UPDATE: REGRETSY URGENT ACTION BULLETIN
- Submitted by Robin
I don’t know about you, but this makes me sick.
If you’re as fed up as I am with casual hamster sizeism, please sign my petition:
STOP DISCRIMINATING AGAINST DWARF HAMSTERS
GET THE WORD OUT
Bookmark this page to watch our signatures grow. Si se puede!
UPDATE: Well, your impassioned, tireless activism (clicking on something) has paid off! A Rose Creates, the Etsy seller behind the hamster costume controversy, has seen the light, and has issued this formal apology to all Dwarf hamsters and their admirers:
“I would like to take this opportunity to apologize for my blatant disregard of non-Syrian hamsters. It was not my intention to offend or disparage these hamsters in any way, and I would like to state for the record that whether your hamster is dwarf or Syrian; Chinese Striped or Angora, I am willing to fill your costume needs.
And, in an effort to improve self esteem and empower hamsters of all kinds, I have today created my own organization: Body Image for Totally Cute Hamsters of Every Size (B.I.T.C.H.E.S.).
B.I.T.C.H.E.S. AND H.O.E.S. UNITE!”
September 15, 2011 at 2:11 pm
Haha. You so crazy.
September 15, 2011 at 4:31 pm
Nah, she ain’t crazy…she’s just “jeer”ing. And I mean this in a good way.
September 15, 2011 at 4:36 pm
Oh wait…I meant to say…she’s just switching “gears” …funny how things sound so brilliant until you explain them to someone else. Whoops. Yes..I should have saved this for the Gerbil petition…
September 16, 2011 at 12:17 am
I’m sure you must’ve meant “Gere”ing. Oh wait, was that just an urban legend?
September 16, 2011 at 12:22 am
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September 15, 2011 at 11:45 pm
She really gets us…!! btw what are you wearing!!
September 15, 2011 at 2:13 pm
Such blatant racism! For shame. For. Shame.
September 15, 2011 at 2:46 pm
Yes, what the hell is wrong with the Canadian hamster? Sure our hamsters are a little chubbier than most (due to the harsh winters of course) but there’s no darned plus sizes either!
September 15, 2011 at 2:57 pm
It’s the ridiculous Syrian Hamster standard of beauty. It’s not natural! They’re all photoshopped, people!
Sorry to get so upset. Nothing’s been the same since Lil Miss Fluffington died of hamsterexia.
September 16, 2011 at 5:04 am
They’re all trying to be guinea pigs, anyway!
September 16, 2011 at 6:06 pm
Sizeist bastards.
September 15, 2011 at 8:27 pm
Hey, this is standard in the Etsy animal-art world! My boyfriend doesn’t paint dwarf hamsters any more than he does midget cats or vertically-challenged canines!
September 16, 2011 at 12:24 am
Just because everyone else is doing it doesn’t make it morally acceptable.
September 15, 2011 at 2:13 pm
Dwarf hamsters don’t have feelings like Syrian hamsters do. They’re like husks, devoid of emotion, intellect, or empathy. Fuck dwarf hamsters.
September 15, 2011 at 2:19 pm
DWARF HAMSTER TOSS!
September 15, 2011 at 2:22 pm
OMG SPECIESISM
September 15, 2011 at 2:24 pm
They have weird fingers and their butts are high.
September 15, 2011 at 2:40 pm
That reminds me, Rev. BIOU13, I saw a dwarf at Storybook Gardens a few weeks ago and tried to get a picture for you but he was too slick for me.
September 15, 2011 at 2:44 pm
Slipped away on ya, huh? Typical.
September 15, 2011 at 5:49 pm
Now I MUST try to use speciesism in casual conversation. Thanks Happy Penguins!
September 16, 2011 at 12:45 pm
I use it quite often. Usually referring to how I am prejudiced against humans vs other species. Other species are so awesome.
September 15, 2011 at 2:55 pm
Are they any good deep-fried?
September 15, 2011 at 3:33 pm
No, but they’re the right size to fit two on a hot dog bun!
September 15, 2011 at 6:16 pm
Taste like chicken.
September 15, 2011 at 3:05 pm
You make them sound like the gingers of the hamsterverse.
September 15, 2011 at 4:08 pm
I have a little crush on you right now.
September 15, 2011 at 5:21 pm
Agreed. We had loads of hamsters when I was growing up – the Syrian ones were really nice but the dwarf ones were evil little fucks. We didn’t get any more after one ate its cage-mate’s head….
September 15, 2011 at 9:16 pm
You’re supposed to only have one per cage because they are so evil. They bite for no reason too.
September 16, 2011 at 4:14 am
oh they have their reasons, trust me.
September 16, 2011 at 8:46 am
Never realized this, but now it makes total sense! I always had Syrian hamsters growing up, which were sweet + very easy to handle. (I even trained one to do tricks!) Tried playing with my cousin’s Dwarf Hamster once, and the little bugger damn near took my finger off. All these years I took it personally + thought that hamster just hated me … now I know that Dwarf hamsters are simply more prone to violent outbursts and lack proper impulse control!
September 16, 2011 at 6:22 pm
That might explain a lot. We always had them in pairs because the people at the pet shop told us they should be in pairs…
One cage clearly cannot contain the evil.
September 15, 2011 at 6:09 pm
Dwarf hamsters are assholes. Mean little fucks.
September 15, 2011 at 9:03 pm
I was inclined to believe the warning was a matter of safety, because there’s pretty much no way you could get one of those pricks into a costume with all of your fingers intact. Unless it’s been deep fried first.
September 15, 2011 at 2:14 pm
I dunno. Have you ever seen the funny way Dwarf Hamsters eat? And their SO LAZY!
September 15, 2011 at 2:16 pm
They always leave crap out all over their lawns.
September 15, 2011 at 2:21 pm
It’s not that I hate Dwarf Hamsters…I mean, some of my best friends are Dwarf Hamsters.
It’s just that they insist upon sticking to their foul, messy eating, crappy lawn, lazy ass dwarf hamster ways! That really bothers me.
Plus, they talk funny.
September 15, 2011 at 2:23 pm
It is said that they are incapable of learning mathematics, and disregard lines even when they can clearly see Syrian hamsters patiently waiting their turns.
September 15, 2011 at 3:33 pm
First they came for the dwarf hamsters,
and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a dwarf hamster.
Then they came for the gerbils,
and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a gerbil.
Then they came for the naked mole rats,
and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a naked mole rat.
Then they came for me
and there was no one left to speak out for me.
September 15, 2011 at 4:09 pm
They also congregate in their “own communities” and claim their own culture, and they don’t speak English. I mean, I like Dwarf Hamsters as much as the next guy but assimilate if you want to be treated like every other hamster.
September 15, 2011 at 5:40 pm
That explains everything! Our neighbors are obviously Dwarf Hamsters.
September 16, 2011 at 4:18 am
they wouldn’t offend me if they just kept to themselves as god intended, but they try to integrate with other hamsters. It is truly an abomination in the eyes of the lord!
September 16, 2011 at 5:10 am
Exactly. It’s not dwarf hampsters themselves I hate, it’s everything they do, say, and stand for. I’m not a bigot. I just want them to be exactly like me.
September 15, 2011 at 2:37 pm
I realize I am being a grammar nazi bitch, but this is one of thosse their/they’re/there mistakes that makes my head spin.
September 15, 2011 at 2:49 pm
A fine example of Hartman’s Law of Prescriptivist Retaliation in action.
September 15, 2011 at 2:52 pm
I always look forward to thosse.
September 15, 2011 at 4:42 pm
Regretsy is like Argentina for grammar nazis.
