why I chose it) I also read true blood and was wondering if your hammys name came from there. I love your hamsters name!! Totally awesome! I called mine Gimli, because I was going to get a dwarf hammy and thought in my own weird way that I was being funny by naming it after the dwarf in lotr. However I ended up getting a syrian, so it didn't fit but I still liked the name. My other hammy was already called chan (rescue) and I couldn't think of another name. It eventually just stuck although I call him the little one most days. I did the same as youself I made a list of names I liked when I knew I was getting a hammie, I wanted to call my hammiw elmo more than anything so I was set on the name when I fell in love with a little cream male syrian, but elmo just didn't go with him and he kept digging under the substrate and popping his head up and then quickly returning to digging and my OH said Bazinga and that was it he was Sheldon and for Sanibel ...well I was toled I wasn't allowed more than one hamster and I fell in love with her and just couldn't leave her in that awful p@h after her sister was taken through the back for "not being right" and I noticed sanibels legs are a bit funny looking so I got upset thinking shed be