Remember the pictures of Gabriël's new hamster some time ago?

Well, about a week ago, Gabriël showed me his hamster, saying that it looked different. It had a black stripe from one eye to another, and he didn't think it was there before. Good thing I took pictures in January, making it easy to compare. And indeed - the colour of its face had changed.

I planned to take pictures of it for this blog, but forgot about it again, until today. So I took some pictures, and noticed that the black stripe had mostly disappeared again, but the entire hamster looked different now. See for yourself:

Yes, it really is the same hamster. All 4 pictures :-)

On the left the hamster was 8 weeks old, on the right 18 weeks. Apparently, these hamsters are known for their colour changes, caused by the length of daylight.

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At 7.30 am, this was the view from our window: