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[katimari]

Love reading all your stories. One of my best hams, Luna, came from a pet store. She had bites on her face and the lady helping us said -> this one is evil! Of course we have never known a bad hamster and assumed it was just poor treatment that got her that reputation. We ended up getting her much to the surprise of the lady helping us and she was truly one of the sweetest hamsters we ever had. She was spunky and sweet. She would sit on me for an hour at a time being petted. She got me through some hard times. One of the best decisions we ever made.

[ForgetfulBreeze]

I got my hybrid hamster Breeze from an accidental litter.

 

I picked her, as she was the biggest, and actually hissed from being woken up haha.

[luvkeylinn]

I got my Campbell's Russian hybrid dwarf from a guy on Craigslist who was looking to rehome some baby hamsters. 

 

I chose James because he was the only hamster who went on top of a peanut hide and stood up, looking at me.

 

Right away, I knew he was the hamster I wanted <33

[ajuniceuhamsters]

I got my previous female robo, wings, (yes i named her after a bts album i was obssessed with them in 2016, gimme a break!) from the local SPCA when she was about 3 months old, in 2016. 

A family that had a young boy, around 8, had her for about 3 weeks for his birthday before he got 'bored' with her so they brought her to the shelter. She was living in a critterjail until I got her. :(

 

She eventually died of old age in 2019.

[Jellie]

I got my ww hybrid jellie from an accidental litter. my mom told me to pick the most active one, but it was during the day. i knew nothing about hamster care T-T and got her a crittertrail, but the people lifted the hide to show the sleeping hammys and jellie ran out and went into a diff hide. so i got her... T-T i still feel guilty about keeping her in a crittertrail and all of my horrible care ;-;

[mlel~]

I didn't choose Lemon, my friends chose him. From what I've heard, he was the most active ham in the litter and that's why he was chosen. They surprised me with him (I still had some accessories from Melon that were sanitised) in August last year. He lived in a habitrail for three days before I upgraded to an Alaska cage :/

[dino ♥]

Um... Nugget was the only one that didn't scream?...

and he had the best sniffs, he also was very curious and not er- terrified

We didn't get him from the best place...

[Tiny Ball Of Fuzz]

My first hamster (Lemon Drop, a syrian) came from a pet store, and my whole family was there, telling me to pick the 'dancing hamster' who was actually wall jumping. The other hamster was a cream long-haired banded, and he was curled up in a corner, only trying to sleep. Of course I chose the cream! I also got a tiny cage with mesh platforms and ramps, a single, tiny hideout, a terrible chew toy, gave him scarcely any bedding, and an absolutely miniature wheel. Oof.

 

My second and current hamster, (Nibbles, a syrian) also came from a pet store. I chose him because there was a cream banded again, but I thought he'd remind me too much of Lemon, and he had slightly red eyes, which back then I thought meant he was sick. There was also another 'dancing hamster'. I chose Nibbles, the sable banded shy one, because I liked his personality and colouring. I gave Nibbles the same cage and platforms, and the same hide, still scarcely any bedding, a bigger, (normal sized) wheel that took up over half of the cage, and better chew toys. Then, later, I found a couple of YouTube channels that helped my hamster care, and me and my dad made a nice bin cage for Nibbles.