RIP Coco

Never thought to write a post of Coco's passing so soon.

We are deeply saddened that Coco has passed the rainbow bridge on 16 December 2015. Everything looks fine the day before and even on the morning of the day. Coco had lived a full life of approximately 2 years and a half. He is fully loved and had brought us so much joy, also as the most unique hamster that we ever adopted.

Coco is dearly missed.

We will miss your squeaks, your shenanigans, the first day drama when we brought you home, how you stunk like a skunk (the smelliest male hamster ever), how fat you become, how cute you were when we picked you up and rub your fat tummy, how greedy you were to eat a whole piece of bread in one go, how happy you were when you tasted green tea ice cream for the first time, how you grab your favourite broccoli from us everything we gave one, how you released the piece of non-delicious organic cake with a "are you kidding me" look on your face, and so on and so on...

You left us too soon :"(

Please have a good rebirth and be a good boy, wherever you are.

Be close to Buddha's path and be enlightened. 

Om Mani Padme Hum 

Tadyanta Om Bedkanze Bedkanze Maha Bedkanze Randza Samung Gate Soha

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<)❤

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

Lulu is actually not a fat fat

For the past two days we suspected Lulu was having a wet tail, so we brought her to the vet expecting some quick diagnose and get medicine.

But the first thing the vet said was: "the first thing I notice here is that why Lulu's food pouch so big? That's abnormal". And then both of us were like "Really??? But we thought she's fat and she has been looking like this for a very long time!".

To our horror, the vet suspected Lulu's food pouch was infected because of constant storing of food.

I will post the video up after I have time to edit, it was like an endless loop of stored food "vomiting" out of Lulu's mouth as the vet pushed the food out from Lulu's cheek. Mummy got freaked out and anxious so me and the vet asked her to go outside. Looking back at the video Mummy still screamed.
When about 60% of the food were out, we could smell the foul rotten food :(

Greedy greedy Lulu!

Anyways, this is how Lulu looks like now:

Exhausted after being "squeezed"

Mummy says she looks like she has gotten a new haircut XD

Now she looks just like any other normal hamsters!!! Apparently her pouch was oversize with extravagant amount of food T_T We have no idea T_T

How she looks like when she had a humongous pouch:

What a huge difference!!!!

So Lulu is now on 0.1ml antibiotic once a day, and seems like she does not have any wet tail symptom, we have changed the wood-shred bedding and even cage for her.

Happy to have Lulu the cute greedy hamster as our daughter <3 We will watch her food intake from now on. Mimi was not this greedy so she never had the wide-face look :)

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 :)

8 months with us

Mimi was eating, Lulu was staring at camera :)

Our adorable babies <3

Previously Mama baked a pumpkin bread and the hammies seem to like to eat a lot. So for their 8th-month-versary, mummies planned to bake another pumpkin bread for them^^

This time it is a pumpkin-applesauce bread. They don't nom it up a.s.a.p. like the last time, but still finish their portion of bread nonetheless.

The idea of this photo shoot is risky. They seemed get along well in the beginning. Mimi proactively approaching Lulu,sniffing her face as close as possible.

And then, Mummy was fearing that Mimi was about to make an attack, so swiped her off the ramekin dish.But then Lulu abandoned the bread and sniffing Mimi instead. Mama felt like the rendezvous is a success. However, as soon as the DSLR was put down, Mimi bit Lulu and the two bit on each other, wouldn't let go. Mummy got bitten by Mimi a little while separating them up :(
Mama put socks on top of Lulu to stop her from getting up or attacking back Mimi. Lulu didn't struggle much and just laid on her back and closed her eyes.

Looks like Mimi is more aggressive and is in menopause now. Hopefully when her menopause is over, the two of them can live together peacefully :)

Mummy decided to give Lulu a gift, given that she's gaining a lot of weight and seldom run on the wheel nowadays. Initially bought a Habitrail mini rails. But sadly Lulu cannot fit through the tunnel! OMG! When we returned to the petshop, the shop assistant is also shocked that how could a Winter hamster couldn't get through the tunnel. That's so freaking funny XD

So we bought her a space ship instead :D

Spaceship side view

Spaceship bird-eye view

The connection from the Pokeball to the spaceship :)

Mummy and Mama love these two babies so much! May Mimi and Lulu be happy and healthy always~ Om mani padme hung

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=