Pet Adventures

Hubby and Big Bee came back on Saturday afternoon with an exotic pet, much to my chagrin - a baby octopus! According to Hubby, it is a 2-month-old female octopus. Big Bee was immensely delighted, and always kept an eye out for it. Little Bee insisted that we name this octopus Angie, so there we are - a pet Angie in the corner of our dining room, complete with wriggly tentacles! 

4 facts about octopuses (according to Hubby!):

1) Octopuses are highly intelligent creatures

2) They are mild predators that are very territorial, so they are better off living alone

3) Recommended diet is live, fresh shrimps (yikes!), and they love to put up a good chase for their food. So the Bees were witnesses to some rather exciting battles between Angie the octopus and a few active shrimps a la National Geographic. 

4) Octopuses love to play, so Hubby bought a dozen tiny balls for Angie to juggle around with!

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On the hamster front, Hubby found Furball, our white hamster, peering at him right outside our bedroom late on Friday night! According to Hubby, when he ambled to the kitchen to take a plastic box to scoop up Furball, it scurried right after him, following him into the kitchen! As Hubby reached the kitchen, Furball looked at him expectantly, as if asking Hubby to bring him home! And true enough, when Hubby held out his hand, Furball scampered right onto his palm obediently before Hubby brought it up into its cage! How cute!

We suspected that Furball could unscrew a security cap on its cage, and true enough, 2 mornings later, as Big Bee strode sleepily to the bathroom, we heard her exclaimed excitedly, "The hamster is here!" Once again, Furball veered towards Hubby, and calmly let Hubby carry it to its cage, which is on a high ledge. We decided to switch it to another cage to prevent it from constantly falling off from high grounds. What a smart hamster! It knows how to unscrew caps from within its cage!