Snackfood review: Yogurty Blueberry drops

[whiskas]

Editor's note: Since the kind person who donated these snacks sent them in a zip-lock bag, I don't know what brand they are. Possibly they are Kaytee, possibly they are--

Oooh. Petcetera has a Buy 2 Get 1 Free sale on for a Can O' Crickets or a Can O' Mealworms or Can O' Mini Crickets. Only $9.98 CAD, or about $6 US! Has anyone given these to their hamster before, and do they know if hamsters appreciate organic snacks like this?

Ahem. I seem to have gotten distracted. Back to the review.

whiskas here.

I was rudely awakened from my daily slumber by the loud sound of the door to my cell being wrenched off of its hinges.

I warily poked my head out of my bedding, only to find a large, fruity, yogurty substance being waved threateningly before my nose.

As I approached it to investigate, it floated away from me, wafting its blueberry scent at me as it bobbed in the air. When I turned my back on it and went back to bed, however, it returned and lurked in front of me. Eventually, I followed it to the bars of my cage, where it remained tantalizingly out of reach.

I licked at it through the cage bars. Oh, how I licked. But the thing would not budge.

After a while, the Giant Hand Of Doom descended from the heavens and placed me on the manual data input device. After I typed a comment to someone, the GHOD permitted me to have the blueberry drop, and I quickly hid it in my cheekpouch. There, I carefully protected my precious cargo until such a time that I could spew it out into my stash of Poops Being Saved For A Rainy Day.

Mmmm.

Editor's note:
Sorry to intrude again.
I think he really liked it.
The stashing-near-poop thing seems to be his way of saying:
"I like this, but am not prepared to finish it just yet."

Comments

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[countrymouse.livejournal.com]

Since you would know this more than I, *do* hamsters eat live crickets? The reason I am asking is that we have a neighbour downstairs; and sometimes we see a box outside his door that has "Live Crickets" marked on it! I have been wondering what kind of creature he has in his apartment, that likes live crickets...Thanks for any insight you may have into this mystery.

Crickets

[twotone]

Although most small animals (including hamsters; quite a few Japanese sites advocate the feeding of mealworms to hamsters as treats, while several US and British websites argue against feeding animal protein to hamsters as they may get a taste for live flesh) are capable of eating live insects in theory, it generally isn't a staple of their diet.

Frogs and other amphibians, and possibly small reptiles, may eat crickets. Crickets are also used to feed tarantulas and other large spiders.

Re: Crickets

[countrymouse.livejournal.com]

Frogs and other amphibians, and possibly small reptiles, may eat crickets. Crickets are also used to feed tarantulas and other large spiders.

Eep! I think I can deal with the idea of the former batch of peoples; but I am SO hoping the latter are not living in our apartment building....yeeeeeeep! and BLECH! and ::shuuudddddeeerrr::