An Extreme Home Makeover
Fun November 27th, 2008A hamster I know is having a terrible time of things. His name is Seamus (pronounced SHAY-mus). See, he used to live in this house until yesterday.
It was a rockin’ awesome house. A colorful, activity-filled pad that made him the envy of all his friends. Seamus used to have notorious parties there. The bass-thumping, booze-flowing kind, and a rave or two. The cops came once, but they couldn’t arrest anyone because they didn’t have handcuffs tiny enough.
Seamus’ owner decided that this cage was too hard to clean, and so I joined her on a trip to SuperPetz, where she picked out a new cage that was easier to maintain.
Seamus got an Extreme Home Makeover. And not the good kind. This is Seamus’ house now:
* Not Seamus
See how it’s a piece of crap? See how Seamus’ mother doesn’t love him anymore? Even though it’s been explained to him that the downturn in the economy is not the reason he was moved out of his condo and into slum housing, he’s having a hard time understanding.
Don’t worry, Seamus. I’m calling PETA in the morning.
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November 27th, 2008 at 7:25 pm
Oh, now I’m all upset :O( Poor Seamus, that not very nice! Who is that wicked mother?
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November 27th, 2008 at 7:27 pm
We had Seamus’ old cage set up for the clinic mice that lived at the veterinary clinic I used to work at.
The cage is really not that hard to clean.
How boring is Seamus’ new cage! Nothing to climb on, no cool tunnels to explore. Just a crappy wheel.
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November 27th, 2008 at 7:44 pm
Happy Thanksgiving! We hope that Seamus’s Mom gives him back his old cage soon.
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November 27th, 2008 at 8:26 pm
Now that is a darn shame. Moving the hapless rodent from his fun filled playboy pad to a crappy little shanty. what a grinch mom…
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November 27th, 2008 at 8:33 pm
Aw, poor Seamus. What a fantastic house. I would want to live there! Well, if I was a hampster I would want to live there. And that small house? Wouldn’t it be most unfortunnate if it mysteriously broke in the middle of the night?
November 27th, 2008 at 8:33 pm
Aww too funny…
November 27th, 2008 at 8:39 pm
Poor little Scottish rodent! I’m actually quite an advocate for rodents, and what you’ve done to this little guy is nothing if not appalling. I hope you feel guilty and make up for it at Christmas.
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November 27th, 2008 at 8:47 pm
Oh what a shame ! No pet should ever have to downgrade just because their person does not want to take the added responsibility.
Peeshaw !
If this is your level of commitment and if it remains at this level, come few weeks and you going to hate cleaning the new cage just as you did the old one !
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November 27th, 2008 at 8:55 pm
Poor Seamus! His old cage looked like so much more fun. Happy Thanksgiving, Kathy! (PS-The name Seamus makes me think of Stephen Colbert. It was his son’s name on Stranger’s With Candy. Just some useless trivia of mine.)
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November 27th, 2008 at 8:58 pm
Another result of eight years of the Bush administration. Not even the rodents are immune!
November 27th, 2008 at 8:58 pm
Jaffer’s got his eyes on again!
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November 27th, 2008 at 9:05 pm
Babs - beetle: Sorry Babs ! My my eyes fire up when I see helpless animals going through tough times !
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November 27th, 2008 at 9:30 pm
Seamus could have cooperated a bit with keeping the house clean, you know? Seamus wants, wants, wants, and his mother does, does, does. She’s tired! I don’t know, but I think most of the responsibility falls on Seamus. Just sayin’.
November 27th, 2008 at 9:55 pm
Bad, bad mother of Seamus…. that sucks. I’ve never heard of people trading DOWN for their pets!
I think Seamus needs to find a new owner who won’t complain about cleaning a tiny cage.
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November 27th, 2008 at 10:17 pm
[...] as a child. Maybe Santa brought him a Brite Lite instead of the Operation Game. It could be his hampster’s upscale home was replaced with low income housing. Maybe he was chased about the house by an older sibling who [...]
November 28th, 2008 at 12:30 am
I would probably be sleeping with one eye open for a while. Those hamsters can be pretty rough:)
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November 28th, 2008 at 12:36 am
You’re right - it IS an extremely bad makeover. Maybe Santa Claus will hook him up!
