Coco the fat fat

We haven't properly introduced Coco on this blog.

He has been called the "Eric Cartman", "Fat Fat", "Smelly", "Dan Dan", and many more, due to the following reasons:

Initially he refused to be tamed;
He eats a lot;
His gland scent is horribly smelly;
He bites us sometimes;
He wants to eat when he knows we are eating.

Now we can handle him and he is super adorable. We have also changed the bedding to control his odor.

This is how happy he is when he's eating (he has various positions, this is standing up):
This is when we figured out how to pick him up when he is rounder and couldn't resist:

Lot's of fun with Coco ♥♥♥   

We will show more photos and videos of him here, meanwhile do check out our instagram (๑>ㅂ<)❤

New hamster Coco and Lulu's update

It's been too long we didn't update here.

On 26 Oct 2013, we welcome a new hamster named Coco into our family.

He is a Sapphire dwarf hamster and is still very nervous around us, won't let us touch him. He smells pretty bad from his scent gland as well.

He grows into a big fat hamster within a month and enjoys sitting on his balls (lol) in the corner of the cage.

Lulu is getting pretty frail lately. Her 'flu' has been on and off, and she's been on medication on and off as well. Yesterday she hurt herself by crossing over the Habitrail's house, getting her leg stuck, hung on the edge of the partition for we-don't-know-how-long. It's really heart-breaking when we checked her out before we went to bed. She didn't even make any sound.

Lulu becomes smaller in size, and her lower half is very skinny. She still fills her pouches with lots of food, we hope she really eats them and not just storing them for no reason.

Need to keep a very close eye on Lulu. She's now with us everywhere we do our work in the house.

Lulu with her dress.

May our little angels be well and happy.

Lulu loves mashed potato

Mama and mummy were busy, and Lulu seems to enjoy sleeping longer than usual... considering her age we take that as a sign of aging :(

Today we cooked mashed potato, and mummy couldn't finish it. Considering there are hamsters that love french fries (we don't give that to Lulu), we try to give her some mashed potato:

Lulu awaken almost immediately after she smells the food.

And she really loves the potato!

I tried to move the spoon away, and she stretched out her arms to hold the spoon XD

Finishing the last bit of mashed potato :)

The mashed potato is homemade healthier version so there is no butter, but it's really tasty, using this vegan recipe.

We all love potatoes <3

Feeding Lulu medicine

See description at the Youtube video :)

Lulu and her poor dress

We bought Lulu a mini dress because larger size is not available. As a result Lulu the fat fat couldn't squeeze through the dress, even after she removes all food from her pouches.



Longer edition of the video is cut into 3 parts:
Part 1: http://youtu.be/Zn5cY1x_Fts
Part 2: http://youtu.be/mP9CJuP8j4M
Part 3: http://youtu.be/GoanfmScUCI

Mimi and Lulu on mobile phones

The quality is really bad, but can't resist as they look cute no matter what! :D

Lulu on Mummy's lap. Look at her fingers XD

Mimi bite bite!

Lulu mediate in her bedroom.

Mimi meditate at her corner

Mimi sleeping with one leg stretched out.

Lulu bit the paper aggressively. We transferred her to the cage because Mummy is worried that  Lulu has become obese. The bar cage will give her more space to work out.

Continue bite bite.

When Mama tried to take the paper away, Lulu rushed and tried to grab the paper by mouth, LOL

They switched cage :) Mimi sleeping in Lulu's bedroom.

Lulu found a new favorite spot: sleeping under the House :)

When Mimi showed her frustration staying in the Pokeball, and we realised that she didn't know how to drink from water globe, finally we decided to buy her a new house on their 1 year anniversary with us (last month).

However, Mimi does not appreciate the two-tier house, and the wheel is so small, one of her leg would accidentally step into the air as she runs.

But she could finally know where to drink the water. So that's  a good thing about this cage.

Mimi awaken by cage opening noise (when Mama attempting to take this photo).

Wanted to take a photo of Lulu sleeping under the shredded papers that she created, but she was awaken by the cage opening noise as well, hehe. 

Sleeping is our favorite activity

Opening the cage awaken Lulu.

Go back to sleep.

Curling up in fetus position.

Mimi is too cute!

We switch their cages, because Mimi's bite bite pandemic was getting worse. She felt a part of freedom was lost in a bar-less pokeball. So we had actually bought a new cage for Mimi.

It's been more than a month we didn't update here, and their anniversary is approaching!

We love Mimi and lulu <3

Broccoli again

Mimi munches on broccoli <3

Lulu was also very focused on the big clove of broccoli <3

Always their favorite food (asides from my breads and cakes <3)

Sleepy hammies

Sleepy Mimi :)
When the camera's shutter went off, she was woken up by surprised, ooops!

The Fat Fat glanced at Mama while lazying in her bedroom <3

Fat fat does not run on the wheel

Lulu has quit running for quite some time now. And she is obviously more obese than before. We try to encourage her exercise more by buying her an extra space ship. But she simply goes into the space ship to get more wood pieces for her bedroom.

Lulu you need to run more!

Mimi and Lulu have been with us for 9 months now :)

Lulu the fat fat

Criminal shot 1

Criminal shot 2

Criminal shot 3

Criminal shot 4

Lulu has officially became The Fat-Fat without our much awareness back in September.

Mama is the culprit as she doesn't have any experience in looking after hamster. The story is that Mama thought Lulu finished everything off her plate very quickly, and in fear of starving the cute little furry ball, Mama gave Lulu same amount of food 2 times per day everyday.

The result is a Lulu that is almost triple the size of Mimi. Mimi never finished off the whole plate in one go. Mummy reveals the truth that "Hamsters store their food away!!" So Mama was misled into thinking Lulu finished the food faster while the truth is Lulu stores all the seeds inside her "bedroom"! Mimi does not do so, she simply covers her food with wood flakes.

So now Lulu is only given one feed per day. And she still peels the sunflower seeds quickly and puts all of them into her mouth, and then stores in her bedroom, thinking Mama might give second feed upon seeing the plate is empty =w=

Our pocket pets

Mimi the pocket pet

Trying to get out

Our cutie~

Lulu hanging on the pocket with two arms out XD

Fufufu

Ever adorable fat fat

Idea for photography comes from the vet description :D Aren't they cute?

Lulu the fat fat and Mimi the gold digger

We give food in the morning. And the hammies would be alert of our appearance before their house, standing up looking at us waiting for the humans to feed them. Once the plate is served, Lulu focuses attentively to the food, and nothing else.

Watch until the end for her ultra cute close-up XD

After having minimal food, Mimi keeps digging her mines for Buddha-knows-what, occassionally looking up at the human or the camera, and ninja-ing onto the cage and biting the bars. And then fell down on purpose. Simply too cute.

The videos are taken this morning :)

Today Mimi and Lulu are with us for 6 months, they are a bundle of joy :)

Hammies on strawberries

Mimi

Lulu

They are basically biting the strawberry slippers XD

Hammies in dark pink lace

Lulu

Mimi

I am trying to improve my photography skill and start to explore Lightroom. But the outcome is still not as I expect it to be. Need more practices!

Hammies and broccoli

Lulu:

 Mimi:

Om nom nom nom