1. Do not keep them in pairs. Hamsters are loners - keeping them together often results in stress, fighting, injuries and death. They are very happy alone.
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2. Minimum cage size
dwarf hamsters: 30 x 20 x 20 inches (80x50x50cm);
bigger hamsters: 40 x 20 x 20inches (100x50x50cm)!
NOT like this:
Living in cages like this for them is like a human living in an elevator - a lot too small and even dangerous!
For them it feels like this:
Behavior like this is a signal for stress because the cage is too small or that they need more bedding:
Better:
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3. Your hamster (always!) needs a hamster wheel - and it must be a lot bigger than you might think!
Hamster must be able to run with a completely straight back
on a closed surface
with a closed back wall!
NOT like this:
Results of those wheels are: spine problems, backache, stress, injuries!
Minimum wheel size for dwarf hamsters: 9-10 inches.
Minimum wheel size for bigger hamsters: 12 inches!
Better:
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4. Do not buy them plastic tubes (at all):
Those tubes are not suitable at all: Hamsters get stuck or suffocate in them easily.
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5. Your hamster needs enough bedding to dig and build tunnels.
NOT like this:
Better:
Your hamster will be extremely happy and dig around and build tunnels all day (night).
Plastic gets swallowed, splinters, can injure or even kill your hamster.
Better:
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7. Hamsters ALWAYS need a sand bath.
Hamsters love rolling around in the sand, for them it’s like showering. How would you feel without a shower?
You can use those little baths as toilets, but you still need a bigger sand bath!
Better:
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8. Hamsters need a house with at least 2 or more chambers to store food, sleep etc. Also make sure that your hamster does have enough hiding places like coconuts, small houses, toilet rolls!
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9. Do use unperfumed toilet paper for nesting material, don’t use “hamster wool” -> it can tangle around a limb and seriously hurt and even kill your hamster!
NOT like this:
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10. Never ever ever put your hamster or any animal in a hamster ball.
They can’t get out, might suffocate or panic, might run against furniture and seriously injure themselves. The ventilation is terrible, your hamster can’t see/smell/hear enough or use any of their senses properly.
In some countries they even discuss about banning those by law!
Even if you think that “your hamster has fun in it” - please don’t use them!
Pet stores often are very misinformed and sell terrible cages and have little to no idea how to keep a happy hamster - please be careful when trusting them. In the end they often just want to make money - and the hamsters suffer.
Please adopt, not buy hamsters - there are too many hamsters in this world that we need any more breeding.
(Sorry for the spelling errors - I made this post in a rush.)
i literally had no idea, so i feel like this really needs to be stressed
Much like with bettas, there’s a lot of companies out there making a huge profit on habitats that are completely unsuitable for your pets, and counting on consumer ignorance.
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I don’t have a hamster but I feel it’s really important if my future gf/husband would like to buy one fluffyball
D&D players will always come up with the most bizarre, workable solutions to problems when you least expect it.
In one game I ran, the party needed to find a magical artifact and didn’t have any idea where it was at all. So they decided to use Commune to figure it out - but Commune as a spell only lets you ask yes or no questions, and get an answer out of it. So they took a map of the continent, drew a line down half of it, and asked “Is the artifact on this half of the map?”. They then continued, narrowing the artifact’s location down further and further, until they were able to pinpoint the exact building in question.
This reminds me of the last campaign I was in, when my husband played a Telepathic Psion. When we were coming up with our inventories at the beginning of the game, everyone else is putting down normal shit like horses, packs, travel provisions, money.
My husband asked for a bear trap.
The DM (who happened to be coolkidmitch) asked him what the hell he could possibly need a bear trap for, to which my husband only said, “You’ll see.” After about twenty minutes of figuring out what this bear trap would weigh, the skill my husband would have to roll in order to use it, and a bunch of other minutiae, my husband had a bear trap in his inventory.
