When I got Sunshine it was August 2012 and she is a teddy bear Syrian hamster. When I got her it was just after I got $100 for my report card from my dad. With the money I bought her, I picked her out of a group of female Syrian hamsters because she was neither aggressive nor timid. Sunshine had a very calm nature. I got her from Petco in Bangor. I got Nugget and Midnight from Pet Pro. In Petco I always got a carrying cage after I got Sunshine.

When I got Sunshine home she and I did not click like I did with Nugget. I slowly hand tamed her by feeding her treats through the bars of the cage. Slowly and gradually she learned to trust me. Sunshine did not mind being weighed. I weighed her on a food scale, which she did not mind, unlike Nugget. Sunshine was the kind of hamster that had no real favorites when it came to food. I also tried to teach her to stay, but she more often than not would not do it. So she wasn’t very trust worthy. One incident that I had with her when she was free roaming around my room was that she got trapped under a bookshelf. When I found her by moving it I accidently hurt her leg, and taught me to be more careful with her and to always keep an eye on her. Another incident that I had that woke me from a dead sleep, where I was having a dream that Sunshine was escaping from her cage to find that she had! She had bent the wires on top of the cage and escaped. I looked for her and finally found her. I felt scared when I was looking for her, and relief when I found her. I scolded her by say, “Sunshine don’t ever do that again to me!”