September 15, 2011 at 8:42 pm
Ach, I am choosing the superior country of Brazil for my gemutlische “home deported from heim”. Nicht nur larger, sondern auch schoener. Auch im Rio de Janero, the lovely peoples celebrate Karnival in ein ganz anders weg. So colorful und shall I say “Sexy”!
Sing mal mit me:
Ein Prozit, ein Prozit, zum gemuetlichkeit!
Bitte forgive me any grammar die sind NICHT KORREKT, weil ich have ein bisschen zu viele Masse Hefeweisen schon getrunken!
Ich liebe euch alles: faul, gross, und dumm. Wir sind Familie!
September 16, 2011 at 5:08 am
I’m not even going to try to figure out what the hell elsbeth is trying to say, because…well…I’m half Dwarf Hamster, OKAAAY????
September 15, 2011 at 2:14 pm
I’m against hamster exploitation in all it’s ugly forms.
September 15, 2011 at 2:55 pm
(It’s a damn cute costume though, right?)
September 15, 2011 at 3:16 pm
Heck yeah, it is! My sister made one very similar for my niece back when the little girlie was 11 months. She won the Halloween costume contest that year. So darn cute!
September 15, 2011 at 4:49 pm
By “niece” you mean the Syrian hamster your sister owns, right? Because if not, I suggest you destroy all the adorable pictures and related evidence.
September 15, 2011 at 5:02 pm
How dare your sister make a costume for her human baby and no costume for her hamster? She probably said she “didn’t have time”, but really, she’s just too lazy. She doesn’t deserve to have a hamster. Or a baby. Or Halloween.
September 15, 2011 at 2:14 pm
Man, I’m really getting tired of how PC regretsy has become. Dwarf hamsters have been given preferential treatment for too long. Some of us want to market JUST to the Syrian hamster market. That doesn’t make us racists!
September 15, 2011 at 2:20 pm
HEY! That’s “growth challenged” to you – Dwarf went out with the slaves!!!
September 15, 2011 at 3:41 pm
Don’t EVEN get me started on the horrors of the Hamster Slave Trade! Poor little beasties help captive in the slave ships, stacked inhumanely in their acrylic balls, one on top the other, like a pitiful version of toddler-pee filled ball pits at Chuck E Cheese’s.
Oh Chuck! how could you mock your rodent brethren so openly??
*sob*
September 16, 2011 at 5:10 am
I’ve heard rumors that Kia still uses Dwarf Hamsters in its engines. Does PITA know??
September 15, 2011 at 2:14 pm
Can you adjust the size of the size?
Wait, that didn’t work as well as I thought it would…
September 15, 2011 at 3:02 pm
Are you referring to adjusting the size of the smell? Are you saying dwarf hamsters stink? Hamsterist.
September 15, 2011 at 5:16 pm
I’d like to adjust the smell of the size.
September 15, 2011 at 6:45 pm
Maybe you can do it in your artistic ability.
September 15, 2011 at 2:15 pm
My regulation sized teddy bear hamster is upset that these aren’t made in his size. He JUST WANTS TO BE LIKE THE OTHER HAMSTERS OKAY GAWD.
September 15, 2011 at 2:22 pm
Send him to American Apparel. I heard they like XL models there — http://jezebel.com/5840312/american-apparel-refuses-to-recognize-rightful-plus+size-contest-winner
September 15, 2011 at 4:35 pm
The next BIG thing? For real? What self-respecting plus size lady would want to buy their overpriced 80′s hausfrau costumes in the first place?
September 16, 2011 at 5:16 am
I refuse to do business with any company that considers a size 12 “plus size.”
The average American woman wears a size 14.
September 15, 2011 at 2:36 pm
My black bear hamster is nearly the size of a small guinea pig and will never fit these costumes. Sure he sits on his oversized nutsack all day and uses it as a table when he eats but it’s still discrimination!
September 15, 2011 at 4:25 pm
Wow, that’s kind of disturbing. I think I want one of these creatures.
September 15, 2011 at 8:24 pm
They are the nicest hamsters and the only hamsters I will willingly pick up. In all my years (20+) working in pet stores, I have never been bitten by a black bear. They also get pretty big compared to your typical syberian/teddy bear. Mine didn’t fit into the standard hamster wheel.
September 15, 2011 at 8:35 pm
Awesomely enough, I’ve never been bitten by a black bear, either. Nor a Grizzly, nor Polar, nor Brown.
September 15, 2011 at 9:16 pm
ever catch the hamsters masturbating? that’s disturbing!
September 15, 2011 at 2:15 pm
Ah Regretsy. Just when I’m having a bad day, you dig up something like this.
Thank you for showing me there’s a purpose to my life. And that purpose is to save the dwarf hamsters from discrimination.
September 15, 2011 at 2:15 pm
As the owner of a Dwarf Hamster I know all to well the difficulties they can face, I was regularly kicked out of McDonalds because apparently she isn’t a welcome client, don’t get me started on Costco. Also the several driving school refused to teach her how to drive.
Signed as
Arty Craftard
September 15, 2011 at 2:15 pm
I was in tears over the end of my relationship until I saw this. I’m still sad, but at least the tears are done, and I had a smile.
September 15, 2011 at 2:38 pm
Oh honey. I recently lost a relationship too and have been puffed up like a toad. I want you to know I feel your pain. There’s no way he is as cute as you are and hey, we all know what HE DID with hamsters. Hang in there. xxoo
September 15, 2011 at 2:39 pm
I can email you a crap ton of hilarious hamster photos if you need some cheering up.
Sorry about your relationship ending 
September 15, 2011 at 2:51 pm
Start a new relationship… with chocolate.
Did your partner build up a tolerance?
…Oh, that’s why I’m forever single…
September 15, 2011 at 3:22 pm
I’m sorry your relationship ended. You’ll feel better sooner than you imagine.
September 15, 2011 at 3:36 pm
Especially if you set this as your home page.
September 15, 2011 at 5:23 pm
I’m in the same position! Out of nowhere, he decided that he “didn’t want to commit” and that I’m “too full of drama”. Boys are stupid! *hugs*
September 15, 2011 at 8:59 pm
… throw rocks at them.
September 16, 2011 at 2:11 am
Throw dwarf hamsters at them.
September 16, 2011 at 7:50 am
No one cries over the dead boyfriends.
(Hmm, I imagine someone outside the regretsiverse will not understand this and will use it against me in court… )
September 15, 2011 at 5:27 pm
No more tears, unless they’re glittery eagle tears!
September 15, 2011 at 7:48 pm
Um, ya, I’m gonna have to wrap this up. No being nice in the comments.
Thank you!
Admin
September 15, 2011 at 8:39 pm
Sounds like it’s time for a hot threesome with two guys by the name of Ben and Jerry. Ohhhh yeahhhh.
September 16, 2011 at 5:19 am
Ben and Jerry get sloppy seconds, after Papa Murphy.
September 16, 2011 at 6:19 am
I am soooo sorry to hear that, I too am going through a break up and it’s so hard when I have to see him because of the kids. Regretsy is such an awesome place with such awesome people, that hopefully you know we are all here for ya.
September 16, 2011 at 7:41 am
Coming back and seeing the love made it all betters.
Now if I could just kick this hangover…is 9:41 too early for hair of the dog?
September 16, 2011 at 12:28 pm
One of my students was drinking Gatorade by the gallon this morning. She said some people use it to help with hangovers.
September 15, 2011 at 2:15 pm
I don’t have the emotional fortitude to explain to my husband why our Paypal account is showing a withdrawal to some hamster hoes petition. I just don’t.
