Struggling to name my hamster

I bought my first hamster with my partner when I was 20, we wanted a dog but our living situation made a hamster much more realistic. We called our first hamster Stewie.

We moved into a new house and got a puppy who we called Dexter but Stewie was no less loved (although less money was spent on him)

Stewie died a number of months ago and we got a new hamster and called him Sheldon. It's nice to have fur-friends, regardless of whether people think us in their 20's having such pets is stupid!

I call my pets after favourite TV shows - as you can see :-)

In sharing random hamster stories our last hamster only once escaped in the night. I was woken up by my husband saying, "Ninja's out" so I got out of bed thinking he had heard the hamster moving around the flat then I realised he already had the hamster in his hands. It turned out Ninja had broken out of his cage and come into the bedroom, where we were asleep. There was a cushion from the bed on the floor next to the bed and he climbed onto the cushion, and onto the duvet that was hanging from the bed - he was running up and down James's legs in the night! It's a good job he realised who it was as his instinct was that it was a rat or something!


Sheldon isn't bad.

Oh my goodness I'd be freaking out if that happened!

In ref to the other post, my best friend Emma is 33, her husband is 40. They have 2 miniature Wabbits two cats and 2 Roborovski hamsters. My aunt and uncle are 72 and have (as long as I can remember) had 2 guinea pigs!