November 28th, 2008 at 1:20 am
Ooooh I bet Seamus is pissed! When I moved Princess Tempura Buttfluff from her small cage to a big wire one she was mad as heck for about a week - then she got over it.
But yeah, the wire cages are WAY easier to clean. Pop the ham in a ball and hose the thing out.
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November 28th, 2008 at 1:44 am
You do know, or I guess your finding out, that interpretation is some times taken entirely wrong on the Internet. I am especially fond of my jokes and humor that goes totally Awry and I spend ten times the amount of time explaining what it was I really meant while trying to mend fences. So much fun -
Junk Drawer on Twitter - “Oh, for crying out loud. My latest post is going in a weird direction. For the record, it was a humor piece and the hamster is LOVED
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Don’t you just love this medium we are forced to us e to communicate with - a cold heartless Keyboard.
I’m sure we would have been rolling if it would have been on a video. lol
Happy Thanksgiving.
Beamer
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November 28th, 2008 at 2:34 am
Poor Seamus! What happens to his deelux apartment? Maybe instead of getting Seamus a boring, easier to clean house, she should just hire Seamus a maid!
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November 28th, 2008 at 3:55 am
I think Seamus like the new home, look at the photo how happy he is! He even got a litle GF with it!
People you need to remember that things and stuff aren’t everything! I bet Seamus is loved a lot, who need more than that?
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November 28th, 2008 at 5:16 am
Hmmm. I am looking and looking but I do not see a closet for Seamus to keep his hamster fashions in. No wonder he is not happy with his new digs.
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November 28th, 2008 at 6:07 am
Hi, Everyone. Every once in a while, one of my posts is funnier in my head than it is on paper. This is one of them. I’m sorry a lot of you feel bad for Seamus. You don’t need to.
His Mom tells me that he loves his new pad and works out on the new wheel more than he ever could with the old one. He also got a mini-house (not pictured) that he loves crawling in and out of. He leaves the cage often to play with Mom’s kids. She even bought Hamsters for Dummies so she can provide all the TLC that every dwarf hamster deserves. Please believe me when I tell you that Seamus is a lucky little guy to be living with this family.
Also, for the record, I made fun of the Mom the entire time we shopped for a new cage. She knew this piece like this was coming.
OK, I’ll shut up now. Beamer, you were right.
November 28th, 2008 at 6:53 am
I think there are grounds for some legal action here..I can see a lawsuit in the works..and appearances for Seamus
on Letterman and Nancy Grace..a book..we could sell the movie rights..ask him if he needs an agent..:)
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November 28th, 2008 at 6:59 am
Maybe my funny bone is fractured but I actually laughed out loud. ‘Tis a hoot. Really!
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November 28th, 2008 at 7:06 am
It’s okay…I got the “humor” part. I know just what you mean about things only being funny in your head. I wrote a long blog post the other day about a ridiculous situation in my office (complete with diagram). I was just about to post it, when I realized that anyone who is not me was not going to find it even remotely funny. I guess that’s one of the drawbacks to having an odd sense of humor.
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November 28th, 2008 at 7:10 am
Seamus’ first home is an example of our nation’s consumerism, turning our wants into needs. Now let me get back to my laptop, my Keurig pumpkin spice coffee, and the Netflix movie on my HD TV!
November 28th, 2008 at 7:15 am
@Kathy - what do you mean - it was funny!
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November 28th, 2008 at 8:06 am
Well, I didn’t doubt, for one moment, that it was a humour post
Does that mean I am weird?
** Hmmm. I am looking and looking but I do not see a closet for Seamus to keep his hamster fashions in.** That made me fall off my seat laughing!
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November 28th, 2008 at 8:09 am
I’m confused now. Do we need to take a poll?
Funny OR Not Funny?
Better yet, can I just go back to bed and wake up when my Thanksgiving dinner calories have burned themselves off through the magic of sleeping and doing nothing?
Yeah, that’s my plan.
November 28th, 2008 at 8:30 am
Funny!
