Imagethief

"online hamster trader"

Best job title ever

It is funny you call it "hamster inflation". In German another word for hoarding is "hamster buying" ;-)

I thought that was when Yanjing beer bumped up to 2.5 kuai last month.

That's inflation REALLY hitting home.

Something similiar just happened Stateside...

The price of roses dobuled in the last few days. Today is the 15th, and price of roses have fallen back to norma.

I've long been suspicious of the Chinese pet industry. I had three bunnies and two guinea pigs, bought from different vendors, that all died on the third day after purchase. I sense a vast small rodent trafficking conspiracy!

I heard there was also a run on rodent pets in Russia recently, as some sort of nod to Chinese New Year.

Link to BBC newstory above.

Having been through (and that's the right word) many hamsters, I can only say that this inflationary spiral is probably for the best.  The damn things only live a year and if you think you are always shutting the door tightly on the cage, guess again.  These are solo creatures who flat our hate you anyway.  My family switched to Guinea Pigs ten years ago and could not be happier.  Dear Lucy is still with us and still squeals with delight when anyone walks into the room.  

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In defense of hamsters:

We have a hamster.  The thing sits on my desk and stares at me while I work.  But I was lucky...I got in on the ground floor, 10 RMB including cage.  That was a year ago.  Of course now I'm looking at a scenario whereby the sharp rise in commodity price is quickly being overshadowed by the awesome reality of a hamster's actuarial table.  In other words...our little Pang Pang needs to live another 10 months for the market replacement cost to normalize to a level equal to the initial purchase price or else we might have to switch to turtles.  

If hamsters, as China Law Blog, pointed out, only live for about a year, they'll all die just in time to make space for the next pet craze, only next year we'll be dealing with considerably larger animals. And I don't even want to think about 2010.