Home Improvement Project: Cookie

The kids have their 1st ever 4-legged pet in November 2020. It had been 3 months and Cookie is still very much alive. 

He gets fed once a day, usually in the morning and feeding is not my job. Daddy Lim or the kids will feed him. Unfortunately, I didn't get scot-free -- I am the cleaning auntie. Sob. 

Cookie's cage gets clean once a week, during the weekend. I do most of the washing and whether I get help or not is dependent on how loud I yell at people. Then again, I have become so efficient at this cage cleaning business that it didn't take me too long. Daddy Lim and the kids usually helped to man Cookie while I wash his cage and tunnel and they helped to fix up his cage when the washing is done. His tunnels get put out to dry and I usually fix up his tunnels a few days later, depending on when I remember to do so. Hoho. 

Cookie loves his tunnels. I think it gives him extra space to squirm and explore and that sometimes reduces his cage biting that usually takes place in the morning. Maybe he bites in the night as well while the humans are all in lala land. 

I am now super familiar with the fixing up of the tunnels but realized that in recent days, Cookie no longer access a certain part of the tunnel. Why? He is too fat le. Hohoho. 

He has definitely grew in the 3 months that we had him. 

See, he is a ball now! Hohoho. Takes after Zaky for sure and Cookie continues to love his food, certain food. He is sure one picky hamster. 

In certain parts of his tunnel, we have these skinny tubes.

When we 1st got him, he was so small and could u-turn in those tubes. Now, I caught him peddle with his little feet desperately trying to squirm through those tubes. No wonder he no longer go to the parts of the tunnel where he had to pass through those skinny tubes. I was also half wondering if he would one day get stuck and would need us to help "poke" him through. Hoho. 

This morning, I have "upgraded" his tunnel, replacing the skinny ones. 

The "new" upgraded tunnel is more complicated and atas. From 2 bedroom unit to 3 bedroom. Hoho. Yours truly now have more pieces of that tunnel to wash. Zzzzz. 

Mummy Lim