Hm....

Lizziey, this site says it's okay for hamsters to have occasional hard boiled eggs, eating yeast, and the all important fish liver oil. Oh, and some doggy biscuits now and again, which sounds like a good idea, and cheap, if I could trust pet food companies....

Both that site and this one mention meal worms. This one also mentions alfalfa. But that's their product, so I'm not surprised.

This site says you should have blocks of wood, branches, etc. for climbing, and mentions dried fruit (maybe raisins) as food....

I don't know enough about hamsters. Clearly. And Lizziey's hamster could do with more variety in the diet (apparently) and more interesting surroundings. Branches I can get, though, that'll be easy. Right?

Okay, I know you people, some of you know about rodents in general and/or hamsters in specific. Hey, you can all spell the word, and that's really good enough for me. HELP!

Edit: Wikipedia suggests, among other things, a sand bath. It also recommends having hay at all times, for both food and nesting, and says hamsters should not have very many sweet fruits, and emphasises the importance of a salt stone. Wikipedia puts a lot of thought into the care of the common hamster. IF wikipedia is correct, I have a shopping list to make out.

If it's true, I'm not surprised....

If it's not true... I'm still not surprised.

Despite the idiocy of this, it just goes to highlight what I'm always saying:

USE YOUR DAMN FRIENDSLOCK!

Don't post something public if it can get you in trouble unless you know that and consider it worth the risk.

This has been a public service announcement, courtesy of my second-favorite government agency.

While we're discussing this, I think it's only fair to say that my dad had an FBI file. Yup. My dad, the commie marxist.

Taken from griffen.

An article in the Times about toy choices...

Really, it just confirms what I already knew...

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Interesting linguistics post, all about the r/s thing.

Now with 25% more bathroom graffiti!

Please thank squittycat for this.

What's really cool is that something vaguely similar happened in Latin (and I was just discussing this with my mother, too!) See, in Latin, the third declinsion kindasorta has the ending -s for the singular nominative case. So rex, regis is really regs, regis (with the stem being reg) except that voiced stops assimilate to unvoiced stops before s (so urbs is pronounced urps). This was true for the word honos, honosis, which meant honor. However, there was a language-wide change where s between vowels became r, so for a long time we had the irregular honos, honoris. And then the noun regularized into honor, honoris, giving us the word honor that we have today. It's still kinda irregular, but it's the third declension, nobody cares.

Going to see the eclipse soon.

See you there!

Very nice, the eclipse.

Question!

If you do something, you have done it once.
The next time makes twice.
After that you will have done it thrice.
Then what?
Quice? Quats? What?

I can't believe I missed this!

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