Mu will always be my first baby. For the grumpy little picky eater he was, he still loved me, and that's what counted. Mu was fighter too. He lived through a heat stroke, cold, escaping his cage three times, the stupid girls at cheer camp stuffing him under my pillow and nearly sitting on him, and living in my room for two days with a stupid person clapping and screaming at him. He held on through everything and I loved him so much for it.

Momma took me out to get a new hamster.

He's a beautiful little two-week old short-haired named Shamu. He's a grey-ish brown and white color; VERY pretty eyes. He's really young, so he'll prolly be my buddy through college too. I was thinking of getting a dwarf hamster at first. ADORABLE little things, and the signs all said they were VERY social. Every store clerk told me just the opposite though O_o Said that they bite and take a awhile to tame. I even wanted to see one and it bit the poor clerk three times.

So I asked to see Shamu. Lil guy contently running in his wheel and graciously sharing it with the male hamster next to him. (Most males hamsters will just GO AT IT with each other, so that was a good sign.) When they put him in the box and let me pet him, he was so calm. He would follow my hand wherever it went. He was very social, and as it was, no one had really handled him before. So that was a VERY good sign. When we came back again, he was still in his wheel. So apparently he loves his excercise XD

In fact, now as I type this, lil Shamu has already gotten used to his new home, and is running like a maniac in his wheel.

I still miss Mu, and it still makes me cry to think about him. But Shamu's made it a lot easier to breathe.

Lots of love to my new beginning, Shamu "The Killer Hamster" Kunzaki.

-Chi <3