so good morning everybody it is 9:04am
and we are finally
adopting a dwarf hamster so
let's go
I'm just going to give the carrier a quick wash because it's pretty dusty and then I'm going to fill it with some bedding
then I'm just going to fill up the water and sprinkle some food in the cage
I'm so excited to introduce you guys to
Nickel
I've been looking for adoptable dwarfs for quite a bit now
but I have had no luck up until now
I adopted Nickel off of Kijiji which is a buy and sell website for Canada
this is where people will sell things like Furniture, Electronics, clothing, toys all of the ETC including
pets if somebody is got an accidental litter or they just
simply want to rehome a pet
so of course when I came across a door hamster ad I just had to go ahead and message them and see if he was available which he was
in the ad the lady had said that
it was her daughter's hamster and they just didn't have enough time for him anymore
than that he really loves coming out of the enclosure he's tame he's not a biter and they just want him to go
to a home that's going to be able to give him the attention that he deserves
so I went with my boyfriend to go pick him up
because you should never ever ever go alone
when doing a transaction like that off of a buy and sell website
um especially if you're meeting them at their home
um if you can only go by yourself please make sure
that you are meeting in a public space like a parking lot that's busy or something like that just because
in today's day you just
can't really trust anybody so either go with somebody or meet in a public space
just to be safe
when I got to her house she actually came up holding the hamster
and she put him in my carrier and assured me that he was super friendly, he wasn't a biter
which even if he was I couldn't care but
the way that she was holding him and the way he was just sitting there I could tell that he was a very friendly hamster already
so he is a male hybrid dwarf hamster and I did go ahead and ask her if she knew how old he was
or how long that they've had him for
um she did say that they're not sure how old he is but they've had him for 4 months
and that she got him from her sister's boyfriend and they don't know how long he's had him
so his age right now is just really unknown all I know is that he definitely is an adult hamster
and when I was leaving the lady mentioned that she was really happy that he was going to a good home
because her daughter just wasn't even cleaning out the cage anymore
and I will insert a picture now of what the enclosure he was living in
looked like because as you guys probably have noticed
he has a little bald patch above his nose
and this is called bar rub
um it's when a hamster or any other caged animal is
consistently chewing on the bars
and it basically rubs
above their nose and and creates a bald spot
so it just goes to show that he was probably pretty unhappy he didn't have
any of the things really a hamster needs
and I was talking to my boyfriend about this in the car when we were going home and I was getting a little emotional because I was like this hamster
I don't know how old he is he could be a year for all we know has lived in
subpar conditions for so long and now he's going somewhere where he's
going to have a sand bath for the first time he's going to have
bedding to actually be able to burrow in he's going to be able to
forage for things he's going to try Foods he's never even tried like dried herbs and flowers and
it just blows my mind that
he gets to experience that and there's so many hamsters out there that unfortunately don't get to experience that and I wish
I wish all hamsters would be able to get to have those simple basic things
we decided on the name Nickel because he is obviously gray silver
um and a Nickel is gray silver
and it just was a very fitting name it also goes along with my little theme with my hamster penny
so we have Penny and Nickel
he is a very friendly hamster I have been able to pick him up
I definitely am not going to have to really do any taming with him because he just is
very used to human interaction he's not scared at all
he lets you give him treats he lets you pick him up
he lets you pet him so I think I ended up
really lucky with him
I hope you guys have enjoyed meeting Nickel and hopefully you'll see him in more videos to come
and I will see you guys in my next video bye