September 15, 2011 at 4:11 pm
You don’t NEED to donate, it has nothing to do with the hamsters. They’re just being sneaky and trying to make you think so, when it really goes to iPetition people to buy the essentials: coffee, bandwidth, scotch, and ever faithful server hamsters.
September 15, 2011 at 4:33 pm
I just closed the window on the donation page cause, fuck that.
September 15, 2011 at 2:16 pm
I liken this to votes for woman. Things need to change.
September 15, 2011 at 2:23 pm
Come on, women don’t need rights.
September 15, 2011 at 2:37 pm
You seriously need to check out the “End Women’s Suffrage” group on Facebook. It’s hilarious.
September 15, 2011 at 2:52 pm
Of course I had to look, and there are like 30 groups. Amazing.
September 15, 2011 at 8:38 pm
The Man Show wore it best.
September 15, 2011 at 2:16 pm
I look forward to seeing what similar petitions iPetition finds to notify me about…
September 15, 2011 at 2:16 pm
Do dwarf hamsters eat dwarves to retain their small size? I kind of hope so.
September 15, 2011 at 2:18 pm
Also, does this fit a taxidermy hamster? Hahahhaahahaa
September 15, 2011 at 2:40 pm
You keep them in a REALLY small cage. Like goldfish. I like to use a vintage cricket cage for my hamster. Cricket cage because it’s tiny, vintage because I am an asshole.
September 15, 2011 at 2:53 pm
No, they eat the “regular” hamsters like the thin cows eating the fat ones in one of the “Joseph and … Technicolour Dreamcoat” songs.
September 15, 2011 at 6:29 pm
They are bonsai hamsters. No lie.
September 15, 2011 at 9:16 pm
I suddenly feel the need to do some market research on the viability of hamster foie gras.
September 15, 2011 at 2:17 pm
OH! I am all over this crazy shit! Etsy sellers and resellers of hamster costumes (but not dwarf hamster costumes) YOU are on my radar!
September 16, 2011 at 8:59 am
if a bunch of hamster costumes start cropping up, we’ll know where they got the idea from, LOL
September 15, 2011 at 2:17 pm
I signed the petition! As a smaller than stature human, I feel the sting of sizeism. I have to hem my pants because the rest of you normal stature people insist on wearing pants that are the appropriate length.
This is for all of the dwarf hamsters who don’t have little hamster sewing machines to hem their little hamster costumes!
September 15, 2011 at 2:39 pm
Amen! Being relegated to the kids’ section sucks! And most of them are too long too!
September 15, 2011 at 4:13 pm
But hey, it’s cheaper sometimes! Even if it is slightly awkward to be dodging around the kiddie jeans with dark sunglasses on…
September 15, 2011 at 5:50 pm
No more awkward than dodging around the jrs dept. was because the petites dept. looks like everything was made for nursing home residents. My husband has been told that if I ever start choosing to wear polyester pull-on pants and sweatshirts with iron-on flowers and fake-lace collars on them, he is to set me adrift on an iceberg immediately. Or if I start dyeing my hair like Mrs. Slocombe.
September 16, 2011 at 5:29 am
That explains the “Plus Size” selection, then. They just blow up the petite size patterns. Most “Plus Size” pants are long enough for 8-foot-tall women.
September 15, 2011 at 4:11 pm
I love perusing the comments sections on gap.com for the people who whine that all the clothes are for tiny people, etc. As someone who’s 5’0″ and constantly has to hem EVERYTHING, I have to say I respectfully disagree with those people.
These are the same people who claim the jeans are “defective” because they’ve been a size 12 for years, but the size 12 that arrived was too tight/too small. You know, barring the fact that going up a size would solve the problem…
September 15, 2011 at 9:01 pm
And what’s with the sweaters made for orangutangs? Who has arms that long?
September 15, 2011 at 9:18 pm
Me. My mother still calls me Monkey Arms…[sigh].
September 16, 2011 at 9:09 am
Someone with a torso and arms as long as mine.
September 15, 2011 at 9:18 pm
vanity sizing, what’s a size 0 now, was a size 8 in the 40s and 50s
September 15, 2011 at 9:57 pm
That actually makes me feel a bit better.
September 16, 2011 at 7:16 am
Who the heck is complain about the GAP not having clothes for the non-tiny? Thats one of the only places you can always find sizes above 12. Thank the denim gods for the Gap.
September 15, 2011 at 2:17 pm
I’ll bet they’ll say some of their best friends are dwarf hamsters. Fuckers.
September 15, 2011 at 2:18 pm
I fucking hate all hamsters. Stupid furry little bastards.
September 15, 2011 at 2:19 pm
“H.O.E.S.” I died.
September 15, 2011 at 2:19 pm
that’s a stupid costume. This one is better.
September 15, 2011 at 2:35 pm
Turns out, hamster costumes are a thing:
http://babybanter.sheknows.com/2011/03/hamster-costume-parade/
September 15, 2011 at 3:41 pm
I am pretty sure that’s a guinea pig.
September 15, 2011 at 4:10 pm
Both of them are guinea pigs. Guinea pigs are where it’s at in the rodent world. Or maybe a degu. But I miss my little hammy – little bastard kept getting out of his cage; it still baffles me.
September 16, 2011 at 12:03 am
I once had my hamster get out of her cage, and find the Chinese food leftovers left on the floor. It was a dorm room.
I don’t know how long she’d been standing up to her chest in cold hot-and-sour soup when I got back and found her. She was not happy. I had to give her a bath.
September 15, 2011 at 4:15 pm
Have you ever seen the Pandemic episodes on South Park?
September 15, 2011 at 5:52 pm
Seen it, loved it.
September 15, 2011 at 5:41 pm
I have no use for rodents of any kind, but I NEED that tiny dinosaur running around my home! So frickin adorable!
September 15, 2011 at 9:19 pm
get a zhu zhu pet, and the costume will fit it!
plus, if it pisses you off, take out it’s batteries!
September 15, 2011 at 11:02 pm
I now feel the need to secretly replace one of my niece’s many Zhu Zhu pets with a real hamster… considering her mom plays with them more than she does, this could turn out to be extremely entertaining.
September 16, 2011 at 10:28 am
On the next Candid Camera…We’ve secretly replaced this girl’s Zhu Zhu pet with a real hamster. Let’s watch the girl’s mom to see how quickly she notices that ZZ is uncharacteristically nibbling at her fingers and peeing on her hand. Hilarity ensues when she tries to remove the batteries.
September 15, 2011 at 2:51 pm
O.M.G. that is the cutest guinea pig costume I have EVER seen! (and a really cute pig, too!) The wings, the *tail* … perfection!
September 15, 2011 at 3:02 pm
Just got two guinea pigs. I now know what I’m getting for Christmas.
September 16, 2011 at 2:14 am
Get the other one a little princess costume — or maybe a little thatched roof cottage costume.
September 15, 2011 at 4:24 pm
To all the guinea pig images:
OMFG, GUINEA PIG SQUEEEEEE!
Uh, yeah, guinea pigs are a favorite pet type of mine.
September 15, 2011 at 8:40 pm
GOD DAMN IT PEOPLE IT’S ITALIAN-AMERICAN PIG.
September 15, 2011 at 9:04 pm
Can we change it to Guido Pig? Or maybe Andean Snack Food™?
September 16, 2011 at 5:36 am
When I was a kid, around 8, we had 16 guinea pigs. You haven’t heard a racket until you’ve walked into a garage housing 16 guinea pigs, with a bag of oats’n'groats.
September 16, 2011 at 7:19 am
i dont know if oats’n'groats is a real thing or not, but I laughed my ass off at it, so thumbs up for you.