Now, all of us kind of forgot about the bear trap while we were adventuring along on our escort quest (during which my husband’s Psion regularly tried to convince one of our employers that there was a golden acorn/tree of life/fountain of youth/whatever the fuck in the forest so she would wander off and get herself eaten by bears - she was really rude) until we run into a situation where we’ve been surprised by the locals and nobody can draw a weapon without causing a real problem.
My husband pulls the bear trap out of his saddlebag, holds it out to the nearest goon, and says the goon needs to roll a will check. When asked why the goon needs to roll a will check, my husband calmly replies, “He’s being offered the fanciest hat he’s ever seen in his life, and he really wants to put it on.”
Moment of silence around the gaming table as all of us realize that my husband is trying to end the encounter by convincing a goon to put a bear trap on his head like a hat.
The goon failed the will check.
I gotta share The Grand Show story now.
So my D&D campaign is comprised of four newbies, one guy with a lot of tabletop experience, and me, the newbie DM. The crew is trying to break into a walled manor, in part to find out if the Lord inside had anything to do with some culty plot shenanigans (P.S: he was dead the whole time, so no one would have detected them from inside the wall regardless).
I am very explicit to them about the fact that they are trying to break into the Lord’s manor, in the middle of the day, across from the main thoroughfare of the town, with no cover or disguise of any kind, and they are all level 2 - so no teleportation, invisibility, illusions - nothing. They do not heed my warnings, and our gnome paladin and halfling rogue toss a grappling hook over the wall and start to climb it. Meanwhile the other three in the party - a totally inconspicuous group consisting of a dragonborn with a cat, a tiefling in a chainmail bikini, a half-vampire warlock with a mask and a swordcane, and an NPC satyr who was along for the ride - are just hanging out below the wall watching.
After a minute I say, “behind you, you notice that a crowd of about ten or twelve peasants have gathered and are whispering in worried voices. You notice two guards approaching from down the road.”
Halfling rogue - one of the more-or-less newbies of the crew - whips around and immediately shouts “WELCOME TO THE GRAND SHOW!”, and scores an excellent deception roll. Dragonborn starts making his cat do tricks and rolls a sick animal handling check. Tiefling cleric begins pole-dancing on her spear and also rolls high. The warlock starts doing special effects with Minor Illusion and rolls ok. They nudge the satyr into playing music for them, who crits his performance check and charms half the audience as a result. The paladin, from the top of the wall, starts juggling his hammers and midway through throws one at the window of the Lord’s manor, breaking it so they can get in.
I was already going to give them that, and then nearly every last fucking NPC rolled an insight check of less than 10. So the group also made 10 gold for their “busking” and got into the manor completely unhindered. \o/ goddamnit.
Roleplaying in general = epic
@listener-blue all i can think of is the damn squid babies
Running a campaign making use of the Sandstorm book for 3.5. Which is a desert environment and monster supplement book. So, the campaign is going well for an evil game. All the players are doing their shenanigans.
Most of them are following the plot but a player who regretted their CE character was given an option to reroll a new one as a cleric of storms. I figure I’ll give him a leg up and allow it. This is how the story of “Money Rain” Began.
So, rolling random treasure as they’re all level 8 or so. You can get some really silly ass results on the random treasure table. One of the enemies they killed happened to have a collection of 100,000 gold… In copper coins. All of it in copper coins. 10 million fucking pennies. So, the players, utilizing several extradimensional storage spaces have this ocean of pennies on hand to try and later convert it into a sensible currency like adamantine ingots or something.
One of the things they’ve been doing is cooperating with this cult, not so much as members but as “consultants.” Well, they were asked to help pacify this town and make it ready for the cult… Problem is they’re a group of 6 ne’er do wells versus a town of 3,500 people… That’s when the storm cleric goes, “well, I can make and generate a hurricane.” And that’s when the psion of the asks, “Can that include tornados and high speed winds?” I made the mistake of saying, “Yes.”
