Wait there's wild hamsters? Oh yes – and they're fuzzy, feisty, and just as cute and podgy as …
When I was a child in the 1930os," recalls 86-year-old farmer Marcel Riegel, "hamsters were incredibly easy to catch. There were so many that they ate bare patches into our alfalfa and wheat field." "Before the land consolidations of the 197oS," Riegel continues, "we had hamsters, hares, partridges, orchards and vineyards in the Alsace. They've…