Quote Originally Posted by momcat View Post
Hi PT friends,
My son Mike is a supervisor in general services with the state Department of Environmental Protection. His unit works with other state agencies including Fish & Wildlife. They're currently doing a review of records involving applications to keep exotic pets. During this review, they came across an application from someone to keep "Siberian Hamsters". Nothing was found in the file describing them or providing any information or pictures. One of Mike's workers tried to google it but nothing came up. Curiosity is running pretty high over them.

Have any of you ever heard or know anything about Siberian Hamsters? We had a hamster as a pet when Mike was growing up but we never thought of them as being exotic. Thanks for any insight or information you may be able to share.
Yes, we owned a Siberian Dwarf Hamster, his name was Vadim - this was many, many years ago. They are not uncommon!

Here's a few that have been Pet of the Day:
http://petoftheday.com/archive/2012/December/12.html
http://petoftheday.com/archive/2008/January/15.html
http://petoftheday.com/archive/2003/March/28.html