September 16, 2011 at 9:01 am
Our max was 5 at once. Most effective alarm clocks EVER.
September 16, 2011 at 11:02 am
Yes, Oats’n'Groats is a real thing. Until now I’ve known it only as parakeet food, but my Italian-American family tried to assimilate very quickly, so my father wouldn’t allow any of use to have a guinea pig.
September 15, 2011 at 5:32 pm
Okay, I may have to give in to the “PLEASE can i have a pet” pleas just to get this costume.
Too. Cute. For. Snark.
September 15, 2011 at 2:19 pm
Whoever it was that posted as “Edward Pattinson” on the petition…I love you.
September 15, 2011 at 2:19 pm
I think being a dwarf hamster might be a Godsend in this case.
September 15, 2011 at 2:20 pm
what about those poor huge teddy bear hamsters? can’t they dress up too, or do you have to be tiny?
September 15, 2011 at 2:20 pm
When i was young I had a “normal” sized hamster, my step-sister had a dwarf hamster. That tiny bastard choked on it’s food. I had to dislodge a seed from it’s mouth and then I tried to give it mouth to mouth and do tiny tiny chest compressions. Sadly the little guy didn’t make it.
Though it does make for a really funny story about how I gave CPR to a dwarf hamster when I was 12.
September 15, 2011 at 5:52 pm
That needs a Girl Scout badge.
September 15, 2011 at 7:19 pm
The standard of care these days is automated hamster defibrillation:
- don wool socks
- pick up hamster
- walk across carpet to door
- say “I’m clear, you’re clear, everybody’s clear”
- touch hamster nose to doorknob.
-resume compressions.
September 16, 2011 at 2:15 am
LOL I died!
…too soon?
September 16, 2011 at 3:14 am
Asystole is an extremely stable heart rhythm.
September 18, 2011 at 3:31 am
I smell doctor humor!
September 16, 2011 at 6:30 am
That was an awesome story, my Aunt and Uncle each had a hamster, normal I think, well hers got out and chewed off his hamsters head for his food. Her hamster was exiled from the house for it, stupid hamster ate all her good stuff and then murdered for more good stuff.
September 15, 2011 at 2:22 pm
No rodent should be deprived of a costume. Stop the discrimination now!
September 15, 2011 at 2:24 pm
oh my god it’s so fluffy I’m gonna die
September 15, 2011 at 2:33 pm
Oh, thank you for that. Perfect response.
September 15, 2011 at 6:37 pm
I almost choked on my chocolate. Totally worth it though.
September 15, 2011 at 2:27 pm
Where are its legs?!
September 15, 2011 at 4:01 pm
Syrian hamster ate them…
September 15, 2011 at 2:34 pm
Is he dressed up as a dreidel?
September 15, 2011 at 2:47 pm
spin him, see if he shits a prize, and there’s your answer.
September 15, 2011 at 6:10 pm
It is a Seattle Mariners uniform.
Her name is Chinpoko. Here she is with her sister Chubsy.
And her other sister, Chewbacca, dressed as the Mariner Moose.
September 15, 2011 at 9:07 pm
Those are awesome. Are most guinea pigs Mariners fans, or just them? I’ve only had ferrets and they just steal bases…
September 15, 2011 at 2:52 pm
*aaaaahhhhhh* /dying from cute
(and aren’t guinea pigs just redonkulously adorable?)
September 15, 2011 at 7:25 pm
I had six Guinea Pigs over the years. The patriarch was MegaPig, who was bigger than the other piggies.. including a prodigious scrotum which he’d drag over the carpets during “floor time”.
Once I rushed MegaPig to the vet because he was very sick. The vet cured him by taking his temperature rectally. I’ll never forget the dirty look I got from him.
And what I thought was a tumor on his foot was a dried turd.
And it only cost $15 more than what I paid for him at WheekerSmart.
September 15, 2011 at 8:36 pm
Dirty look from the pig or the vet?
September 16, 2011 at 2:17 am
From the thermometer.
September 16, 2011 at 3:16 am
The guinea pig. Megapig’s eyes got very dark and he had this “Prison rape: I’ve heard of this.” look on his face.
He lived another seven years so something went right.
September 16, 2011 at 6:33 am
adorable yes, stinks to high heaven
September 15, 2011 at 2:59 pm
In a Mariners outfit?
I hope you named it “Twitchynose Suzuki.”
September 15, 2011 at 5:31 pm
How could all that fluff fit into that little costume? So frikin cuuuuute!
September 15, 2011 at 2:25 pm
Everybody knows Syrian hamsters are terrorists anyway.
WHY DO YOU HATE AMERICA?
September 15, 2011 at 7:55 pm
Where are all the dwarf hamsters, anyway?
Rendition!
September 15, 2011 at 2:26 pm
my hamster is so sick of not having anything to wear for halloween. every year i sit through her tears. i will stand for it no longer!!!
September 15, 2011 at 2:28 pm
I don’t discriminate against any hamsters, I hate them all equally. Toss up between Syrians and Russians as to which are nastiest, though.
September 15, 2011 at 2:40 pm
I just toss them into the snake’s cage regardless of nastiness.
September 15, 2011 at 5:53 pm
Rats are cheaper you know, and they multiply much quicker… But as a snake person I’m sure you know that
September 15, 2011 at 8:27 pm
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September 15, 2011 at 2:54 pm
Evil little fuckers. I speak as an ex petshop employee. I’d rather handle scorpions. I developed a technique of scooping one up quickly with a box, then flipping it so the hamster got tossed in suddenly, then slamming the lid shut. That saved my fingers, but the customers didn’t seem to like it, & I ended up back working at the check-outs
September 15, 2011 at 3:03 pm
I feel your pain. Couldn’t tell you how many times the furry bastards took flight when they attatched themselves to my fingers. Or the ones who stand on their hind legs and charge the length of a 20 gallon tank while making that evil noise.
September 15, 2011 at 3:18 pm
After boxing up a particularly nasty specimen that a customer had insisted on having, I taped the box shut, & suggested he not open it on his way to the check-outs. It was a huge store, & I got to count to oooh, five, if I recall correctly, before I heard the shriek. He had the gall to come back (dripping blood) & ask me to swap it for another one!
September 15, 2011 at 3:52 pm
ButtHurt Barbie, love how they wanted to swap for another, as if all those little dwarf Siberians don’t bite! Nasty little buggers.
September 15, 2011 at 4:11 pm
It was the big tank, roiling with a surging sea of idiot hamsters, stamping in circular motion, cute faces upturned, teeth bared, all ready to bite me should I reach just a little closer & try to remove one of their evil brethren…
*shudder*
Pet-retail flashbacks are the worst.
September 15, 2011 at 5:25 pm
thank you for sharing your pain… I thought I was the only ex-petshop employee who hated them! We had huge leather gloves for wrangling the little fuckers until the owner said screw it… feed ‘em to the snake and be done with it!
September 15, 2011 at 5:48 pm
So true. Seeing an 8 year old boy squeal and run for the cages made me head for the back to hide and smoke cigarettes til the danger passed.
September 16, 2011 at 8:48 am
Oh God, this. I hate that noise. So far I’ve managed to avoid the teeth by grabbing the little twats by the scruff of their necks. They pedal like fury in midair, especially the tiny ones.
September 15, 2011 at 6:53 pm
When I was young I had some Siberian dwarfs with ‘cage aggression’ fine when they were out, but when you stuck your hand into the cage they would spring up to chomp into fingers. So… I kept a pair of heavy leather gardening gloves by the cage.
Now, fast forward to lady coming over to visit my parents, bringing her small unruly children. They go into my room (supposed to be off limits since I wasn’t there.) see a hamster cage with two adorable fuzzballs, and ignore the gloves, reaching right in. Cue tears and blood. I never loved those little hateballs more.
