I have a new name!

Jason has given me the new name of....."Hamster whisperer" because I was able to bring Nibbles (Haley's hamster) back from certain death yesterday. I am still amazed at how everything worked out but somehow it did. I figured poor Nibbles was a goner but after the girls left for school I went in and picked her up and put a small droplet of Karo syrup on her mouth. Her little lips started to move and her tongue started licking...so I put on another drop. Amazingly that seemed to perk her up just a bit but she started shaking. I kept her in my hands and warmed her up. She didn't seem to have any balance and kept falling to her side. I gave her a cheerio and she ate it...slowly. I kept rubbing her to keep her warm and after a few more minutes she perked up a little bit more so I fed her another cheerio and a few seeds. She ate them as well. I kept it up for a while longer and when I could tell she was feeling better I put her in her cage to sleep some more. I called the vet to report her progress and after listening to me, the vet tech said "well I think your hamster is hypoglycemic." WHAT THE... I didn't even know an animal could be hypoglycemic. I already knew what that means because I am hypoglycemic and so is Kaycee. It basically means that if you go to long without food your blood sugar drops way to low and you shake, get disoriented and pass out. Yep sounds about like what Nibbles had experienced. I couldn't believe it...still cant. When Haley got home she was ecstatic to find Nibbles improved and when I told her what the problem is, Kaycee burst out laughing and said "Just like me!!" So now we have a hypoglycemic hamster. Who would have guess. LOL
On Monday evening for F.H.E. we went to a pet store in Orem to get Kaycee a new hamster but when she saw that the selection was pretty pitiful she decided instead to get...a rat. Jason was quite skeptical but I was all for it. My siblings wont be a bit surprised seeing as how I had rats when I was growing up. Kaycee's rat is an albino one and sooo cute. She named it Zoey and she has been playing with it non-stop. She still talks about Cheeto and misses her but I think Zoey will really help her get over it much quicker. So as of today we have a dog, a cat, 9 fish, an albino rat and...a hypoglycemic hamster. Quite the farm family hu?