Meet my latest acquisition...

[PeterB]

(click on links for bigger versions; the pics are a bit uncontrasty, but I didn't want to Photoshop them too much, because I wanted to make sure the color came out accurately...)

... my friend gave her to me. She is a silver sable -- this is obtained by combining the genes which give sable (eeU_ -- that's cream, ee, plus Umbrous, U_) with the silver grey gene (Sg_) ... what the silver grey does is to remove the brown and cream colors that are normally present in the agouti coloring, and on top of a sable, it therefore produces a solid light-to-medium grey that I really like (and it also removes any cream the sable might normally have). For reference, here's what a plain silver grey looks like:



I'm thinking of names... given what happened recently, I'm thinking maybe Tatiana, but am still deciding (I also like "Diana"). If I can socialize her well, I'll definitely use her for breeding...

[tenders]

How nice...a hamster that looks like a mouse.

[PeterB]

tenders, nahhhhh, she doesn't look like a mouse. The pics don't do her justice... she is a very soft light-to-medium gray color. And the key here is that it's a solid color, without much of any hints of cream or brown, which is a problem with the sables... the sables having a tendency to especially get brown with age, even though the standard (here: http://www.midlandhamsterclub.co.uk/hamster/sable.html) is for sables to not have any brown or cream.

[JoeBob]

Pretty color (from a color blind guy), good luck with the socialization process.

[Racer X]

Tatiana has a titanium connotation, and that would fit, in an odd sort of way, wouldn't it?