September 16, 2011 at 2:19 am
You should have kept one in each sleeve, and then launched them at muggers.
September 16, 2011 at 4:07 pm
As a young teen, I once went shopping with a hamster in my pocket, on top of my money.
I told an antique salesman called Gordon Bennett that I had a hamster in my pocket, & he thought I was kidding, & poked a finger into my pocket.
The hamster in my pocket woke up & bit him.
He didn’t entirely see the funny side.
September 16, 2011 at 5:46 am
They didn’t give you tongs? I’ve had ONE hamster in my life, and I used tongs if I had to remove her from her cage.
(She escaped, eventually, and was found a couple weeks later, under the sink, trapped in a previously empty juice bottle. I followed the smell.)
September 15, 2011 at 2:29 pm
Since we can’t thumbs-down Rachel on FB, can we do it here??
September 15, 2011 at 2:45 pm
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September 15, 2011 at 2:30 pm
Guys, I can’t lie, I found this hamster costume to be adorable.
I want a hamster. A hamster to put in a costume. Probably a Syrian Hamster.
I am ashamed of myself– does this make me one racist?
September 15, 2011 at 2:40 pm
No, you are not
Thank you for the kind words 
September 15, 2011 at 5:59 pm
Thank you for having such a great sense of humor! And welcome to our snarky corner of the ‘net. If I had a hamster, I’d definitely buy a costume from you.
September 15, 2011 at 7:05 pm
I make costumes for hamsters, if I didn’t have a sense of humor, I’d be batshit insane. Then again…… LOL
September 15, 2011 at 2:30 pm
Apparently they’re not allowed to drive KIAs either… poor Dwarf Hamsters.
September 15, 2011 at 2:34 pm
ahaha! I didn’t see your comment until mine posted. But I’m totally stealing the joke and putting it in my Etsy shop. Might even sell it to Urban Outfitters.
September 15, 2011 at 2:33 pm
Seems to me that the Dwarf hamsters always get the shitty end of things. Where’s THEIR Kia commercial huh? Down with hypocrisy!
September 15, 2011 at 2:42 pm
I promise I’m not discriminating
I’m willing to make this costume in almost any size, it’s just the ones I have listed on Etsy are ones I have pre-made, and they are the larger ones for syrian hamsters.
If someone sends me the measurements of their critter, both back length (from nose to base of spine) and a waist measurement, I’ll make em one.
September 15, 2011 at 3:38 pm
Wow! An awesome Etsy seller with a sense of humor for the second day in a row! That’s like, a record or something.
Your costumes are adorable. And I kinda like the Kindle cases, too.
September 15, 2011 at 7:05 pm
Thank you!
September 15, 2011 at 3:42 pm
Of COURSE you’re discriminating- if you weren’t, there wouldn’t be any real reason to sign the petition!
September 15, 2011 at 3:53 pm
Way to have a sense of humor about this, arosecreates. This makes it so much more fun to write outraged diatribes on behalf of Growth-Restricted Hamster.
However, I think you need to take a long hard look at yourself, maybe unpack your invisible habitrail ovo of Syrian privilege, and ask yourself why you never thought to offer the same things to dwarf hamsters. Maybe you’ve just never examined the issue, and you’ve taken Syrian hamster privilege for granted. Once you can do a thorough self-examination, the healing can really begin.
September 15, 2011 at 5:01 pm
Careful, whimsiclesthenics has a speculum…
September 15, 2011 at 7:06 pm
:p
September 15, 2011 at 3:54 pm
I’m a big Star Wars geek and I’ve always wanted a pet Bantha. But Banthas aren’t real so could you make me a Bantha costume that will fit an average size Elephant? (African or Asian Elephant, I’m not picky.) Also, would you happen to know where I can find a good quality used Elephant?
September 15, 2011 at 4:36 pm
I hear Babar’s looking for a gig. Times are tough.
September 15, 2011 at 9:17 pm
Man, from “King of the Elephants” to fantasy fulfillment for people he met online? Let me guess, coke problem?
September 15, 2011 at 3:58 pm
Your hamster costumes are adorable…haven’t owned a hamster in at least 24 years though (eek!)
September 15, 2011 at 4:17 pm
I’m really impressed that a person can do those measurements on a hamster and come back with all fingers intact. You must be the hamster whisperer!
September 15, 2011 at 4:46 pm
I’ve owned like 3 or 4 hamsters and only one of them ever bit me, and I think I freaked the little guy out with my nail tips.
My first hamster was a rescue and it used to use its little teeth to pull on the bottom of my shirt and make a bed, then sleep on me. It also got loose once, and after flipping out looking for it for an hour or so, it just sort of wandered out of my sisters room like it was no big deal. I loved that little guy.
September 15, 2011 at 7:08 pm
Never been bitten by a hamster I didn’t scare, and that was only once, and it was my hamster Cloud, after she gave birth to a litter of babies, and I reached in her cage to change her food dish, and she nipped me. Almost immediatley, when she realized what she did, was trying to crawl in my hand and be sweet.
September 15, 2011 at 4:45 pm
Thumbs up to you for being such a good sport.
September 15, 2011 at 7:09 pm
Thank you! I try to be a good sport, and be nice when people are nice to me. There’s no point in being mean.
September 15, 2011 at 9:13 pm
Aw, but we have a reputation to uphold…
September 15, 2011 at 6:00 pm
Oh, you do rock! I love your hamster group name…..
FWIW – I absolutely think your costume is adorable!
September 16, 2011 at 12:39 am
Oh my god, someone who understands humor!! You are awesome (and the costumes are adorable btw).
September 16, 2011 at 6:42 am
Did you not hear how evil little dwarf hamsters are! You want us to measure them? How about I just send the hamster to you and you can send it back with clothes
September 16, 2011 at 9:04 am
I’m all for that!
Don’t know if my boyfriend would be though. 
September 15, 2011 at 2:44 pm
My comment – “How shameful. I shudder to think what you do with gerbils.”
September 15, 2011 at 2:46 pm
Roborovskis are where it’s at, stop the hatin’
September 15, 2011 at 2:48 pm
Um, mole rats are the naked ones. I feel some mole rat hate. And I’d like a pterodactyl costume. Shorty’s always wanted to fly.
September 15, 2011 at 9:16 pm
Naked mole rats are creepy… they have a colony here at the Jacksonville Zoo. Although hearing the syllables stretched out to “nek-kid mo-uhl ray-yats” was amusing.
September 17, 2011 at 2:30 am
We’ve got them at the Portland Zoo, too.
September 15, 2011 at 2:48 pm
Stop the Hate! End Vermingate!
September 15, 2011 at 3:41 pm
Is this a sampler or a t-shirt? It’s worthy of many thumbs-up, that’s for sure!
September 15, 2011 at 4:47 pm
I think it would work as a sign to bring to an entirely unrelated political rally of some sort.
September 15, 2011 at 6:46 pm
How about the Colbert Report?
September 16, 2011 at 2:23 am
How ’bout a Tea Party rally? …No, wait, that’s too relevant.
September 15, 2011 at 9:23 pm
should i make this into a miniature tshirt for the hamsters? or maybe a miniature picket sign, and take their photos with it?
September 15, 2011 at 9:40 pm
I love your offer to picket yourself. Not just anyone would do that for our amusement.
September 16, 2011 at 9:05 am
I also own a miniature metal shopping cart, and a miniature refridgerator, if you would like them to pose in front of one, lemme know.
