What's slightly better than cleaning after spilled food from a child

So you always hear about how much a hamster can store in its mouth. I figured okay maybe a sunflower seed or two. But the other day I was floored by what happened at the counter. Rachel was holding the oh-so-cute 'Scampers' who is a male (yes, very certain he is a male as it turns out hamster don't quite share the same proportionality as humans in that department) Chinese dwarf hamster. He is cute, especially when hanging out in Trent's front shirt pocket. So back to the story...she is holding him when he suddenly opens his mouth and decides to jettison all food stores he was presently carrying. See for yourself


Oh he's a crafty one. He knew precisely what he was doing. You can see it on his guilty little face.



Protecting himself from possible choking as he was passed from one child to the next. In Air Force terms, he was producing FOD (Foreign Object Debris) which also can produce FOD (Foreign Object Damage), yes only the highest ranks of the government can create two acronyms which relate to each other but have two different meanings. I have become so versed in them, I can spew forth pages of them at will.

Then said FOD caused FOD as the corn kernel lodged into my heel (another curse I'll write about someday). I swear no matter how much sweeping I did I still stepped on bird seed for the rest of that week until the floor was mopped. Oh well, we love our Scampers. By the way, it's my turn to clean out the cage this week. UGHHHH!