Originally Posted By pennyring Ursula! I confess I may have an idea for your "Fang the Hamster" situation. I was watching some pet show on the animal channel and these people had a chinchilla with "issues". Boy can I relate!! We have the world's most disgruntled chinchilla EVER! "Yo! Gimme that raisin and get outta my face! Don't touch me! I'll kill ya! I'll knife ya, man! I ain't playin wit chew!" Anyway, these people on the show had an equally angry chinchilla, so the pet expert lady was telling them to take a feather duster... and sort of stick it through the cage bars... and gently touch the chinchilla. The idea was to use the duster to get the chin used to being touched. Sort of desensitize it. After the chin got used to the feather duster, they gradually worked their way up to sticking their hands in the cage. Seemed to work pretty good for them. I never bothered to try though cuz Chillie Willie is 8 years old, so I figure he's pretty set in his ways. Worth a shot with a lil hamster though!
Originally Posted By pennyring Oh! Another tip is that sometimes little animals are super sensitive to scent. So make sure you wash your hands before touching Fang. If you have hand lotion, perfume, or even froo froo hand soap, he might be freaking out about that smell too.
Originally Posted By melekalikimaka <<We have the world's most disgruntled chinchilla EVER! "Yo! Gimme that raisin and get outta my face! Don't touch me! I'll kill ya! I'll knife ya, man! I ain't playin wit chew!">> I confess that this post REALLY made me laugh!
Originally Posted By pennyring Willie is hilarious. He regularly fence fights with Rusty (boy dog). Rusty sticks his nose thru the cage bars. Willie lunges -- all 4 feet first -- flailing viciously, teeth gnashing. If I let him out of the cage Rusty'd make a two-bite meal out of him. Our old roommate called Willie "Ol' One Glove" cuz that's about all you'd be able to make out of his pelt. Willie would lunge viciously at Jason. Jason would laugh and mock him for being trapped in the cage, wiggling his thumbs at Willie. "Too bad you don't have opposable thumbs, maybe you'd be able to open that latch on the cage!" Anywho, I confess some crazy man with a death wish riding one of those funky laid back bikes just about got killed on the way back from lunch. For some reason he thought stopping six inches from my back bumper at the stop light was a smart idea. HELLO! I have a manual transmission. The car rolls back when starting!
Originally Posted By jlin714 I confess I started gesticulating too wildly and ended up hitting an innocent bystander in the groin.
Originally Posted By jlin714 I confess that as I turned to say I'm sorry and ask if he was okay, I then proceeded to knock a girl's cup of coffee all over her.
Originally Posted By jlin714 I confess all these things happened while I was trying to casually chat up a boy that I find attractive. *sigh*
Originally Posted By jlin714 I confess later on in class an especially idiotic comment (made by me of course) forced me to actually duck under my desk in embarrassment.
Originally Posted By SuzieQ I confess I feel for you jlin! Don't you wish some days were just bad dreams?
Originally Posted By goodgirl I confess someone should tell jlin about that trail of toilet paper that's stuck to the bottom of her shoe.
Originally Posted By smedley I confess that my back is only a little better this morning, and I am worried it's still going to be a problem when I go to Disneyland Paris next week.
Originally Posted By Mrs 2oon I confess that I'm tired of doing homework all the time. It's either my homework or helping the 2oonlets with theirs. It just never ends. I also confess that it's hard to concentrate on my accounting homework when the floor needs to be vacuumed, kitchen needs to be swept, bathroom cleaned, etc.
