…and [snicker!] MC2. “SPODE!”

I may have to start using that.

Molly — I’m no rodent expert, but to my eye, it looks like you’re spot on.

i just though by the coloring it looks like a winter white rather than an opal russian. it looks exactly like mine but i’m still not quite sure what mine is (he is getting darker because i put him near a heater) so i think he’s a winter white cuz he is changing coloring.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Phodopus_sungorus_2_-_Colour_corrected.jpg

also i think that he is on a pillow that is leaning, that is how mine looks when he is running down something!!!

um… that was supposed to be *SPLODE!* Not the name of a china dishware company.

Didja see the pikchur wif the little peenk bow on her head? *SPODE!*

….Or, I could look at the original picture caption, and conclude that he is being slid down said sling of fabric, and the legs out are brakes. o.O

HAR. Splategory. Surely even the disapproving rabbits would approve.

Catfan, that’s a Russian dwarf hamster, and the coloured dorsal stripe down the back is common to the breed. If we want to be serious, I would point out that the ‘blue background’ is actually fabric that is forming a sling in which the hammie is sitting – his legs are splayed to try and keep him upright on the wibbly surface.

Splategory NEEDS to happen.

Um yeah. That “incision” is a stripe.

i’m not kidding. the poor guy looks sad and immobilized. i would hope he’s ok…i love animals. but thanks for pointing out that he’s indeed someones pet. I’ll check out pyza’s pics.

catfan, are you worried or joking? Hammie is definitely a pet, not an experiment. It’s Pompon, friend of Chmurka. You can see them at pyza*’s photos on Flickr. That’s not an incision, just a stripe.