This is Sweetie. Sweetie is evil. Grace didn't know this when she named her Sweetie. It turns out that the name is quite ironic. I know that when I say I have an evil hamster, it must sound like an I'm exaggerating, but I'm really not. If you have any doubt about this, come to my house and put your hand in her cage. She is the only hamster I've ever met who can seriously wound you in at least 5 different spots on your hand in 2 seconds flat. A few weeks ago I began to suspect that Sweetie may be a ninja. I began to notice that she has distinctly ninja-like reflexes and razor sharp teeth (or is it her nails, or both maybe?). I also noticed that Sweetie was dying to get out of her cage- all night long she tries to chew through her cage, you can hear the sound of her little teeth gnawing on the same spot all night long (she reminds me of the prisoner with a life sentence attempting to dig out of his cell with a spoon). The girls thought that I was just joking about her being a ninja, but last night my suspicion about her ninja status was confirmed when she used her ninja skills to escape from her locked cage. She somehow managed to to break out leaving behind a locked/sealed cage with no holes, loose doors or otherwise obvious ways to get out. We actually didn't notice she was out until she wounded our rabbit Cookie, who is at least ten times her size, but she left the poor baby bleeding and confused (I would imagine Cookie's a little humiliated as well, getting your ass kicked by a hamster can't be great for a rabbit's ego). She was out for at least 24 hours before we finally found her, and I have to admit, we were all a little scared knowing she was running loose in our house- we were protecting our toes a bit more than usual. When we finally found her, no one knew quite how to grab her without getting wounded, so we used thick work gloves- which of course she bit right through. She is safely back in her cage now, but I'm left wondering if she's going to be able to just get back out. Whether she's a ninja, Houdini, or something else I can't even guess- she clearly knows something we don't- specifically, how to get out of the cage with all doors latched. I don't know about my girls, but I suspect that I'll be sleeping with one eye open for a while...
She looks so unassuming, doesn't she?
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