They then go on a twenty minute explanation and spend most of that doing various physics calculations. What is their grand plan for utilizing a force 3 hurricane in the desert? MONEY. FUCKING. RAIN. They decide to dump all 10 million copper into a pile and have tornadoes suck it up. After some quick math on the square and cubic footage of the town… They can get something like 9 coins per cubic foot of space for something like 10 rounds. And so it hailed pennies. More, and more and more. People immediately sought shelter because these things were doing almost 1 lethal point of damage from flying around at above terminal velocity. Then the weight on houses started collapsing roofs…
All told they ended up killing around 25% of the city, critical injuring another 30%, and left every single family with at least one casualty.
god damn money rain.
This post gets better everytime it crosses my dash
Okay, way back in the days of AD&D, I was a Magic-User in a rather large party known as “The Heroes of Vindale.” Our Thief, Narn, came across a wand that had this inscribed:
Wand of wonder,
Wand of might,
Smite my enemies
Within my sight!
Not wanting me to go through the intestinal rigarmarole required for casting the Identify spell (grind up one pearl, mix with wine, drink, ew!), Narn points it a tree and squees with delight as it get blasted by a Lightning Bolt*!
Our adventures include rescuing a large number of people enslaved by Orcs and being made to work an iron mide set into in a hillside. We approach the camp from atop the hill to reconnoiter, and soon had our plan: Narn would use his wand and I my staff to toss some kaboom into the enemy, while Joyous Sol will in true Charisma 17 Paladin fashion lead the charge from the flank.
Narn and I get into position at the edge of a cliff and await the signal. Narn says the magic words and…
… his view is blocked by a very large, grey elephant but that the wand had summoned right before his very eyes. The poor thing trumpets in confusion as it plummets down the 40 foot cliff. It survives but suffers enough injuries to drive it into a pain-fueled rage. So now this pained pachyderm is on a rampage, going through buildings and tents alike, and forcing the Orcs in the towers to point their ballistae away from the charging Paladin.
In the end, it was the best surprise attack we never planned…
(*Now as players we know this is a Wand of Wonder, and that the effects are random, but we played along to our character’s ignorance, thus…)
This post keeps getting better
in our campaign there was a kobald in the tavern yelling at the barkeep because he was too young to order ale and our party just woke up so i casted sleep on the kobald and ordered breakfast. when he woke up he started yelling again until the barkeep gave him a huge tankered of water that was bigger than him. the other spellcaster casted chill touch on the tankered to freeze it while i casted prestidigitation to make it taste like straight up vodka. he ended up drinking what he thought was a vodka slushie
one of these is prospitcest. its unclear which because its unknown which ones were the original clones and which ones were the genetic combinations but heres some prospitcest for you
could you like.. not be weird by defining vrisrezi as incest lmao
nope because i did this specifically to point out the hypocrisy of people who harass people who draw something cute involving jade and john but have no problem shipping trolls who are genetically related. either have the whole cake or have none of it.
terezi and vriska arent related idiot
if they are not then mitula would be. one of these ships would be considered incest.
that doesnt make any sense!!! on what basis are they related???
There are eight banks of Ectoslime tubes for the trolls containing three tubes each, while the humans only have two sets with two tubes each. This means only three alpha trolls are related to three beta trolls at max. Whatever moon they’re on doesn’t matter, unlike the humans.
Even if it was based upon moon, Mituna and Sollux are on both moons, making any generalization about them invalid.
We don’t know which trolls are genetically related to each other in each set, so you can’t claim that any particular trolls are related to each other, except dancestors.
The only familial relationship trolls have that is anywhere close to what the humans are presented with is the Ancestor/Dancestor one.
The comic puts zero investment in presenting any familial kinship between any of the trolls, unlike how John and Jade or Rose and Dave are treated.
