Meet Waffles, the Hamster
By Kareng
@kareng (79670)
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 (79670)
• United States
1 Sep
@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 (154201)
• India
1 Sep
@kareng He looks majestic with his paws held like that
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@kareng (79670)
• United States
1 Sep
@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.
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@LindaOHio (203792)
• United States
1 Sep
I never had a hamster. I had a rabbit.
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@MarieCoyle (49770)
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1 Sep
Waffles is so cute! My daughter had a Guinea pig for a few years, it was a fun pet.
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@kareng (79670)
• United States
1 Sep
@MarieCoyle That is true and hard for little ones to understand.
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@MarieCoyle (49770)
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1 Sep
@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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@luisadannointed (9456)
• Philippines
1 Sep
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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@xstitcher (36079)
• Petaluma, California
6 Sep
My brother and I both did. My brother's ran on it's wheel constantly (they both had those "Habitrail" kind of homes--the old ones that were all yellow and red colored), and mine would climb into the hole at the bottom of the wheel holder, out the hole at the top, and hang by it's little claws on the edge of the plastic cage and would chew on it (like you said, they're nocturnal, so of course it did this while I was trying to sleep). I loved my hamster, but that drove me nuts. 
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@RebeccasFarm (93679)
• Arvada, Colorado
31 Aug
Don't tell me has a Waffle House..chuckle.
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@Deepizzaguy (115246)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
1 Sep
I have never had a hamster as a pet before.
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@Shivram59 (45968)
• India
1 Sep
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 (45968)
• India
1 Sep
@kareng My younger sister looks after the two stray cats, but I can't do it
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@RasmaSandra (89982)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
31 Aug
Never had a hamster but I have heard that they are fun to have,
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@Traceyjayne (5900)
• United Kingdom
1 Sep
I had several hamsters as a child. I think they were all called Tammy. No idea why !
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@YuleimaVzla (1860)
• Maracaibo, Venezuela
1 Sep
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 (79670)
• United States
1 Sep
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.
