Errrh-eee, Errrh-eee, Errrh-eee

by Meg on December 8, 2006

He’ll get up there!

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Take a listen…

Err_eee_erh_eee_erh_eee

Lucy K., How high did he climb?

{ 72 comments }

1 Allie 12.08.06 at 2:42 am

Daww ^^

2 Jonathan Dalecki 12.08.06 at 2:42 am

That may seriously be the cutest thing I’ve ever seen posted here. He’s like Spiderman!

3 Mika 12.08.06 at 2:42 am

O_O oh my gosh! that fur looks SO soft!! Go little ham! You can do it!!!

4 Lucy K 12.08.06 at 2:47 am

That little hammie is named Sammie. She belongs to my friend in the Netherlands, and she regularly climbs all the way to the ceiling. Her person has to act as a human safety net. Sammie’s favorite foods are raspberries and pears. Could that get ANY cuter?

5 Theresa 12.08.06 at 2:47 am

I LOVE the toes!

6 agent 12.08.06 at 2:49 am

it’s an amster-ham!

7 Melike 12.08.06 at 2:53 am

What a beautiful hamster!

8 kanasaii 12.08.06 at 2:53 am

Awwwwwwwwww!!!
Look @ the wee feet going up that wall!!! that little furball!

9 stina 12.08.06 at 2:55 am

I had a hamster kind of like that once — he’d get out of his cage in the middle of the night and climb up my dangling leg onto the bed… I have no idea why, but he really liked climbing up into the bed…

BTW, “Sammie the hammie”? How adorable!!

10 fatal_fluffy 12.08.06 at 2:56 am

Lucy K — that almost sounds like a personals ad :) . ‘Sammie the hammie loves raspberries and pears. She also likes poetry and moonlit climbs to the ceiling.’

11 _julz 12.08.06 at 3:11 am

Hehe, does anyone else hear alpine yodelling when looking at this picture?

cheers!

12 MamaDawn 12.08.06 at 3:19 am

Spiderham, Spiderham
goes wherever a spider can…

13 acelightning 12.08.06 at 3:23 am

It’s the textured (stucco?) walls that make it possible for Sammie-hammie to ascend to such heights. Those tiny toesies can find a grip on even the slightest bit of unevenness. Sammie’s humans had better not put up tile, or even vinyl wallpaper…

14 E. Collison 12.08.06 at 3:29 am

I love the little ears and stubby tail – great capture.

15 Jackie from Michigan 12.08.06 at 3:30 am

“I…must…climb…higher!”

16 Mel 12.08.06 at 3:34 am

Weird.

17 Peg of Tilling 12.08.06 at 3:44 am

Thanks for starting it, MamaDawn:

Spiderham, Spiderham,
Goes wherever a spider can
Climbs a wall–
Any height!
Get on his wheel
And runs all night–
Lookout lookout lookout
Here comes the Spiderham…

Well, he does kinda look like Tobey MacGuire from the back.

18 pookiepuff 12.08.06 at 3:46 am

Is that hammie really crawling up that wall?!?! He’s so cute! I’m want to eeeat him!

19 Redzilla 12.08.06 at 3:52 am

Okay, how many people immediately thought “Spiderham” on seeing this little crawler? I know MD and PoT did, but the rest of you, raise your hands.

20 artschild 12.08.06 at 4:05 am

I want video!!

21 JimK 12.08.06 at 4:10 am

Hampster-Man,
Hampster-Man,
Climbs like only
a hampster can
scales a wall
to the top
where-upon
he does a flop.
Look out!
Here comes the Hampster-Man!

22 Megan 12.08.06 at 4:13 am

Check out those grasping toeses!

23 jubilee 12.08.06 at 4:13 am

(background song from Sound of Music)
…climb every mountain…

24 Theo 12.08.06 at 4:17 am

….OHHH no. Not THAT again.
;)

(forrrd every streeeam…)

25 E. Collison 12.08.06 at 4:34 am

Gawrsh, my bunnage got kinda freaked out by the sound effects….

26 eikoleigh 12.08.06 at 4:43 am

OMG – that’s a lot of upper body strength on a little bitty ham ham!

27 falnfenix 12.08.06 at 4:50 am

omg

the sounds

omg

i r ded. my hed go asplody.

28 Kaye 12.08.06 at 4:59 am

Can you imagine if your house was infested with these guys? D:

29 CP 12.08.06 at 5:05 am

Who made the sounds? … I sincerely hope they weren’t recorded, you know, nocturnally.

30 SPB 12.08.06 at 5:10 am

Well, I’ve had hamsters for years, but I’ve never had one climb up the wall. Hmm… maybe I just don’t have the right kind of walls. :)

“amster-ham” how funny!

