on him and would not move until he got better...
these animals are so important for us...
love to yours from Tao my dog
Mousie, who's proud of knowing you