Pet Forum / Mammals / Hamsters / July 2003

I haven't been online in a while, I've been so busy!  I have come
across a few questions... T'pol tried to carry bedding up into one of
her travel tubes and then she was stuck behind it, she couldn't get to
her food or water, I am not even sure she could breathe well.  Why would

Not hamsters but pix are up at
http://community.webshots.com/user/postmako
My wife accidentally put some cardboard over the aquarium and they
died from suffocation.

Do you think Syrians are too large for the Narrow Tunnels available?
What's YOUR experience?
Jody

i would like to apologize .. i know i dont know everything about
hamsters .. and i honestly didnt intend for them to mate. when i got
them, from some ran down pet store i was told they wasnt sexually mature
so i thought it didnt matter if they were together ... i was wrong ...

I don't know if anyone here watches the show however, last night I saw her
giving a reading to a pet hammie!
The owners were two men and they just loved their hammie.  It was a really
adorable teddy bear hammie that looks similar to Jodylogic's Hamtaro only

Does anyone by chance know if it is possible to have an overdose of Dri Tail
medicine - even if given properly?  Thanks in advance!

I just picked up Joule (which of course I do about 1,784 times per
day) and I felt a lumpy spot on her underside. I turned her over
and... what the heck?!
Joule has two enormous purple lumps on her tummy, close to her arms

I would read your postl IFyou didn't send it as a download.
Too much spam.

Is it ok to feed my ham, Guinea pig yogurt drops?  I was given some by a
friend, since her rabbit didn't like them.

How long after bringing a hamster home from the pet store should you wait
til you hold your new furry friend?  We had one about a week ago, and we
handled him from the get-go.  He soon had "wet-tail" and died.  We now have
a new hamster, and we have not touched her yet.  It has been ...

When we went to the pet store to pick out Bert last Thursday, my daughter
took a liking to a beautiful gray/black dwarf boy. We thought about him for
a few days and ran to the store just as it was closing on Sunday. He was
still there. Of course, he's not anymore! We named him Cole ...

I will have some 3 month  and 3 week old to give away to a good home. If
interested,
let me know and I can send you pics as well.I live in the Ashland, WI area.
These are Syrian,

Hi! I'm new on here. But i'd like to ask a question. Well my friend's
hamster has this round thing growing on her chest and she is losing a lot of
hair. Do you know whats wrong?

Well, the other shoe has dropped. There are now a total of at least 9 babies,
possibly 10. Dolly and Spaz, the two other females have now added their babies,
Dolly had 3, Spaz had at least 2, possibly 3. (Spaz is owned by the woman who
rescued the 4-some from the kids, so is not on ...

After the recent and unfortunate demise of "punk", I would like to get a new
inhabitant of his cage.
However I would like any ideas that would improve the new guys chances, I
have read all sorts of things, but am having difficulties making sense of