Cute spidey poems, too.

31 trin 12.08.06 at 5:12 am

Yep, thought of Spider-ham immediately. Delighted by the lyrics, I will sing them to myself for the next few days… at the very least.

32 Sarah 12.08.06 at 5:26 am

Surely you mean
“ehn…ehn…ehhhhhhhnnn”

33 Claudia 12.08.06 at 5:27 am

No, I didn’t think of Spiderham. I thought of my hammie who crossed the rainbow bridge the Friday before Thanksgiving. I miss the little bugger. I got him from a coworker who bought him on impulse and didn’t want him any more. Fourth one I’ve adopted like that. I suspect that after Christmas I’ll hear about another one.

34 Beth 12.08.06 at 5:36 am

If only I saw this little cutie climbing up my bedroom wall instead of the usual spider…

Hooray for cute little black-tipped ears!

35 AmyH 12.08.06 at 6:04 am

I’d gladly be infested by amster-spider-hams instead of scorpions. I would get snorgles instead of stings. What a happy day that would be! Disclaimer – scorps are currently dormant. I’d like my nest of hams to be active year-round.

36 Martha in Washington 12.08.06 at 6:07 am

I immediately thought of Fred Astaire in “Royal Wedding”. That’s the one where he dances up the walls and across the ceiling. Very cool!
Very a-door-bell Hammy!

37 Martha in Washington 12.08.06 at 6:19 am

Teh Qte keeled my compooter. I had to reboot it.
Then I listened to the “soundtrack” and OMG even more cute. This d**n ‘pooter just can’t take it anymore…

38 Christina 12.08.06 at 6:29 am

Gosh, that is just sooo cute. I’ve said it many times – I love hammies so much.

One of mine used to climb everywhere she could (though never like this!). She’d climb sturdily on top of the wheel (usually without falling off) and lift the top off the aquarium in order to make escape attempts. Until I put a big dictionary on top, that is. But she was so gentle and spunky that I took her out for play often. She’d climb on me, up to my shoulder, atop my head, anywhere she could.

She once escaped at my dad’s and was found knocking over tapes on the 2nd or 3rd level of his stereo cabinet.

Appropriately enough, I’d named her Monkey.

39 AlbertaGirl 12.08.06 at 6:39 am

Go, hampants, go! You can do eet!

40 Aubrey 12.08.06 at 6:59 am

“High on the wall was an agile hamster
Lay ee odl lay ee odl-oo

Loud was acclaim for the agile hamster
Lay ee odl, lay ee odl-oo

Cute Overload went and took his picture
Lay ee odl, lay ee odl layee-oo
Happy were cheers from the CO peeps heard
Lay ee odl, lay ee odl-oo”

41 Aubrey 12.08.06 at 7:01 am

Martha, didn’t you have to re-cute your computer first?

42 eikoleigh 12.08.06 at 8:40 am

OMG, the sound effects are the best-est…! Totally what I envision and way too cute.

43 europeia 12.08.06 at 9:41 am

Hi, I’m the proud owner :)

It takes her under 10 seconds to get all the way to the top… where she will bite the roof and try to escape the apartment. Until she tries to turn around to climb down… and falls into my waiting hands. It was a quicksnap as I don’t want her to fall when I’m taking pictures; first and last shot of her climbing up!

Amsterham, eh? She lives IN a pot, she doesn’t smoke it ;)

44 Kate 12.08.06 at 9:52 am

Intrepid ham!

My hammy, Spike, used to climb up behind the bookcase SAS-style, with his back against the upright and his feets against the wall. Don’t know how he managed to turn around at the top, but he would end up pottering around on the top shelf.

Interesting, this reverse-lemming instinct…

45 Tammie in Nebraska 12.08.06 at 10:45 am

I once had a hamster. She would sometimes escape during the night and would always head straight for my mother’s bedroom. Would climb up on the bed and scare the hec out of her. Mom would be in there calling for me to “come get this rat”! LOL

46 rik 12.08.06 at 10:51 am

a friend of mine used to keep hamsters. he used to let them out for an explore around the house. in order to keep track of them, he used to feed them a couple of unshelled peanuts before he let them go. you could keep track of where they were by the rattling of pouched peanuts…

47 Skielar 12.08.06 at 11:46 am

oooh! that hamham would be a perfect “suitor” for my TinkerBelle…Netherlands you say eh? crap :|
He’s a cutie :)

48 AmyPrime 12.08.06 at 12:17 pm

My hamster Ricky used to climb up the side of his cage (which was about 3′ tall), despite me having put ladders in for him. He could only go vertically, not horizontally, though, so when he reached the top, he would let go with his top feet and *fall over* onto the top shelf. Hilarious.