If you are serious about wanting the “picketing” photos, lemme know via facebook.
https://www.facebook.com/a.rose.creates1
September 15, 2011 at 2:49 pm
Having owned a small herd of Russian dwarf hamsters (bought 2 “females”, ended up with babies), I will say those things are pure evil, and should not be allowed access to disguises, or weapons, or anything to aid them in their evil Russian plots to overtake the rodent world. They should all be strung up by their wee little toes and forced to listen to Justin Beiber on repeat.
September 15, 2011 at 2:49 pm
holy fucking shit, keep the cute animals coming. i die.
September 15, 2011 at 2:51 pm
Maybe if TLC laid off making reality shows about dwarf hamsters they wouldn’t be seen as fun little toys.
Doesn’t help that they give crazy titles to their specials like “Mermaid Girl” and “The 80-Pound Baby”.
September 15, 2011 at 2:51 pm
Finally. About time somebody was courageous enough to out the sizeists in our communities.
September 15, 2011 at 2:53 pm
September 15, 2011 at 2:53 pm
hm that didnt work :/
September 15, 2011 at 2:55 pm
September 15, 2011 at 4:24 pm
I <3 this!
September 15, 2011 at 2:53 pm
I love hamsters of all shapes and sizes. Mine passed away a few months ago due to old age, and I miss his fat little face. His name was Louis.
September 15, 2011 at 4:20 pm
I still miss mine, and that was 10 years ago. This post totally makes me want another hamster.
September 16, 2011 at 7:47 am
I had a dwarf hamster who actually very sweet until right before he died. His name was Bamster Kaboom. I miss him alot now.
September 15, 2011 at 2:55 pm
September 15, 2011 at 3:15 pm
I knew that joke was in the ether, I was waiting for it. I just didn’t expect it to be so…wonderful! So perfectly crafted and executed.
Damn that was beautiful.
September 15, 2011 at 6:33 pm
I have to agree…”So perfectly crafted and executed.”
September 15, 2011 at 7:11 pm
But… where’s Gere’s glitter tear?
September 15, 2011 at 3:03 pm
You can get costumes for your dwarf hamster. They’re not advertised, but if you go to the back door of Etsy late at night and ask Bob for some “fertiliser”, you can get one at twice the price of the Syrian costume.
It has in-built braces so you can slowly stretch your dwarf hamster into normal size, the same way that a doctor adjusts your legs if one is abnormally, grossly shorter than the other.
September 15, 2011 at 9:25 pm
Or, you could just ask me
September 15, 2011 at 3:05 pm
I against people dressing up their dogs in stupid costumes. Hamsters though, that is a different matter, if I had one I’d dress that thing like a dinosaur every day.
September 16, 2011 at 2:26 am
Would it be a different dinosaur every day? You could make a calendar.
September 16, 2011 at 3:02 pm
Pterodactyl Ptuesdays.
September 15, 2011 at 3:06 pm
Think we can get Peter Dinklage as a spokesperson?
*dream*
September 15, 2011 at 9:24 pm
I love you. I suspect there would be a rant included with having him as a spokesperson. I can just see the Funny or Die video now…
September 15, 2011 at 3:11 pm
They could make this right by making some teeny tiny Crown Royal booties in dwarf hamster sizes.
September 15, 2011 at 3:20 pm
September 15, 2011 at 3:22 pm
I love that the etsy shop owner for this item signed the petition.
September 15, 2011 at 3:24 pm
I love it when they have a sense of humour, although we have been less insult-y…
September 15, 2011 at 4:22 pm
Probably because, while it’s silly, it’s just too damn cute (and well-made) to be snarky over.
September 15, 2011 at 4:26 pm
Of course I would. I own dwarf hamsters, and syrians. I’m honestly giggling my ass off.
September 15, 2011 at 3:49 pm
Not only did the seller sign the petition, but the referenced being on Regretsy in the listing. (as well as whoring out a couple of other sites)
September 15, 2011 at 4:27 pm
September 15, 2011 at 5:18 pm
It’s okay. We’re all whores here
September 15, 2011 at 5:42 pm
we’re proud of being whores and we welcome you! Your stuff is adorable, thanks for being a sweetie!
September 16, 2011 at 7:00 am
and fat jealous losers who make fun of real art because we’re too shitty to make our own stuff
September 15, 2011 at 5:51 pm
Yes I know, and you totally rock, you B.I.T.C.H.(e.s. founder)
As felesroo says we are all whores. And I just like saying “whoring out” whenever possible.
I’m whoring myself out right now just by posting this!
September 15, 2011 at 4:18 pm
Free all the hamsters!!! How dare people lock them in cages and keep them as pets. It’s wrong they should be free and live in nature. Hamsters have rights too. I’m outraged! Making them run endlessly on the little wheels and walk in their own poop. Forcing them to wear outfits and eat pelletized food. Can’t you see the sadness in their tiny beady eyes?? It’s gone on for too long. Free all the hamsters, free all the hamsters. I’m calling PETA right now!
September 15, 2011 at 5:17 pm
Sorry, that was my cat. Little bugger is always sneaking onto the computer to leer at flounce cats.
September 15, 2011 at 4:33 pm
OMG! I want one so badly. If I had a hamster, he/she would so wear this.
September 15, 2011 at 4:57 pm
But do their mothere smell of elderberries?
September 15, 2011 at 4:58 pm
When I was 10 I used to make little clothes for my pet mice. The problem was that they could always squeeze out of them. They loved the blankets I would make for them though.
September 15, 2011 at 7:12 pm
The hamsters can slip out of the costumes easily too. I do that for their safety. The costume is basically for taking some cutesy photos.
September 15, 2011 at 9:26 pm
I have the same problem with ferrets… It’s like a tube sock with bone structure.
September 16, 2011 at 9:16 am
That’s the best description for ferrets I’ve ever heard.
September 16, 2011 at 2:30 am
Mice really love tiny little hammocks too, for some reason. Or at least the one mouse I ever owned did. She would chew on it, stuff it with fluff, cuddle in it, use it as a jumping off point from which to lunge at you with teeth bared — she was technically completely feral, but we loved her.
September 16, 2011 at 9:15 am
Rak’n, the hamster who is now internet famous in the dino costume, used to crawl up on top of his water bottle, and jump off onto his wheel. Not the inside of the wheel for a jump running start, no, he’ll jump onto the top or side of the outside of the wheel, and fall on his butt. Acts suprised it didn’t work every single time. Needless to say, he now has a water dish, which gets fresh water 2x a day.
spoiled hamster!
September 15, 2011 at 5:00 pm
I’ve never given cpr to a hamster, but have put an OG tube in a goat. Sadly, after four years of post-secondary, I’m basically a glorified taxi driver that occasionally gets to use loud sirens and shiny lights.. So that’s probably the most medically relevant thing I’ve done. And my parents were so proud when I went back to school…
September 15, 2011 at 5:18 pm
I for one am glad that the wrong has been righted. All is right in the world of rodents once more. Fuzzy on.
September 15, 2011 at 5:18 pm
I love it when sellers have a great sense of humour. This makes me endlessly happy. Go B.I.T.C.H.E.S.!
On a sidenote…fuck guinea pigs. Anyone ever seen a mini-pig? Now that shit is adorable!
September 15, 2011 at 5:20 pm
Seller acronyms: BI-WINNING.
We should adopt this one.
September 15, 2011 at 5:21 pm
Oh I love the seller. B.I.T.C.H.E.S. Represent.
September 15, 2011 at 5:22 pm
Best. Etsy. Seller. EVER!!
September 15, 2011 at 10:50 pm
September 15, 2011 at 5:23 pm
This whole event has made me happy forever.
