1. Change water
2. Shake sand bath/hamster bathroom and pick out lumps
3. Open food box
4. When hamster appears at door of his house, offer him some food. When he sniffs it, but turns his nose up at it offer him the piece of veg you've been saving for him from dinner and is right by his cage so he can smell it
5. Open lid of house and watch as hamster takes veg to his ensuite and sits there to eat it
6. Wait for hamster to move
7. Pick up handfuls of substrate, put it to your nose and sniff it to see if it smells of wee
8. Regret it
9. Remember that you made a mental note last time not to sniff so hard or put it so close to nose
10. Make mental note not to do that next time
11. Fill nappy sack with smelly/wet substrate
12. Wash hands
13. Return to find hamster sitting in space where en suite was
14. Throw fresh substrate on hamster
15. Watch hamster go to bed
16. Go to put lid on
17. Find hamster has got out of bed and is sitting on edge of house walls
18. Offer hamster food
19. Hamster takes food
20. Hamster wants more food
21. Give hamster an entire day's worth of food
22. Watch hamster add food to pantry/en suite
23. Put house lid back on
24. Put everything away and wash hands again
25. Return to find hamster has investigated the food that magically appeared in his bowl and is now disappearing down the top entrance of his house, giving you a good view of his balls

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