Hamster with nads of steel
Brave Hamster: I know your schnozzle is as big as my head, but I call the shots around here.
Puppeh: [Sniff]
That, my friends, is one brave ham.
Karen, Cocoa and Momo, I'm sure you have adventure stories to tell us about in the comments...
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that looks a little scary!
First the hamster that had a cat to ride around on, now a hamster with a dog-throne.
WHEN WILL IT END
[Nice try. - Ed.]
What we don't know is that he's probably just frozen in terror.
I had hamsters, and my dog used to get along fine with them. I also have a cat who gets along fine with the dog. And that same cat got along fine with the hamster, too. It is possible!
Pup and ham have matching pointy ears! :::squee:::
Wow, that ham's snuggled quite nicely in there. What kind of puppy is that? Kinda looks like mine... Keeshond/Sheltie
ROFL...that post title cracks me up. Its like Mr Hamster jackass.
Talk about putting on the dog.....:D!
Very Tom and Jerry, I can almost imagine a non plussed cat off to the side bewailing the hamdog relationship.
And I will call him George!!!!
Awwww!!!! Such a cute doggie!!!
Awww, so adorable! My pup, a JRT, never really bothered my hammy ... he does like to investigate my guinea pigs though!
Haha, my dog is terrified of my hamsters. The hamsters? Aren't worried in the least about the dog. It's very amusing to me.
That is a GORGEOUS dog! GOR-GEOUS!!!
That's so cute! Love the doggy and the brave russian dwarfhamster...
I am positive that my dog wouldn't know what to do with a hamster if she ever came into contact with one. She'd probably do what this dog here is doing, just sit down and look curiously at him!
But kudos to the ham--he's a daredevil!
oh my LORD, that is a-DOR-able!!!
We have a peacable kingdom in my house too - the kittehs get along with the piggehs - and while I had my foster bunbun, they all got along too.
Who, Michelle? The dog? LOL0L
Was I the only one to crack up over Meg's term nads of steel for a hammie??
Thank you for posting my thought out loud, Stormcat. Exactly what my tv-a-fied brain said after I read the picture rollover! So good to know (and a bit frightening too) that there are others "like me" out there!
I showed my hamster to my dog, and he just about ate him! That is one well behaved dog.
That doggie is so cute! What is the breed?
"TV-a-fied"? On behalf of English majors everywhere (nods to Garrison Keillor) I hereby connect Meg's rollover to John Steinbeck. Sigh. You young'uns.
"Say hello to my little friend!"
...says the *hamster*
No, the TV reference is good, too--from the Bugs Bunny cartoon "The Abominable Snow Rabbit"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Abominable_Snow_Rabbit. But that was obviously taken from Of Mice and Men.
Here endeth the edumacational part of the day.
StormCat and Trinky dink -- you are not alone!
I will also jump on the "gorgeous puppeh" bandwagon. Chow mix, perhaps?
Ah, thanks for the hamhance - that is some glorious BEF going on there!
aaah! don't call him "ham" in front of the dawg!!!!
lol. so cute.
@Stormcat & Trinky dink--
I *always* think that! But then I live with a George who is tremendously squishable and huggable and squeezable.
Love the hammie. I think teh doggeh is more scared than the hammie!
Hammie: "I laugh in the face of danger!"
Doggeh: "Smile when you say that!"
That's really one beautiful dog there,and you can see that he/she's just regarding hammie as a curiosity with no harm intended.
Oh, that puppeh is a dollface - he wouldn't hurt a fly! Or a ham. They're so sweet!
I agree about the pup - but look at that ham face! "I RULE."
Emma - pointy ears! Pointy ears! Maybe it's some kind of secret society! The Knights Templar of the Pointy Eared Masonic Lodge! Rule #1: Do not, I say do not, as in NOT to kronsche upon the pointy-eared brethren!
that dog is gorgeous!!!
my parents' corgi always reacted to my ratties with something between indifference and disgust. we would very carefully hold them up to her to let her take a sniff, and she would look away with a somewhat pained expression. i always theorized it was because they smelled so nice (srsly!), and dogs prefer things to be stinky. or maybe, like many people, she just had a thing about keeping "vermin" as pets.
OMG LOVE the confused puppeh attention ears! So cute and polite!
Mister Hammie Pants is pretty cute too.
I am in lerve with the dog. The fuzz, the paws, the sweetie-face!!
And the hamlette is rocking some serious BEF.
Hammie: now back off dawg, I don't want to have to hurt you.
And this totally reminded me of the dog at the barn where I used to keep my horse. He was a border collie and had been rescued from abuse, so he was sort of iffy about people touching him, and he tried to herd ANYTHING that moved, including barn cats and geese. But whenever one of the barn cats had kittens he would take breaks from his herding and just sit and stare at the kittens and wag his tail. It was so cute.
What a beautiful dog. He looks like he's protecting that ham. And such beautiful mittens on his hands. The dog has officially stolen the show.
Dogs have long been used to guard the 'family jewels'.
Hamhance! Hahahahahaha.
Tell me about the hammies again, George?
eeexxxxcellent.
Aww, puppy looks enamored with the cutie hamster. Athough the does seem to spacing out a little there.
I'm sort of in awe of that white, white muzzlepouf. I can't help but wonder who was there first. Was that beautiful pup hanging out when his pal on him like a heated waterbed? Or was the hammie there and the pup decided to cuddle and lick.
Hate to be a downer here, but that dog is displaying classic prey-response body posture (that ain't "curiousity"). :)
When a dog displays that kind of body language, you're running a risk. People often misunderstand it, as it looks cute. But a safe body posture is entirely different - a submissive posture with the head lowered levelly from arching the middle of the neck down, as well as laying the ears softly back.
The demonstrated body posture shows that the dog is struggling with its attack instinct so, if you ever see a dog in that position when facing your child or small pet, I wouldn't risk leaving them together! Too many people have made that mistake, thinking this posture looks friendly.
berthaslave, ahhhh haha HA! that's the way john malkovich said it to gary sinise, where "george" came out like "dorge." tell me about the hammies again, dorge? heh heh.
funny stuff.
Visiting CO (and reading Theo's pic comments) is hazardous to my laptop's health.
First it was juice all over my keyboard, now it's chocolate milk! Geez!
Brave Ham indeed. Bravo, sir!
I bet if that pup took one BIG deep breath thru his nose the hammie would stick to it like velcro?
Hammy say: "Oh my Grandma, what a big nose you have!"
Um can we get a confirmation that no hammies were harmed in the making of this photograph, nor afterward either?
That dog looks like a Keeshond. They're wonderfully kind dogs who are very peaceful. I've had three of them while growing up and we never had any problems with them attacking anyone or anything (besides the occasional shoe). In fact I had three hamsters at the time of our first Keeshond, Uff-Da, and Uff-Da would just sniff the little hams and ignore them. So while that may be the "classic prey-response body posture" the keeshond isn't going to do anything.