A New Friend

Lan and I picked up this little girl at Petsmart yesterday as a Valentine’s day treat. She is a Russian hamster, so we have fittingly named her Nastia, pronounced NAW-stia. The name Nastia translates as “ressurection”, which makes since, since Lan’s favorite hamster passed away last month from a cold, and Lan thinks of Nastia as a replacement that reminds him so much of our little Robodog1. I met a lot nice of people in Russia named Nastia, and the name has sort of grown on me.

Nastia is a lovely hamster. She is very clean and, surprisingly for her size, she is not a pig! I like that she is fat, and doesn’t run away or jump- which I am assuming will prevent a lot of brain damage that skittish hamsters probably suffer.