It’s blatantly untrue to even consider putting Mitula as being on the same level as JohnJade, both in-context and out-of-context.
if you look closely though, its six tubes connected. one to hold each of the ancestors slime imprint to create the ancestors before making an incestious slurry to create the trolls. based on johns ectobiology its entirely possible that it divides who gets to be a combination of who based on whether or not theyre prospit or derse. since the scourge sisters are both prospit it means theres a 50% chance they are related depending on whether or not they came first. and other ships like kargam, fefidan and araquius would follow in suit. if they were the ancestors and the dancestors came second then ships like porkri and meenus and porranea would be incestuous. either way, troll relationships are likely incest. and if sollux WAS derse instead of prospit that would mean ships like erisol would be incest. Either way, in a story where everyone is related, incest ships are like not something to be concerned about and you shouldnt harass people because of it.
one of these is prospitcest. its unclear which because its unknown which ones were the original clones and which ones were the genetic combinations but heres some prospitcest for you
could you like.. not be weird by defining vrisrezi as incest lmao
nope because i did this specifically to point out the hypocrisy of people who harass people who draw something cute involving jade and john but have no problem shipping trolls who are genetically related. either have the whole cake or have none of it.
except the world isn’t fucking black and white, especially in fiction when it’s written by a human being and dealing with made up shit
the humans had much more of a focus on the familial bonds they were revealed to have because our culture and biology results in things like parents, siblings, etcetera. two people have a child and have a kid and the way genetics work, that kid having kids with their parents or siblings would be terrible for the resulting child! it’s also just fucking gross
the trolls don’t have parents or really any known family in the way their society works, other than their lusus. their dna is taken by the robots to the mother grub and put into an “incestuous slurry” which results in a bunch of kids. there’s no real explanation to HOW this works biologically because maybe like four or five trolls contributed in the dna of a kid. maybe only two. that’s never explained. plus the ectobiology could have been weird and different too so just.. fuck. besides, the offspring of that batch of troll kids getting together really doesn’t mean anything for their society, so it doesn’t matter.
REGARDLESS this is all made up shit by hussie so we don’t have to take the word of god to rigidly define things. we, as human beings, kinda just view each each dancestor as the actual ancestor of the kids. karkat to kankri. kanaya to porrim. etc
nepeta and feferi? sollux and aradia? eridan and feferi? there’s no fucking details of the beta trolls that would imply they’re related. no “we’re brother and sister!” spotlights in the story. the biology of the trolls is weird and kind of incestuous but nothing in the actual dialogue or relations shows the betas being related. the ONLY characters that do have some familial terms used for one another is vriska and terezi, being called scourge sisters, but that’s never meant literally and can easily be more as a term of endearment, like a man calling his friend a bro.
john and jade are humans and pretty fucking clearly brother and sister. dave and rose too. you can see the resemblance between the strilondes and th.. the.. harl..egb.. john/jade/jane/jake. their guardians were their actual family members for god’s sake. they look, act, are explained, and are framed as brother and sister. vrisrezi isn’t.
don’t let some minor, ambiguous fucking technicality excuse LITERAL incest art by saying vrisrezi is the same as johnjade. fuck you
funny how you’re trying to justify incest.
terezi and vriska were literally called the scourge sisters.
a. i explained why that doesn’t have to fucking mean familial relations. it can be used endearingly. please read
b. i guess karkat and dave are incestuous because dave calls karkat bro
c. fuck you
d. why was vriska and terezi the only two who were referred to as siblings? if we are to see the rest as siblings somehow, please show me the other familial terms used to relate the other non-dancestors. also fuck you
you are trying so hard to defend scourgecest
don’t use shaky, debatable facts if your best defense against an actual argument against it is “look at this tryhard lol” bye
just means they don’t have an argument, know it, and are taking the coward’s way out
Nah, taking the cowards way out is blocking after reblogging in a way that ellicits a response, making it seem as the other person gave up, though it doesnt work when its not the post of the blockers. I did give my reasoning why i claim that vrisrezi or latula is likely incestuous. and the gist of it being “almost everyone is related in some way so stop harassing people for a fucking ship” because some people have been harassing one of my friends for some cute art and you all have proven my point exactly. now if you dont mind,im gonna keep drawing scourgecest.
I am Silver Tongue, I am an artist. I have many characters and you can check out my art in the art tag. I occasionally practice witchcraft though I don't do anything too complicated. I am girl 2 and don't know what else to put here.
