November 2002

Badger's entry:  Wow we've got a new brother, Willow.  He is great, he tells me stories like how mum found him in the woods.  And how he was kept in quarantine, that's a special place upstairs.  Now we have a new home, it's enormous.  There are shelves and tunnels and lot's of room for running around in.  Willow goes bonkers and bounces around, I join in and we roll around together fighting.  Willow is heaps more fun than Biscuit.

I had to go back to the vets for some different medicine, mum and dad really want me to get better.  I'm trying very hard, I eat lots of food and run around and play.  I am feeling a lot better and I don't sneeze as much.  My fur is loosing some of it's colour, mum says "it may have been because I was so poorly."  My stripe is more silvery now instead of brown, I'm still the cutest though.  I am even growing more now too, I am bigger than Willow, he doesn't seem to grow at all.

Willow's entry:  I didn't know what was happening when my new mum first brought me home.  I'd been living in a shoe box and it wasn't much fun.  When I got to my new home I was a bit frightened, even though yummy things kept being put in the cage with me I still wasn't very happy.  Then I met Biscuit and Badger and we all moved into this really big home together, I was so happy.  I felt a lot safer with my new brothers around me.  Mum explained that I had to spend some time on my own to make sure I was okay and they had to be sure Badgers sneezing wasn't something I could catch.

Our home is big there are loads of places to sleep, run, bounce and climb.  It is great I am so happy, I like to show my happiness by bouncing and jumping.  Sometimes I bounce on Biscuit and he doesn't like that especially when he is trying to sleep.  Badger is more fun, he fights with me and we bounce around together.  I have to be careful when mum gets me out of the cage, I get really excited and fall off things.  Mum says I could hurt myself especially if I fall along way.  I just love to bounce.

Biscuit's entry:  I like Willow because he plays with Badger so I can get more sleep.  I have a special little igloo high up in our new home.  Mum says it is a hamster igloo and when I've finished growing I might not fit in it anymore, I hope that's not true.  It is all warm in my igloo and the others can't find me when I don't want to play.

Another Entry from Willow:  I had a little accident and hurt my leg I had to limp around, it really hurt to stand on it.  I was playing in our home and kinda fell off a shelf and I banged my head as well.  I didn't feel very well at all, mum was worried because I was acting so strangely.  I had to go to the vets and he made sure I hadn't broken any bones.  It isn't much fun I can't bounce around and I squeak if Biscuit or Badger push me about.  I should have listened to mum, I just love to bounce.  I am starting to feel better now, I can walk and climb again.  I promise to try and be more careful.