"Hamtaro" is a Japanese animated TV series first shown in 2000 and then introduced in the U.S. on the Cartoon Network. In the Philippines, it was released on September 12, 2005 on GMA 7. 5th-grader Laura Haruna owns a hamster, and his name is Hamtaro. After moving into a new town, Hamtaro finds that he's in the company of lots of different hamsters, making up a group of hamster friends who go on crazy adventures through the city. Before they save Laura and other humans from nasty predicaments, h