We have an addiction...

... to hamsters. We went to buy Pigster a bigger cage yesterday. We had the original 10 gallon aquarium that he learned to climb out of and the wire top part to keep him contained. The problem is he was sticking his head through the wires to chew on them and it gave him ugly sores on his face. To remedy the situation, we bought him a bigger aquarium - 29 gallons. He's got a lot more room and he'll have to pull some amazing gymnastic type feats to climb out of this one.

This left us with an empty 10 gallon aquarium. What to do? Buy another hamster of course. *sigh* Meet Barry:



He's a black bear hamster (hence the name "Barry" ha ha), about 3 weeks old. He seems sweet so far, but we've only had him for a day so he needs time to become psychotic.

And to recap our hamster situation:

There is Howie, the sweet and calm Russian hamster:


There is Pigster, the gigantic teddy bear (it's mostly fur):


There is Duey, the psychotic Russian hamster:


And now there is Barry, the black bear hamster:


It's getting to be a zoo around here. :)