Meet Waffles, the Hamster
By Kareng
@kareng (79342)
United States
August 31, 2025 2:18pm CST
Waffles is my granddaughter's hamster. He lives in his cage on a bedside table in her room.
Waffles has kept me from falling asleep some nights and has woken me up in the wee hours of the morning since I have been here. Hamsters are night owls and stay up all night foraging for food, playing or getting exercise if pets. Waffles loves playing and is moderately loud for such a little thing.
I am fixing to feed Waffles as soon as my grandson comes downstairs because I can't get the top off of his cage to feed him. It is one of those cages that the pieces lock into each other and this one is so tight, I can't budge it.
Have you had a hamster as a pet as a child or did your kids/grandkids?
Photo Credit: Pixabay, Public Domain
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@kareng (79342)
• United States
7h
@allknowing I was worried about him this morning. He did not play much last night!! I woke him from his sleep and that scared him. I was hoping he was alive!! Leaving the television on at night must have thrown him off!!
@allknowing (152725)
• India
19h
@kareng He looks majestic with his paws held like that
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@Shivram59 (45412)
• India
14h
No, I don't have any animal or bird as my pet. If I have one, it would be an injustice to them as I know I would not be able to look after them properly.
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@Shivram59 (45412)
• India
5h
@kareng My younger sister looks after the two stray cats, but I can't do it
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@LooeyVille (63)
• United States
10h
I either had a hamster or a gerbil for a very short time.
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@LooeyVille (63)
• United States
6h
@kareng It seems like it did. I vaguely remember I was about 12. I had a ball it ran in and a plastic habitrail or something it lived in with a wheel.
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@kareng (79342)
• United States
5h
@LooeyVille Those Habitrails are so cool now with so many tubes and tunnels! And expensive too!
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@luisadannointed (8530)
• Philippines
10h
Waffle is so cuteeee!!! A friend of mine has two hamsters but those hamsters are all gone now. They are so cute specially when they are playing.
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@RebeccasFarm (95813)
• Arvada, Colorado
31 Aug
Don't tell me has a Waffle House..chuckle.
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@kareng (79342)
• United States
6h
@JudyEv She roamed the whole house. We saw her once in the kitchen but she got away before we could catch her. It was a surprise seeing her run across the floor!! She may have survived on dog food or cat food. I am not sure what other pets we had at that time. But cats and dogs were fed in the kitchen.
@YuleimaVzla (1793)
• Maracaibo, Venezuela
17h
I asked my mom when I was barely a teenager that I wanted a pet hamster but my mom said that she was not going to spend money on a rat whatever it was for her it was rats even if it was Guinea pig[em]blink[/em
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@kareng (79342)
• United States
6h
The hamster was a compromise with me when I wanted a small pet. Gerbils were out of the question with my mom because they looked too much like a rat/mouse. Guinea pigs were too large and we settled on a hamster! My girls had several and enjoyed them very much.
@MarieCoyle (47868)
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22h
Waffles is so cute! My daughter had a Guinea pig for a few years, it was a fun pet.
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@MarieCoyle (47868)
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4h
@kareng
My youngest, who had the little creature, was (and still is!) a meticulously clean person and always kept up any pet messes. She said she wouldn’t have another one as they don’t live as long as a dog.
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@snowy22315 (195336)
• United States
31 Aug
OMI Gosh, Waffles is cute as a button. When my son was young we had a gerbil named Squeaky. Squeak for short. He was a lot of fun watching him run around his habitrails and in his plastic ball.
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@RasmaSandra (88536)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
31 Aug
Never had a hamster but I have heard that they are fun to have,
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@Traceyjayne (4779)
• United Kingdom
22h
I had several hamsters as a child. I think they were all called Tammy. No idea why !
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