Weird Things My Hamster Does | Introducing Buddha

So I was going to use this post to introduce my new little mate, Buddha the Syrian hamster but since the cheeky little imp wouldn't stay still long enough to photograph him properly, the post has sort of morphed into some little snaps of some of the weird things Buddha likes to do on a daily basis. I'm not sure if some of this behaviour is particularly normal, I personally think he's the weirdest hamster out there, but it amuses me all the same and I love him to bits.

Some funny little habits include:

1. Falling asleep anywhere and everywhere at any time. He's fallen asleep hanging from the side of his cage before, he's fallen asleep in his ball and a lot of the time he either snuggles up in his wheel and falls asleep or will be running full speed and will just drop and be sleeping.

2. When he wakes up he always does a massive yawn. I've had a few hamsters and have never really seen any of them do this. Me and my flatmate can't decide whether it's cute or a bit gross (think big teeth and strange curly tongue) but I think it's probably a bit of both.

3. He likes to "monkey-bar" from the top of his cage and swing around a little bit when he's bored.

5. He always does this thing where he'll wiggle down the back of my bed and always gets himself stuck and starts squeaking and I have to rescue him and despite this always happening he still keeps doing it.. hmm..