Chandler James' POV

(written in Winter of 1997-98)

Find Out All the Juicy Personal Stuff About Me!


cute hammy Hi! My name is Chandler James Thompson. I am a teddy-bear hamster with very long, apricot-colored hair. I live with my three humans (Dad, Mom, my personal human, and the little sister). Molly, my stepsister, a 6 year old Cocker Spaniel, and William, my stepbrother, also live with me. I will be one year old on March 13. Well, now that you know the boring facts, I'll get to the good stuff.

I love my house! It's three stories high, and I have everything I need. My house is in my personal human's bedroom. I am a vegetarian, and I make sure that my human buys me vegetarian food. She says that it's hard to find, but she really cares about my diet, so she goes to tons of stores to find it for me. The kind she found is so nutritious and yummy! My other favorite foods are sunflower seeds (of course!) and apples.

On a normal day, I wake up when my personal human does (around 6:00) and go downstairs to relieve myself. My personal human gives me more food and cleans out my bathroom first, though. A lot of people are amazed that I'm potty-trained. Personally, I don't see what's so amazing about it. If humans can be potty-trained, then why can't hamsters? Anyway, I stuff some food in my cheeks, and maybe some wood shavings. Stuffing wood shavings in my cheeks may seem strange, but I have a good reason: because my hair is so long, the shavings from my bedroom (little plastic house) get stuck on my hair. So, each time I leave my bedroom, I have less shavings in my house for my nest. I love having a lot of bedding, so I just "restock" when necessary. Sometimes my hair gets so matted that my personal human has to brush it with my hairbrush (a toothbrush). I don't really mind being brushed, because it is sort of like a massage.

      
Anyway, after my cheeks are full, I go back up to my bedroom and sleep and eat. I sleep during most of the day, but around 3:00 in the afternoon, my personal human gives me a treat (a yogurt drop, nuts) delivered right to my bedroom! After I eat my treat, I fall asleep again. Around 7:30, I wake up and start having fun! I have a wheel in my cage, but I don't see much use for it. I get nowhere, and it seems so childish. Instead, I climb on top of it and chew on the walls of my house (filing my teeth). The Mom human thinks that I'm "retarded" because I don't use my wheel. But my personal human sticks up for me every time. I also have a plastic ball that is not in my cage. I like this toy, because I can actually go places. Sometimes I go outside on the grass, which is really fun! Or else I just wander around my personal human's room while she's cleaning my cage. It's great exercise, and I advise all the hamsters out there to get one! I usually stay up all night climbing all over my house and chewing on things. I don't drink much water, though. That's about all that happens each day.

You're probably thinking that I have a rather peculiar name. If you read the home page, then you know that I was named after Kyle Chandler from Early Edition. I was curious about what Kyle looked like, so I watched the show one night with my personal human. I liked what I saw immediately. I am certainly not ashamed of being named after this "manly man" (as my personal human calls him). William, my stepbrother, was also named after a "manly man"-Billy Zane. Not too many people know who he is, though. My personal owner always complains about how people seem to favor Leonardo DiCaprio over him (especially in Titanic-hey, Zane was just ACTING). My personal owner showed me a picture of this so-called "hunk" Leo. I was surprised that people think he's so great. He looks as if he hasn't reached puberty yet, although he's in his twenties. According to my personal human, Leo is the complete opposite of Billy Zane. Billy is manly, muscular, mature, and masculine (the 4 M's, as my personal human says), and Leo is none of these. Well, I'm just glad that I wasn't named after this Leo person. I guess I would be embarassed, but I can't really say. Okay, I know a lot of people disagree with me, but hey, everyone is entitled to his or her opinion.

I happen to really like this song that is playing. Whenever I hear this song, I wake up. Sometimes I come out of my bedroom, but not too often. I simply like to lay in bed and listen with my eyes closed.

Well, that's about all I have to say. My personal owner promised me that she would make a webpage about me and Will. Molly didn't mind, though. She doesn't like a lot of publicity. I wanted to make this little POV page because I don't really have anything else important to do. My personal human told Will he could do one too, but Will refused. Will is very timid, you see. He's always hiding in his box. If you go into his room, and he's eating or something, he runs back to his box and starts squeaking like a lunatic or something. He gets scared over the littlest things. If Molly even goes into his room, he gets totally freaked out. She doesn't intend to scare him, of course, but he's a very nervous guy. One time, the Dad human's pager went off and started vibrating on the desk near Will's cage. Will went mad, of course. I try not to tease him about it, because he's very sensitive.

Sorry to be rambling on, but like I said before, I have nothing else to do. I'll probably add to this page if something really exciting happens, like if I get a girlfriend. Well, sign the guestbook to leave me a message, if you want. I'll try to get back to you, if I have time. I probably will have time, though, so don't worry. Bye everyone. Oh yeah, consider becoming a vegetarian. I mean, do you really want to eat a corpse that was once alive? Bye now. I really mean it.

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