As you know, we have returned Snowy to the rescuer as he is very aggressive. Bert later on bought 6 tiger oscar fish, not realising that they can grow to 6 inches in length to 1ft when fully grown. They were just 2.5cm long and in just 1 week, they grew about half cm!! As our tank was very small, we traded them for 4 goldfish.
Then Feli's classmate wanted to give away 7 new born hamsters. We were reluctant to take 1 as I personally had enough of pets. Bert solely cleans up the tank. As Tiffy can't celebrate Feli's birthday cos her cat teacher says everyone is to go for youth mass next week & her sis birthday was not a good enough reason to skip the mass, Tiffy decided to buy her a hamster, as she was badgering for one ever since her classmate told her all of them were already given away.
That's now we ended up at the Pet Lovers Centre getting the hamster, the cage and the whole works. I thought upkeep of hamsters were cheap...was I woefully wrong! My pockets were set back by $140+ and it could have been more, as I told the petshop guy I don't need this & this & that, otherwise it would have cost even more!!! I dare not think. And we were trying to go on an austerity drive having just been billed the Tioman trip of $1600 this month!! Gosh, hols are so expensive...no wonder we hardly go for one...our memory was just rudely jostled by the costs. Well, the austerity drive will have to wait till tomorrow. Meantime, Hammie (short for hamburger) was the darling star attraction at my mum's place this evening. We just bought him today on the way to her place. Even my bro came to look at him, and so did my dad as he passed by on his wheelchair. He's quite cute actually. He's a local white winter but is currently greyish with a white underbelly. He loves climbing up the tunnel to his "treetop" sandbath and scampering down again as fast as lightning! Hopefully he'll adjust well and live long. He's just 3 months and due to adjustment, has not eaten a morsel yet. Feli just wants to keep handling him, and both girls just love to watch him dashing around inquisitively in his cage.
Love Theresa
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