Going for distance!

[Haruka]

We’ve had a pedometer on Chan’s wheel for a long time. His best night was 12295 revolutions, which calculates to 12.8 km. He’s older now, and doesn’t even get to 2000 revolutions anymore.

Now we have pedometers on the younger hamsters; Dust Bunny the Syrian and Peanut the Roborovski. Peanut never stops moving all night (Robos have a LOT of energy) but Bunny just sort of waddles around in no hurry, so we weren’t expecting much. Here are pics of last night’s results.

 

[Socks' Mum]

Peanut can do the London Marathon in a night quite casually. What amazing little animals hamsters are Even 8 km is quite a bit more than the average for a cat or dog. Lovely Chan, yes, they slow down quite a bit in old age but still enjoy a spin on their wheel

 

[Maz]

Wow - Peanut ran so much! That's robos for you It must be nice having pedometers for all of them. Do you think they ever race? I swear two of my hamsters were in competition