The Hamster Wheel – Not Just For Hamsters
Author: Hamster ClubSource: www.hamster-club.com
We take a look at the
bizarre but brilliant trend that’s sweeping the world: hamster wheels for
humans!
Have you ever peered inside a
hamster cage, looked at a hamster running around in a wheel and thought to
yourself “Actually, that looks kinda fun”?
If the answer to that
question is “Yes”, you most certainly wouldn’t be the first person to have
enjoyed the prospect of running around in a hamster wheel of your own. People
from a huge variety of walks of life have tested their mettle in human hamster
wheels in recent years – here are just a few selected examples:
The art of hamster wheels
Hamster wheels have long
since represented a symbol of futility, cyclicality and even animal ignorance
to the artistically (pretentiously) minded, so it’s unsurprising that they’ve
found their way into a great many artworks over the years. New York artist Alex
Schweder recently took it upon himself to live inside a 25-foot wood and steel
hamster wheel for ten days, in order to ‘highlight our independence’.
The ultimate workout
Ever since hamster wheels
first attained widespread popularity in the 1940s, they have offered hamsters
and other rodents the means to exercise properly, regardless of the size of
their cage. Running in a wheel is essentially the ultimate hamster workout, and
running wheels are just as well suited to the fitness-boosting needs of
adventurous humans too! A treadmill operates on a basically identical principle
to a hamster wheel anyway, so if you want to keep fit at home, why not make an
outlandish statement with a human wheel!?
by Albert Saliba