RIP my dear Momo

My dearest Momo passed away today.

I found in her usual spot - all curl up inside her food bowl, sleeping peacefully when i come back from work. The only difference between today and the other days is that she never wake up from her sleep even though how much i coax her with the fresh vegetable or fruits. Usually upon smelling the vege, without opening her eyes, she will start to move her little arms around and stretch them as far as possible to feel for the food. Once she located it, she will grab it back and start munching it while her eyes are still closed.

Her favourite past time when she is wide awake - is running on her wheel. She can run for hours and usually her wide awake time is from midnight to early morning. To tease her, if you take out the wheel from her tank, she will always have this frantic look and start banging her hands on the wall of the tank - like saying "let me out, where is my wheel" until you put back the wheel into the tank and she will go all calm and happy inside her wheel again.

My sister and I had a hard time when we bury her little body in the flower bed behind my house today.

Momo, thank you for staying with me these 2 years.
You will always be in my heart. Love you lots.

Won

Hello, Momo the hammy is here again.



Shushu is taking a break due to his injury and Kero is somewhere sulking, so I thought i will pop by to say hello. As you know, this chinese new year is the year of rat and my owner said I should be happy coz I am a part of the rodent family so this year will be my year. Yay!! even our blog has pictures of hammies with the CNY greeting on the top. This has made me very pleased.

However, one thing i am not pleased about is that my silly owner has this crazy idea to take a photoshoot of me with some CNY stuff to make it more festive....

This is what happened:








I got so mad I keep running around her room to cool off.



Well, this is what my owner has come up with from the short short photoshoot. Hope you all like it!





p/s: Did i mention that Kero was sulking somewhere?

Tell you all a secret, Kero is unhappy with our owner coz she yet to get him a CNY year costume, kekeke! Hope we will have more to update on CNY later!
See ya!

Love,
momo

New Christmas Banner & Greetings from Momo

Hi! This is Momo here.

It has been a long time since I appear on the blog. Thank you for everyone's concern. I am alive and well, just a slightly troubled by my current head condition. It made me a little bit unbalance and i had to tilt my head one side to look at stuff. My master now called me "senget" (tilted) head momo.

Per the information from our vet, I must have hit my head while playing and injured a nerve at my neck. The nerve is connected to my right eye. As you can see from the above picture, my right eye is now a bit displaced - there is some slight whitish portion instead of a whole black coloured eye like my left one. Our vet said that most likely I will not recover from this and this has made my master a little bit sad.

I love running on my wheel a lot. However, I tend to hit my head on the wheel most of the time when running. So recently, my master has took off my running wheel to help me to heal better.That has made me a little bit grumpy, as I love my wheel very much and i need the exercise to keep myself beautiful and fit. After nagging my master a lot, she has relented and let me run around her room daily to replace the exercise. I love running in her room. I even found a little corner (near the window), where i love to hide when i play hide and seek with my master. She never fail to find me there when I disappear from her view. She called it my momo's corner.

Here is a recent video of me. However, you can see that the nosey Kero keep barging in and trying to distract my master from taking my video. Hmmmph, that naughty naughty kero....


Oh yah, we have a new lovely christmas banner - all of us are in it. Can you spot me in the banner? We would like to thank Abby the dogzilla's talented owner, for drawing a beautiful christmas banner for us. Our owner likes it very much!

That's all for now!
This is Momo signing off.

A little update on Momo

Here is a recent video of momo:

Her head is still slanted (senget) but otherwise she is still active. The vet said her slanted head might be permenant since she didn't recover in 7 days (the nerve dies in 7 days). However, we still haven't give up hope yet. Currently, we have remove her wheels temporarily to see whether it will help in her recovery or not. I am letting her run in my room daily to replace the wheel exercise. Besides that. we also got her some organic powder to boost her health up. Hopefully it helps!



As seen in the video, momo is a bit camera shy. As soon as i take out my camera, she will hide in her house......she does peek out from her house time to time and only comes out when i take away the camera.

momo is sick!

On thursday night my master discover something funny with momo, her head is tilted to the right side. My master was a little alarm but she thought maybe momo sprained her neck while sleeping and it will be alright soon.

Friday the whole day master and miss sister went to fetch the my little brother so no time to check on momo. However by Saturday, momo's head is still tilting and my master was very alarm now. She asked around and was informed that momo probably got some ear infection and may need vet consultation. She called my vet but he said he doesn't treat hamster. My master was disappointed and asked whether he knows any vet that does so in Ipoh. Unfortunately, he had no idea. She called another vet and that vet also said they don't treat hamster as well. My master was very sad. Because momo's head tilted, she was walking funny and sometimes lost her balance. Master miss momo standing on the home/salon antic, momo can't does it currently as she tends to lose her balance when standing.

momo walks funny now

hope momo gets well soon!!!

Update:13/11/2007

Brought momo to shushu's vet yesterday. The vet did a body check on momo and noted momo has injured a nerve at her neck. He said it is quite serious and he is not sure whether momo will get better but gave some medication to help her condition. Poor momo!

sleepy momo

One afternoon, master saw something funny.
She found momo half asleep while doing her business in the toilet....






silly sleepyhead momo....kekeke



hmmm, where is shushu?

enjoying his afternoon siesta also....

conclusion: both also sleepyhead!!!

momo & her pingpong ball

Sis gave momo a white pingpong ball to play with last week.
For the first 2 days, momo ignore the ball but on the 3rd day morning, we saw something interesting:

Momo in action:




Here a video showing momo and her ping pong boll. She got shy when we video and quickly left the ball alone after that:


Hope you all enjoy the pictures!

Raya special gift - Momo

Sorry for the lack of updates!

On 13 October 2007 (Saturday) around 4.30am, brother come back with a special guest - he is bringing one of Foo's syrian hamster home. She is sable banded, so she has a nice grey and white spot body. My sister named her Momo. Momo is a very active and curious hammy. She is very attached to her wheels but loves to peek everytime she hears some sound. Momo is a very cool hamster too. Shushu barked at her but she just carry on running on her wheel.

close up picture of little momo:


momo eating


inside her foodbowl



momo loves standing and observing people




Here is a picture of her tank setup:


A little video on her first day home:


Hope momo have a happy stay with us!!!