If I join and quit Etsy, do you think they’d send me a picture of a sad hamster in an oversized dino costume?
September 15, 2011 at 6:19 pm
I can send you a photo of Rak’n (the hamster in the costume) yawning, where it looks like he’s mad!
September 15, 2011 at 7:07 pm
YES!
September 16, 2011 at 5:58 am
Oh, please post it here. Many of us will make a Flounce Hamster of him!!
September 16, 2011 at 9:23 am
I don’t know how to post photos, but, I can link you to my fb page and upload it there! Just please leave a message on the FB page, or send me a message on FB, and let me know if you use it to make anything really cool.
https://www.facebook.com/a.rose.creates1
look for the album labeled “the kids”
September 16, 2011 at 8:11 am
Post it here!!!! <3
September 16, 2011 at 2:33 am
I misread “dino costume” as “dildo costume” and initially that made perfect sense to me. Ah, Regretsy.
(And uh, would that kind of costume be available in “dwarf” too? Asking for a friend.)
September 16, 2011 at 9:24 am
Yes! Just let me know so I can make a custom listing for you!
September 16, 2011 at 5:23 pm
A dildo dwarf hamster costume is for a pretty small niche market. Pretty much just Richard Gere.
September 15, 2011 at 5:23 pm
I’m glad I signed one of those online petitions and actually elicited change. Hamster equality! Someone needs to photoshop a hamster face on those equal signs people have on their cars.
September 15, 2011 at 5:24 pm
This is so awesome! Quick, someone buy something, she deserves it!
September 15, 2011 at 5:48 pm
Only $5! If I had a hamster, I’d be all over that, just because she’s got such a great sense of humor.
September 15, 2011 at 6:20 pm
I sell cat stuff too
September 15, 2011 at 7:10 pm
Damn, I needed my paycheck, too!
September 15, 2011 at 5:25 pm
I like the black Russian hamsters. Or whatever they are called.
Also – I was busy making crafts and missed all the hoopla!
September 15, 2011 at 8:32 pm
If it’s the black Russian dwarf variety, they are called, “Blackberries.”
September 15, 2011 at 5:26 pm
OMG THOSE ARE AWESOME I WANT ONE. And a hamster to put it on!
I’m also glad she has a sense of humor (Of course, how could anyone selling dinosaur costumes for hamsters not have a sense of humor?) and played along with our shenanigans.
September 15, 2011 at 7:20 pm
All of the hamsters are named after characters in Trailer Park Boys as well. Rak’n is the one in the photo, and I also have Randy and Mister Lahey (dwarf hamsters, Randy passed away on tuesday) and Corey and Trevor (corey passed away a few months ago).
September 16, 2011 at 7:05 am
I’m sorry to hear your hamster passed away! It’s sad to lose a pet, I now know why you’re with us on the petition thing, RIP Randy, these dwarf costumes are for you!
September 16, 2011 at 7:06 am
Also RIP Corey
September 15, 2011 at 5:27 pm
Some of you are the sort of sizeist hamsterist bastards that would break into a dwarf hamster’s house just to put everything up on the top shelf! #shame
September 15, 2011 at 9:27 pm
My family already does that to me all the time.
September 15, 2011 at 5:28 pm
That gif in the update will haunt my dreams for the rest of my life.
September 15, 2011 at 5:29 pm
This is so beautiful I might cry.
September 15, 2011 at 5:40 pm
hahaha… I love when sellers have a sense of humor. Pretty clever, too. Sadly, I have no little critters right now, but she has some other cute things. I feel a need to support her.
September 17, 2011 at 5:45 pm
September 15, 2011 at 5:40 pm
Our dwarf hamster Ceara would like to thank all of you H.O.E.S. for your efforts, and express her hope that we can all get along with the B.I.T.C.H.E.S, by sitting a looking cute.
September 15, 2011 at 6:21 pm
Give your hamster a sunflower seed for me! <3 soooo cute
September 15, 2011 at 8:51 pm
I’m sure you love your pet and all, so maybe you don’t see it, but that hamster is working on a plan for world domination. Look at her, with those beady eyes, rubbing her little hands together. She’s the personification (hamsterization) of evil. That is a hamster making teeny tiny weapons of mass destruction.
September 16, 2011 at 2:38 am
Oh definitely; look at those evil hands! Those teensy weensy tiny evil hands. Those itsy bitsy adorable scrumptious microscopic widdle squeentsy wee– OM NOM NOM.
Sorry, mad2physicist, I accidentally your hamster.
September 15, 2011 at 5:44 pm
Sellers with a sense of humor about themselves rock. If this costume could fit my 18 month old, I’d buy it. Because at this point, I’m so unenthused about Halloween that she may go as “The Amazing Droolie”.
September 15, 2011 at 5:52 pm
I wanted some Where the Wild Things Are monsters for my kids’ Halloween costumes, but they’re either hideous or $100-300. Maybe Dinosaur Hamster is the way to go.
September 15, 2011 at 6:23 pm
They are not that hard to make, I turned a pair of footie pajamas into a “where the wild things are” costume for myself. (found a kids xxl footie pjs at target, added a hood, and tail)
September 15, 2011 at 9:09 pm
I like you even more now. Thanks!
I think I can handle a Max costume, since it’s basically pajamas to begin with, but those monsters are a little beyond what I can make happen in my artistic ability.
September 15, 2011 at 5:49 pm
This might be my favourite post ever, A Rose you are a true pro, B.I.T.C.H.E.S. honestly made me roll.
September 15, 2011 at 6:02 pm
That is one classy B.I.T.C.H.
September 15, 2011 at 6:02 pm
What about bunnies? rats? mice? And the poor, poor ferrets!
FOR THE LOVE OF DOG, WILL SOMEBODY PLEASE THINK OF THE FERRETS?
September 15, 2011 at 9:28 pm
Ferrets? What about the badgers?!!!
September 16, 2011 at 12:47 pm
My heart aches for the naked mole rats.
September 15, 2011 at 9:35 pm
Mustelids On The Hunt for Equal Rights, Ferrets (Equally Righteous)…
M.O.T.H.E.R. F(E.R)s
I know… trying too hard
September 16, 2011 at 9:26 am
No such thing as trying to hard.
September 15, 2011 at 6:04 pm
behold the awesome power of fat, jealous losers
…… (oh, and etsy sellers that actually have talent and a sense of humour and all that rot)
[glitter tears welling. eagles soaring. gifs forming]
September 16, 2011 at 7:15 am
You do know that since we have an etsy seller who has humor and is great at what she does and started B.I.T.C.H.E.S. That the world may in fact be ending?
September 15, 2011 at 6:06 pm
I will now spend the rest of my evening looking at hamster videos on youtube.
September 15, 2011 at 6:10 pm
I’m #666 on the petition. I feel as though I’ve succeeded and failed simultaneously.
September 15, 2011 at 6:36 pm
“Dear Annie Moose,
Thank you for signing the “ETSY SELLERS: STOP DISCRIMINATING AGAINST DWARF HAMSTERS” petition at iPetitions.com.
Your signature is valuable and makes a real difference.”
Aww. How sweet. There should be an Etsy lolcat picture in there somewhere.
September 15, 2011 at 6:37 pm
Those Darn Accordions! perform their classic song Hamsterman.
September 15, 2011 at 7:50 pm
Why didn’t the link work?
http://youtu.be/M70JzlydLzs
September 15, 2011 at 6:41 pm
Totally got on this shit-wagon. I ordered a dino costume for my cat. The seller is being so awesome-tastic that she’s throwing in a catnip toy. My cat is gonna be the coolest dino-wannabe-hamster in town.