49 Subhangi 12.08.06 at 1:12 pm

AWWWWWW. I wish I could replace all the spiders in my room with hammies instead.

And an !OLE! for Aubrey.

50 blueberries4me 12.08.06 at 1:55 pm

Love the arm chubbage

51 NebraskaErin 12.08.06 at 2:21 pm

*raises hand*

I also thought of Spider-ham.

All these stories of climbing hammies. Mine doesn’t have the inclination to do much but stay in her cage or run around the apartment in her ball. Maybe it’s because I also have two kittehs, but she definitely prefers the safety of the cage.

52 Redzilla 12.08.06 at 2:32 pm

Aubrey, you can be my nanny anytime!

53 Clay Dowling 12.08.06 at 2:42 pm

“Cats! Oh my God, they got cats! How high can those things jump?”

54 Argentee 12.08.06 at 2:48 pm

A friend of mine in college had a dare-devil hammie and two kittehs. She’d put the hammie in its ball, and it would run straight at a kitteh, who would *WHAP* the ball across the room. Poor lil hamm would be plastered to the side of its ball by the force. When it stopped spinning, hammikins would pick itself up, shake itself off… and run straight back at the kitteh!

Silly little fluff… We figured it must be the hammie version of a roller coaster.

55 Crystal 12.08.06 at 3:01 pm

Hmm, that sounded uncomfortably similar to my parents’ bedsprings.

56 Theo 12.08.06 at 3:04 pm

LOL, Crystal.
And Argentee.
And Clay.

57 A thinker 12.08.06 at 3:11 pm

Wow. That is one seriously athletic hammie.

58 DKN 12.08.06 at 3:17 pm

Hee hee! Looks like this little “Amster-ham” has been puffin’ on the Hamsterdam cheeba they got over there givin’ him some super-hammer strength!

59 musicchick2 12.08.06 at 4:27 pm

OMG! While I enjoy all the cute postings and song adaptations, when I got to Argentee’s I LITERALLY laughed out loud! I have 2 cats as well, and have been thinking about getting (them) a hamster and ball to play with. That must be HYSTERICAL!!

60 Poet with a Day Job 12.08.06 at 5:04 pm

Please keep doing this site and adding your hilarity for the rest of my life, puhlease.

61 A 12.08.06 at 5:11 pm

Wow.. how big is that hamster??

62 Arvay 12.08.06 at 5:17 pm

Whoa. I didn’t even know that that was possible! My rats couldn’t even do that (well, not that I know of!), and rats are supposed to be more dexterous than hams. Holy moly!

63 Aubrey 12.08.06 at 5:45 pm

Redz, really?

(tears down curtains)

64 europeia 12.08.06 at 5:55 pm

Reading some comments above I think some people should be forbidden to have pets.

Y’all hunt too, I guess?

65 Clay Dowling 12.08.06 at 6:51 pm

Arvey, I’m not sure that a rat couldn’t climb that given sufficient motivation. I can think of a couple of forms of motivation that would probably get the rat up the wall, but could be pretty hard on the rat. The best bet might be a friendly lady rat on a shelf at the top. Probably get the little fellows to scamper right up the wall then.

66 carolina 12.08.06 at 8:04 pm

Damn, I spend 30 hours away from C.O. and I come back here and am just ASSAILED by teh cute! I’m reeling here!

Suggestion to The Editors:

This picture should appear next to the definition of REDONK in the C.O. glossary!

67 Jenn 12.08.06 at 8:09 pm

Reeely, I was BORN to be a flying squirrel, this ludicrous body is all a big mistake… watch, I shall demonstrate how I can FLY!

68 Martha in Washington 12.08.06 at 8:44 pm

We useta hava hamster but when he escaped at night all he did was come into our bedroom and hide in our shoes. I’d wake up to little scritchy noises and punch my husband to wake him up so he could climb out of the nice warm bed and catch the little rodent and put him back in his bed.

69 LB in Cali 12.08.06 at 8:51 pm

amster-ham

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

70 Jody 12.09.06 at 4:37 am

I have a Sammy the Hammy too, only mine is a boy Sammy. I’m sure he’d have a crush on this little schnookums!

71 mrbunsrocks 12.09.06 at 5:50 am

Love him!

72 Brak_Silverbone 12.11.06 at 1:51 am

My cat Sheba, who is currently sitting in my lap, was VERY interested in the “errh-ee” sounds. No doubt she’d be very interested in a Climbin’ Ham, too.

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