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Puffball and Dustball |
 Dustball and Puffball -- they seem like a perfect match! |
Most desert hamsters can live alone, in pairs, or in small groups. But we seem to have found a few that are different. First, we brought home Bright Spot, who insists on living alone.
Then we brought home Puffball, who refused to live (at least happily) alone. Puffball thought she would live happily ever after with Buffball and Fluffball, her cage mates at the pet shop that we brought home to cheer her up. But Fluffball developed a different plan for the future.
 Dustball and Puffball before they were formally introduced. |
At the exact same time that we were wondering how we would know which one of the desert hamsters that had just arrived at the pet shop would be the best match for Puffball, the desert hamsters there were doing something very unusual for desert hamsters. They were "beating up" one poor little desert hamster so he had to be separated from the others and put in a cage all by himself ...
So we walked into the pet shop and out with Dustball, who turned out to have multiple personalities. The first few chapters in this story went as follows:
 Puffball and Dustball have dinner together. |