September 15, 2011 at 7:21 pm
September 15, 2011 at 7:54 pm
Post a picture when you get it (and get the kitty into it).
September 15, 2011 at 8:21 pm
totally
September 15, 2011 at 9:37 pm
I now have a visual of your cat marauding around as Godzilla in little hamster towns.
September 17, 2011 at 5:47 pm
Ok, your cat costume has been made, and I sent you a photo on Etsy.
September 15, 2011 at 6:56 pm
hamster clothes? well, why not? we already have these…
September 15, 2011 at 7:01 pm
The top one, the pink hoodie, is by http://www.etsy.com/shop/mischiefboutique
She also makes costumes!
September 15, 2011 at 8:06 pm
thank you! I actually meant to make the image a link to the store originally, and then totally forgot.
September 15, 2011 at 9:53 pm
chinchilla cuteness should be classified as a lethal weapon…omg so adorable
September 15, 2011 at 6:59 pm
according to monty python hamsters are quiet, are secretly trying to take over the world and have bombs and drugs !
September 15, 2011 at 8:18 pm
Also, that middle one is really packing. Like distractingly and possibly deformingly so.
September 15, 2011 at 8:04 pm
Oh the horror of it all! (and the cuteness)!!
September 16, 2011 at 7:20 am
That’s how they’re going to get away with it, they’re all going to dress up like dino’s and cute us to death. Evil little suckers.
September 15, 2011 at 8:10 pm
Holy shit, I fucking love her…
September 15, 2011 at 8:45 pm
Moi?
September 15, 2011 at 8:35 pm
Please tell me there is a shufflin’ version of that hamster video coming soon?
September 16, 2011 at 6:08 am
Here already!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zJWA3Vo6TU
September 18, 2011 at 6:18 pm
Band: LMFAO. I just saw their music video last week, and only saw the KIA commercial on Friday night. It will always be Dror’s Song to me.
September 15, 2011 at 9:01 pm
This is exactly why I come to Regretsy every day. To see cute adorable hamsters in costumes, and to witness B.I.T.C.H.E.S. and H.O.E.S. together in harmony. And then to laugh until I cry because none of it really makes sense.
September 15, 2011 at 9:01 pm
How about some tutu/skirts for your hamsters?
http://www.etsy.com/listing/81890800/pink-tutuskirt-for-hamster
http://www.etsy.com/listing/81890922/white-tutuskirt-for-hamster
September 15, 2011 at 10:02 pm
longhaired hamsters HARDLY need tutus!
September 16, 2011 at 2:43 am
So to make tutus can you just attach longhaired hamsters to other hamsters?
Hamception.
September 15, 2011 at 9:03 pm
Y’know, I myself had a proud lil’ robo hamster named Storm Trooper whose heart, NAY, very spirit! allowed him to compete against hamsters and guinea pigs(big fat LOSERS if you ask me!) of every size, and WIN the Petco Hamster Ball derby. (And place second the next year after a series of minor strokes) I took rhetoric and attempted psych-outs from people much younger than I to prove that a hamster’s size does not denote his tenacity! This is an OUTRAGE!
September 15, 2011 at 9:07 pm
the little hamsters are SO fast! I had a campbells that was so fast on her silent spinner she broke it within a week!
September 15, 2011 at 9:39 pm
You’d be surprised at how fast an African Pygmy Hedgehog can go as well…
September 15, 2011 at 9:34 pm
do not disparage the guinea pigs!! They are fat but mighty!
September 15, 2011 at 9:36 pm
So, do you think you’d want to put a costume on this dwarf hamster? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIroYjBikos&feature=related
September 15, 2011 at 10:15 pm
Blowing air at a hamster is actually what you’re supposed to do as punishment, if it bites or something…also, if you enter the nest, may god have mercy on your fingers.
September 15, 2011 at 10:12 pm
I had a dwarf hamster that bit everyone, all the time. She liked to nibble on rocks and chains, despite the presence of a wood chew, coconut shell house, and lots of hamster ball run time. I think she would’ve listened to Korn or metal if she could.
Then again, her husband never bit anyone, and even lived peacefully with his son all his life. They were sweeties, but I don’t think even they would have tolerated a full body costume. That Syrian up there is a hamster of great tolerance!
September 15, 2011 at 10:24 pm
Yes he is! That’s my baby Rak’n. He was a nervous nut when he was in the pet store, by the time I got him home, he relaxed, and I was holding him while he was asleep by the end of the night.
September 15, 2011 at 10:17 pm
I’m just going to leave this here…
Hamster on a piano
September 15, 2011 at 10:38 pm
I object to the dearth of hamster costumes for lizards. Talk about discrimination! Harumph!
September 15, 2011 at 10:49 pm
Will a bunny outfit do?
September 16, 2011 at 12:42 am
Aaah, he loves his bunny! Or he’s just demonstrating what he’s going to do to the human who put him in the bunny costume. O_O
September 16, 2011 at 2:46 am
want! want! want! i have a bearded dragon, he needs a costume. i am not good enough to create it in my artistic ability. i think maybe a hawaiian shirt? and for like… special occasions… i want the dragon wings the guinea pig has.
September 16, 2011 at 2:48 am
Despite reading all the text, I still scrolled down to that picture unconsciously expecting to see a hamster …So the abrupt transition to lizard got an entirely genuine startled “OH JEEZUS” out of me.
I…I think I might be lizardist.
September 16, 2011 at 3:34 am
This post has made it onto Cute Overload o_O
September 16, 2011 at 5:02 am
I came here today through a link on Cute Overload. What a small, small Internet! LOL!
http://cuteoverload.com/2011/09/15/stop-ddscriminating-against-dwarf-hamsters/
September 16, 2011 at 5:38 am
I saw that. I’m having a hard time coming to grips with Regretsy and Cute Overload existing on the same internet.
Never mind that I check both several times a day…
September 16, 2011 at 9:36 pm
I never thought I’d see Regretsy posted on CO. The best part is, some of the CO commenter tend to be pearl clutchers (there was OUTRAGE when Meg posted the word “damn” on CO once). They’re just going to straight up have a heart-attack over here.
September 16, 2011 at 8:09 am
I had never even thought it was possible to put clothes on rodents, but now I can’t help imagining my guinea pig and two gerbils in superhero gear, with tiny capes and tiny masks and tiny spandex underwear. The guinea could be Batman and one of the gerbils could be Robin, and the other gerbil who hogs all the food and therefore is a fatass slob could very damn well stay in the cage and be Alfred. Which would require an equally adorable tiny three-piece suit.
September 17, 2011 at 2:38 am
Didn’t Danger Mouse have a hamster sidekick?
September 17, 2011 at 10:21 pm
Penfold.
September 16, 2011 at 9:36 am
The hamsters’ bulges in that commercial are really disturbing. Whenever it comes on I close my eyes and think of our Dancing Dror instead.
September 16, 2011 at 12:16 pm
So, thanks to the AWESOME people of Regretsy, and sales I made, I was finally able to purchase an item that I’ve been dreaming about for a few years now!
http://www.kamsnaps.com/Pliers-for-Plastic-Snaps/Pliers-for-Plastic-Snaps-Bundle-COSMETIC-BLEMISH-p150.html
Now I can put better snaps on the costumes! (as soon as I recieve it that is, LOL)
September 16, 2011 at 1:14 pm
yay for Regretsy success stories!
September 16, 2011 at 10:02 pm
I figure this way, it will eliminate the metal snaps on the costumes, making them a tad “safer” for the little critters. Plus, it eliminates sewing the little metal ones on.
September 19, 2011 at 12:00 pm
A good sport is so much better than a spoiled sport. Kudos to the seller!