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Want to hear a funny hamster related story?

Of course you do

This is Codetta (ironically, Coda for short), my six month old dwarf hamster. She’s the sweetest, sassiest ball of floof to ever walk this earth and I want to make her happy

And she was clearly very unhappy in her cage, she’d got bigger over the last month and was quite clearly cramped, so I knew I needed to get her a bigger one

Being a student I don’t have the resources to hand to build a cage from scratch, so I found a flatpack wooden cage online and decided to go for it

I knew this cage was big, which was what coda needed, but I didn’t realise how completely fUCked I was until the box arrived the next day:

(this is my housemate Tash for reference, Tash is very tall)

I tried not to completely freak out until I’d opened it though, because I thought it was was plausible that it was just very well padded and that when all the pieces were screwed in, it wouldn’t look quite as large in context

But three hours and a lot of screwdrivers later

I had never been more wrong in my life

This is for a hamster three inches long bear in mind

And we can comfortably fit my housemate in it, with room to spare:

I’ve had to rearrange my bedroom because there’s only one spot against the wall where this monstrosity will fit

My landlord for next year doesn’t even know I have a hamster yet, let alone one that lives in a house bigger than some London studio apartments

I haven’t even told my family because my mother, who will be helping me move my stuff back to her home at the end of this academic year, is actually going to crucify me

At the end of the day the main thing is that my little ham is now living her best life in a house relative to her size that’s bigger than anything I could ever dream of residing in, at 6 months old she’s truly the luckiest hamster in the world

(and of course, when you’re in this position, what other name could me and my housemates give this monstrosity of a cage other than the Hamsion™️)

Some updates for anyone interested:

my landlord is fine with me having a hamster, so Coda can happily live in my new house when I move in in August

when my mum finally saw the hamsion, to my surprise she just found it funny, and she just seems to think that I have the best cared for hamster in the world

I managed to successfully transport the

Hamsion™️ out of my student house and back to my parents’ for the summer; as I write this Coda is happily running in her wheel, and all is well.

Good.