Hiiragi joins the family

This Christmas season my family welcomed a new addition to our pet family, Hiiragi the hamster. We already have four other hamsters: Yin, Zen, Yuki and Aiko given to us by our friend Nickie and her daughter Rachel. Over the holidays they offered to let us adopt Yuki and Aiko's sister. We named her Hiiragi, which is the Japanese word for holly. We had hoped that her sisters would remember her and let her join them in their cage, but unfortunately that was not the case, so now she has a nice two room home all her own. Of all our hamsters, she loves to burrow the most. Every day, she creates a huge nest to climb into and sleep, occasionally digging out to play or get a snack, much as I do with the blankets on the couch during football season. Welcome home, Hiiragi.