Mrs Nesbit
Mrs Nesbit was the hamster I'd gotten from uni. We'd been doing a behavioural experiment involving positive reinforcement with sugar.
Afterwards, we were told if we could find the hamsters homes we could have them otherwise they were going to hamster heaven. So we each
took one of them home.

I soon found out I'd taken the Houdini of hamsters. No matter what I did Mrs Nesbit would always find a way out. However his massive
sweet tooth, developed by the reinforcement experiment, was his downfall. He'd only ever get as far as the packet of rainbow drops
on the book shelf and would more often than not be sat in the bag eating them.

My mum has always been petrified of animals and for the two years he lived, she was constantly on edge thinking that every bit of hair,
fluff or movement she saw from the corner of her eye was Mrs Nesbit on the run again.
(FootOfTim, Mon 4 Feb 2013, 13:08, Reply)