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November 28th, 2008 at 8:45 am
Not Funny !
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November 28th, 2008 at 8:46 am
I am trying not to fall off of my chair laughing! Yes, this recession is causing concessions - even for the Seamuses of the world.
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November 28th, 2008 at 9:00 am
at least it has SOME kinda color to it. I’m sure the parties with continue - it’s in the same neighborhood.
November 28th, 2008 at 9:01 am
Funny. That first home looked way too high-maintenance, even for a human to live in. I bet Seamus is much happier now that he has simplified his life. We should all take a lesson from Seamus’s mom. As long as we have clean water, fresh shavings, and plenty of pellets, we have nothing to complain about.
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November 28th, 2008 at 9:04 am
K.I.S.S.– All for it!
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November 28th, 2008 at 9:16 am
Hi Kathy, I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving. Kick your feet up and chill, lol! I am!
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November 28th, 2008 at 9:54 am
Kathy, I think it is funny. I like making fun of that Ty guy on the TV show. I realize it is for a good cause, but some of the stuff they do for those homes is far over the top. I mean come on, they put a bowling lane in one house, was that really a “NEED?”
So the Hamster had to downsize, Hey I understand. I know of a house near me that put a bathroom in for the express purpose to serve their DOG. (Wasn’t us!)
Good to see someone going the other way. Heck I have to patrol the yard for Dog Dirt detail daily, I understand having to clean the hamster cage.
So Kathy, any plans to downsize Stinky’s bathroom facility? LOL!
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November 28th, 2008 at 10:06 am
Definitely funny.
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November 28th, 2008 at 10:19 am
I would be quite angry if that awesome pad was pulled out from under my paws and that inferior living space replaced it.
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November 28th, 2008 at 11:04 am
You just tell Seamus that we should all be so lucky to have a house that someone else cleans for us.
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November 28th, 2008 at 11:10 am
I thought it was funny!
(However, my first thought after reading was “Hm, that’s the first hamster I know of that lived long enough to have two houses” so my sense of humor may be questionable…)
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November 28th, 2008 at 11:24 am
I thought it was funny. But apparently half of your readers have a warped sense of humor while the other half are morally indignant over the poor treatment of Seamus. Even if I had the first kick-ass house I would be too lazy to get off my hamster butt and take advantage; the wheel is more my speed.
November 28th, 2008 at 12:57 pm
Poor Seamus! I feel his pain. Even if I didn’t take advantage of everything that first had to offer, I just like the thought of having it there.
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November 28th, 2008 at 1:28 pm
Funny-ish, but sad too. Poor Seamus! That’s kind of like an eviction for something you didn’t do. He had such a good thing going and now it’s all gone. I feel sorry for him.
Kat
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November 28th, 2008 at 2:55 pm
How else *could* you pronounce Seamus? Sure and Begorrah!
November 28th, 2008 at 3:08 pm
When I was a young lad, I wanted a hamster. My dad said if I learned all about them he’d get me one. I read up on them and proudly told them that they are very neat and use all the corners of their cage. One corner for the bathroom, one corner for sleeping, one corner for playing and one for their food.
The prick got me a round cage.
Ha!
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November 28th, 2008 at 5:46 pm
My furkid’s name is Seamus too! Though he wouldn’t fit in either of those houses; he’s a good 18 pounds.
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November 28th, 2008 at 6:28 pm
Oh I know it’s meant to be funny and it is, but in reality the old cage is actually safer for him. It is harder to clean, but less drafty and less chances of him getting his head stuck between the bars (Kathy, I believe you can relate)! Vet notes here: http://www.ask-the-vet.com/hamster-cages.htm
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November 28th, 2008 at 8:17 pm
Hahaha…I can’t wait to tell my husband that his namesake is a hamster with a riches-to-rags cage story. You really can’t make this crap up.
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November 28th, 2008 at 11:01 pm
Sad for the hamster, but I should tell you it’s pronounced SEA-muss. I know because I read all 7 Harry Potters and that’s how I silently read the name to myself every time it showed up. You’re welcome.
November 28th, 2008 at 11:30 pm
That’s how I pronounce it too but whatever makes you happy I guess. Anyway, this post is definitely funny and I guess Seamus could locate his missing sock now.
