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Lucian’s Provenance
Valentina was to be my last hamster for a few years. As Crenguţă lay dying, I vowed to spoil Valentina into the little furry princess of my heart. After her death I would delve into the world of...
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Ivan’s Hamsterification Halted
This is my stepcat: While Matt is away, Ivan stays with me. In the past, Ivan’s stay has produced some weird behaviour. It must have been the hamsters. Hamsters, in their domesticated environment, use...
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Hamsters that Mean Business
Above: My former, very much feral hamster, Crenguţă. Matt found this passage in David Foster Wallace’s 1996 novel Infinite Jest (page 93): It’s a herd of feral hamsters, a major herd, thundering...
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Games that Hamsters Refuse to Play
Matt and I thought we came up with the cleverest game ever to play with a hamster. We thought the hamsters would play along. Hamsters really like to make nests out of tissue paper; my hamsters get a...
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Ivan’s Identity Issues
It’s not the first time Ivan has identified with our rodent friends. He has always been fascinated with our hamsters: He noted, for example, that hamsters line their beds with toilet paper. Here’s...
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