Well, I have a little beautiful siberian hamster. She has cream color on her face and patches on her body. Anyway, one day, last year I think, I was feeding my frogs and one of the freshly molt cricket got away. It crawl toward Cloey's cage, and I this thought hit me, maybe she would like to have some freshly molt cricket for a snack. So I pick it up and try to give it to her. She comes in a little closer to investigate, sniffing. Then I let her have it. It crawl on her and got scared and did flip. Poor thing! But it was so funny. 
And I can't stop laughing about it until today. [chuckle]
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A Funny Hamster Story!!!
Knot
May 20, 2003 11:55 AM
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Knot
May 20, 2003 01:22 PM
Sorry...that's a Syrian hamster or a short-haired hamster.
Haru
May 20, 2003 09:45 PM
That is so cute! I'm taking it your hamster did a flip, right? *laughs* I've never seen a Syrian flip before, but my dwarves occasionally leap into the air while running from each other.
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PHWyvern
May 20, 2003 10:28 PM
>> That is so cute! I'm taking it your hamster did a flip, right? *laughs* I've never seen a Syrian flip before, but my dwarves occasionally leap into the air while running from each other.
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>>Haru!
LOL... I had a dwarf that would stand up and fall/roll over backwards onto his back when startled by something. When he would get itches on his back, there are times when he would look like a chinchilla trying to take a dust bath 
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Haru
May 23, 2003 08:58 PM
That sounds like what one of my hamsters does! LOL She's huge for a dwarf, and long. What she does is stand on her hind legs, and look back as far as possible until she falls over. Then she does it again. She looks like a snake when she does that. 
I'd like to know what she's looking for, really!
Sorry if you've already posted this somewhere, but what pets do you have currently? Just curious-- I think I used to see you post on the old forum.
>>LOL... I had a dwarf that would stand up and fall/roll over backwards onto his back when startled by something. When he would get itches on his back, there are times when he would look like a chinchilla trying to take a dust bath
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Knot
May 21, 2003 12:06 AM
I think she did a flip, or at least that's what it looked like. It was funny.! [chuckle]
Tor_de_Fartz
May 22, 2003 04:17 PM
What got me interested in dwarf hamster actually was a series of happenings that took place last weekend. Some friends of mine brought over their three little gray dwarf hamsters. These things were young (teenage by hamster standards) and aboslutely ridiculous. When they came out of the cage, one attacked my shoe string, pulling so hard it nearly untied it. At that point another hamster joined in, and finally the first rolled backwards and onto my lap (was sitting Indian style). It just went head over heels like a ball. When it stopped, the third hamster wrestled it and then we put them back. Later, they all gathered around the food bowl eating pellets and corn. They looked like little bar hoppers as they sat around eating, as if the bowl were a table in breakroom at some job they all worked. If you tapped on the glas, they stoppe eating, sniffed, then turned their backs on you as if to don't bother me. Then they went about their business: one rolled a grape around, another demolished a chew stick, and a third began dragging nesting material about the cage.
Watching those little guys made me decide I wanted a couple or three dwarf hamsters. I've mostly been a reptile/tropical fish person prior to my encounter with the hams, but since then, I've been mulling over getting a few.
