Booger attempts to become the first Hameleon.

Posted by Ned (Toronto, Canada) on 19 December 2006 in Animal & Insect.

"if I stay still here long enough, maybe, just maybe......"

Booger is hiding out at the edge of a pillow case.

He is about 6-7 weeks younger then Skuzzball and his little ears are still furry.

Booger thinks that places that are cramped are awesome.

Hamsters do not exist in the wild any longer, the are only pets and lab experiments. They are the only animal anyone has been able to find (excluding humans) who actually prefer alcohol to plain water. If given the choice between fresh, clean water and water with a small amount of alcohol in it they will go for the booze. Which makes them favourites for scientists who are studying alcoholism and related things because it is easy to turn a hamsters into a cute little alkys.

I was unable to find out much else about how these experiments work but I was wondering if a ham with the DT's hallucinates pink elephants.

Also, before they became extinct in the wild hamsters were sort of an ultimate food source for anything who eats small mammals. They have the shortest gestation period of any mammal, about 3 weeks, and usually have rather large litters, between 10-14 pups. So I can only imagine in the Syrian badlands that hammies must have been a pretty common snack for birds and whatnot.

I jokingly like to think that their extreme cuteness is some kind of defense mechanism. Like a owl who is hungry would have second thoughts concerning his food choice as he is swooping down on a ham who suddenly strikes a cute pose.

Bonus music review of the day: The first Digital Underground album is called "Sex Packets" and it's underlying premise it that there is a hallucinogenic which makes people have orgasms (don't worry they are pretty tasteful in their lyrics, no 2 live crew style "booty rapping" or anything). The only song most people have heard by these guys is called "the humpty dance", whose main redeeming quality is having the lumpiest bass line in the whole world, but otherwise is fairly stupid. Anyhow, I heard the rest of the album, and if you want to try out a very neat early '90s hip-hop/rap/funk record I recommend it to you. Very thoughtful, silly, novel and fun material. Band members sometimes play reoccurring characters and will have secret alternate identities and other unusual ploys. The main reason that they probably never really got popular (outside the underground west coast hip-hop scene at the time) is that, clocking it at usually over 6 minutes, none of their songs could really become radio friendly singles, not because of dirtiness or crude lyrics, but due to their duration alone. Though I feel they would certainly have been worthy.

It is a cold day in Toronto and both the hams are hunkered down in their nests, but I did share some whole-wheat pita with them today.

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