When Jeri died, I was so used to having a hamster around that I had to buy a successor, so I bought her on December 21^st 2000. In the picture above, she's got a "spiky" look going for her - this is because the daft thing managed to fall head-first into my cup of tea one day! After the initial "oh-my-God-what-should-I-do" I realised how funny it was....No long-term damage was done, and she soon cleaned herself up, but she took a while to dry off properly, hence the look :)

Sab was a very intelligent rodent. I used to let her run around on the floor of my bedroom, as she was very well behaved and never chewed any wires. She soon learned how to shimmy up behind the furniture, meaning that Willow would sometimes find a strange black-and-white thing sniffing around. That made her very happy of course....Another time, Sab managed to shimmy up behind the wardrobe and needed a little bit of help to get her down! Another thing that made me think Sab was very intelligent was how she seemed to tried to "speak" to me. My theory is that she had learned that humans communicate vocally, so used squeaks to get my attention. None of my other hamsters have ever done that.

Sadly, Sabrina became ill towards the end of her life. She was drinking and peeing a lot, so I think she may have been diabetic. She passed away on September 1^st 2002.

Sabrina's Pictures