RIP Vingdragån

Tonight I found Vingdragån dead in his house. He seemed old these past few weeks, but not ill. He only lived to be 1 year and 5 months old, which is surprising. I was hoping he'd be around for at least two years.

Mealworms for Vingdragån

Currently I'm a huge fan of the pet shop Zoo-1 here in Drammen. They gave me their leftover dried mealworm crumbs when they didn't have any for sale, and then special ordered them for me (well, for Vingdragån). My more local pet shop just informed me that no, they don't have dried mealworms, but they sell live ones. Not a pip about maybe getting the dried variety for me. I'm not feeding Vingdragån live mealworms, I do not care! Zoo-1 to the rescue, though, so now I don't have to stop in Oslo to get dried mealworms anymore!

Vingdragån is one happy ham.



Have a few photos from today's mealworm sessions as well:

Hamster names!

For the record; the names of our two next hamsters will be Baltasar II and Nusse II respectively, named after trilltrall's childhood hamsters!

Vingdragån is still alive & kicking, by the way. :-)

Vingdragon making an appearance

He's still not the most sociable hamster ever, but I do manage to lure him out occasionally.

A little outing tonight, with a piece of bread for a snack.

A little outing in the sand box

Vingdragån finally got the point with the box of sand tonight. He was out & about as his cage was getting cleaned.

Evening snack

A few photos of Vingdragån's fur from last night. He's 5.5 months old now.

Tired hamster won't say hi

My parents stopped by yesterday and wanted to meet Vingdragån. It was 6.30pm, so really, he could have done them the favour of waking up. But he didn't! He didn't show his little face until 10pm yesterday, and even then he didn't exactly look wide awake :-D