In which trek plays the name game

Little Feet the hamster came to live with us nearly two years ago. Sadly, hamsters do not have the longest of life-spans and this hamster was already a year old when we adopted her. She lived with us for 16 months, until was a very elderly lady. Little Feet scampered across the Rainbow Bridge one snowy night back in February.

We thought on and off about getting another hamster.

Last night we tried to do so. The pet shop closest to us, where we always bought Little Feet's food and bedding was out of hamsters. We drove across town to the other major pet shop chain. Neatnik requested that we get the sole dark furred hamster in the glassed in cubicle. Number Guy and I agreed, so I picked up a cardboard box containing a suitable habitatand made our way to the cash register out front. I told the cashier that we needed assistance because we wanted to buy a hamster. She said okay and we thought she went to get someone to help us.

Little did we know that securing assistance was not on her list of priorities for the evening.

The cashier came back and told us that they do not sell small animals within half an hour of closing. We were a good twenty minutes from their posted closing time and did I mention that we were the only customers in the store? Yeah, the cashier had been staring vacantly out the front window when we entered the store and had not had to ring a sale during the few minutes we spent checking out the rodents.

Of course, I asked to speak to the manager. She came out and very haughtily informed me that we couldn't just buy a hamster, it is a whole process and that she had to make sure that we had everything we needed in order to properly care for one of their hamsters. You see, the animals come first there.

I put the habitat box on the floor and we left.

After church this morning, we went to another pet shop in the chain which we like. We picked out a hamster and a habitat.and a Clear Plastic Ball of Freedom(also known as a CPBF).

Allow me to introduce to the blog, Sir Currently Nameless.

We are still arguing over a name. Early on, I suggested Twitch and Neatnik suggested Peanut. Neatnik then ran through, in rapid succession, a list of rather silly names, then suggested Buddy and Acorn.

Sir Currently Nameless spent most of the afternoon exploring the first floor of chez trek in his CPBF and romping around his fancy new hamster habitat. This lead me to propose Magellan and Kamikaze.

The jury is still out on names. Any suggestions? Please?

Neatnik and Number Guy just decided to call him "Rodent" for the time being.

Halp!