November 29th, 2008 at 12:21 am
Now, if you could only do that with all of the big houses in America with underwater mortgages, your blog would really be changing the world.
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November 29th, 2008 at 12:55 am
This is an outrage! My budgies are on the phone to PETA as I type.
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November 29th, 2008 at 3:36 am
Oh Noooos! That is brutal. Now all he can do for fun is treadmill and stuff food in his cheek pouches. Hey, kinda sounds like me…well, the cheek stuffing part anyway.
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November 29th, 2008 at 8:15 am
oh no! poor seamus!!! that would be like me moving back into my old apartment. *shutter*
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November 29th, 2008 at 8:31 am
Seamus’s cage gets cleaned twice a week now since it’s so easy with the new cage, decreasing his risk of hamster illnesses. He loves his new wheel. The fancy one was too heavy for him to really get going because he is a dwarf hamster. Also, Seamus is 1/2 Irish on his mother’s side, not Scottish. Unfortunately, his father was a bit of a wastrel so Seamus’s paternal heritage is unknown. He is very proud of his Irish heritage. Seamus asked me to mention that he is very heartened that so many people were concerned about the welfare of a hamster. It is a refreshing change from those who call him a rat and he is grateful for your good wishes.
November 29th, 2008 at 9:59 am
What do Hamsters have for dinner on Thanksgiving? Are they carnivores?
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November 29th, 2008 at 10:39 am
Seamus’s Mom — Thanks for chiming in and letting us know all is well with Seamus in his new digs! I really did know he’d be happy no matter what his house looked like because he was adopted by a very loving family. Long live Seamus!
November 29th, 2008 at 11:12 am
OK, be careful with these wire cages. We just lost our pet in a tragic wire cage accident.
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November 29th, 2008 at 11:15 am
Seamus’s Mom: That is good to know ! Now, that Seamus is fameux, how about a blog eh ?
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November 29th, 2008 at 11:17 am
i feel for Seamus, but he can move on.
Seamus Mom: Why would you torture him with making his house teh same as the next Joe Smo hamster, so you could just clean it easier. Shame Shame
November 30th, 2008 at 7:33 am
is pretty, but very small, I can not imagine living there for some years …
November 30th, 2008 at 1:35 pm
Well, hard times USA means we all must scale down to some degree.
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November 30th, 2008 at 10:39 pm
Hamsters are smart…if his mommy showed him how to clean his room, I bet he would have helped clean it to get the cool house back.
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December 1st, 2008 at 12:47 am
Oh Kathy, I feel your pain.
I’m sitting here trying very hard to keep a straight face. Not that I am laughing at you, but with you. Being Sagittarius, I excel at opening my mouth and inserting my foot.
I am beginning to believe that Humor can be a double edged sword. I can give you a big (((((HUUGGG)))))).
Beamer
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December 2nd, 2008 at 6:29 pm
how funny…my son’s hamster, Squiggles, just got that exact super deluxe home makeover cage :0
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December 4th, 2008 at 12:04 am
Poor Seamus. The recession has hit his family hard.
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December 5th, 2008 at 10:32 am
Definitely was funny (I thought it was so funny, I forwarded it to my husband). I also like Gandalf & Grayson’s idea of hiring the rat (that is what I call our hamster) a maid. I wish my rat would get a maid to clean out his cage. Oh wait, I have cheap, 9 year old, slave labor.
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December 9th, 2008 at 11:17 am
Oh wow! I used to have the awesome little ‘mouse and moon’ radio behind Seamus’ original pad! That picture brought back so many memories…mind you I am only 24 and it’s only been a decade or so since I had the thing..but still. I loved it! Thanks for making my morning!
December 10th, 2008 at 12:59 pm
I say we start a petition to have her bring back Seamus’ old house!
December 10th, 2008 at 1:01 pm
On second thought, perhaps we should start a petition demanding that she move from her McMansion to a trailer and see how she likes it!
December 13th, 2008 at 7:12 pm
ooo, we like Hamsters, I hope the old home will return and your little guys will be happy again!
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