Captain Kirk exploring

Captain Kirk is a rescue hamster from Paws Here.
www.pawshereedinburgh.co.uk
I fell in love with him at their craft fair on Saturday 10th December 2011 and picked him up today. Here he is in his new palace.

Update: Around 4am on 4th January he started having breathing difficulties and there was some discharge at his rear end. He was also going crazy in his cage, running around as if he was possessed. By 8.30am I had a vet appointment and half an hour after that he was seen by a vet. The vet said that for an 8 month old male hamster he was missing two rather important bits of anatomy . . . testicles. Of course in my panicked state I had noticed the teats but was too panicked by the breathing sounds to register what it meant. It also explained why my two boy hamster sat and licked my hands non stop for 10 minutes when I next handled them and why Captain Jane T Kirk was perfectly happy for me to attempt to clean up the mucus mess at her "rear" end. D'oh. Oh well. We have one horny female hamster who insists on setting off the boys despite being on the other side of the room. I'm so glad Syrian hamsters are solitary and that these critters have always had their own cages. Kirk's existence has given Jasper a new lease of life. I'm so glad I adopted her. My boyfriend has been utterly charmed by her too now. The video is her old cage set up. I've rearranged it a bit since then to make it more fun for her. Her name is almost the same apart from Jane instead of James.

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