#team albert

[marsmad]

So excited, I just know Albert Sparma will blow our minds 💜🖤💜🖤💜🖤💜

[hamsterif]

Update #53: 13/7/20

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Hm... 🤨

I haven’t posted for about a month! The truth is, it doesn’t feel the same anymore. I don’t have my 2 girlies or my cranky boy. However, I am so so grateful to still have Albert with me. Those 4 were my original 4, and even though I shouldn’t have favorites, having that ‘group’ of hamsters was an amazing time in my life. Things feel different now. I’ve got Happy that I can hold if I want to put up with some nibbles. I’ve got Albert that I can hold but he doesn’t enjoy it very much (yes! Albert is tame!) Then I have Pie. I haven’t managed to build a bond with him at all and it saddens me to say it but he doesn’t feel like my hamster. He is very cute but he just doesn’t feel like mine. Then I have Ginger and Ocean that aren’t mine, but I feel more connected to them than I do Pie which makes me feel bad.

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I miss Cloud splatting down on my hand and shoving all the food she could into her pouches. I miss Cactus running up and down my arms and firing food from her pouches all over the carpet, and sitting waiting for me to pick her up. I miss Bear glaring at me from across the room and screaming if I did something he didn’t like. I miss the days where I wasn’t checking on Albert and thinking ‘is today the day...’

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But on the plus side, I’ve got 3 healthy hamsters enjoying life.

[hamsterif]

Update #52: 4/7/20

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Old Man Albert 🧓🏻

Albert is around 2 years old now and his fur is starting to thin out and go a bit patchy in some areas. He looks pretty scraggly! I am going to try a few things so he can restore his youthful appearance but I’m not sure if they will work.

[hamsterif]

Update #49: 13/4/20

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Cage... Downgrade? 🤔

My last post was me talking about how I gave Albert the whole of the once split Detolf. And this post is me talking about how he now has just half again... I was unsure about how Albert would react to having so much more space due to him being slightly old and being so nervy, and not to my surprise, he was terrified. He couldn’t handle all the space and seemed to feel very unsafe. He stopped eating and barely left his man cave. Thankfully, about a week since I’ve put him back in a smaller section, he is back to his energetic self and is having the time of his life on his wheel! Sometimes, bigger isn’t better after all.

[hamsterif]

Bear pops up to say thank you from all of us for 100 followers!

[hamsterif]

Little Albert hiding and peaking from his teepee! Thought I’d post a photo on here as I haven’t for a long time. I post most of the photos I take on Instagram (@hamsteriif) now, so if you want more photos that’s the place to go!

[hamsterif]

Update #32: 19/6/19

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Bear Escaped... 😵

He did it. He got in to Albert’s cage. Both parties are okay at the moment. Bear is in a completely separate cage for the time being. Albert has been spoiled with treats.

[hamsterif]

Update #27: 10/5/19

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Hey Mum, What Are You Up To? 🤪

Before I went to bed last night, I went about feeding all the hamsters. I gave Bear his meal, then moved on to Albert. I took his bowl out of his cage and placed it on the floor in front of me, turned round to grab the bag of food next to me... Then I see a little face peeking around the corner of my desk, and then stroll towards Albert’s bowl to sit in it! I was in so much shock I just sat and stared at this hamster that had just happily strolled across my floor without a care in the world! After I was finished gawping, I scooped up the hamster and went about identifying who it was... which took half an hour - not brilliant when it’s approaching 1am. It looked so much like Bear I was almost certain it was him, but they were handling so well it was too out of character for it to be him. I knew it definitely wasn’t Albert because it wasn’t a roborovski that approached me. It definitely wasn’t Cactus because she was watching me holding this other hamster while being absolutely stumped on who it was. Then, after hiding for this whole time, Bear sleepily stumbles out of his tunnel. Cloud certainly had some explaining to do after that escape stunt.