Achievement Unlocked with Puffy

We bought a new hamster, Cheesepuff Lim Youtiao. I asked to get him bcos I was feeling so empty whenever I looked at that empty space that Cookie used to occupy

Puffy is a yellow blue pudding hamster. While I wanted to get a hamster, Daddy Lim chose him, selecting the smallest hamster of the lot. I was actually eyeing the other big fat lazy one. Hoho. 

I haven't blogged about Puffy bcos we haven't had much bonding with him. One of our worries was that he wouldn't match up to Cooks and unfortunately it is the case. Cooks was so loving and so willing to be carried while Puffy is totally jumpy and he bites, so much and so hard. We should have gotten the fat lazy one lah.

We had been trying to overcome his biting issue. How ah? Google says to give him time,  not scare him, let him get familiar with us and trust us. This is attempted via multiple bites and some of them are so hard that Daddy Lim and Nana saw blood. Only the 2 of them are brave enough to try over and over again. Nana got so upset one time after a hard bite that she declares that she hates Puffy. Sob. Then she went back trying a few days later. So brave. I think we are not more scare of him than him of us. 

After many, many attempts, Nana recently says that Puffy seems to not bite her when she puts her hand in his cage. Then soon after, she manages to hold him!! 

After Nana tried, Zaky and I did too but were quickly giving him back to Nana in case Puffy changes his mind. 

He did. Soon after, he bit Nana that she dropped him. Then when placing him back into his cage, he bit Nana so hard that he was hanging from her finger while Nana when "ouch, ouch, ouch". Heng not me. Haha

 

Nana is so brave.

Mummy Lim