[Ashley V]

We went all over the internet looking for names for Chip and for some reason, Chip just became his name. What was funny was a couple months ago I was looking through a bunch of really old notebooks of mine that I'd been hanging onto for whatever reason and I found a list of male and female names for the two hamsters that I brought home and Chip was on the male list.

Smokey came to us with his name. The poor thing had been through soooo much with switching homes 5 times and had already had his name changed once, that I didn't want to change something else on him again. It's not particularly my favorite name, but it works for him. His original name from his first owners was Coby.