Pet Forum / Mammals / Hamsters / September 2003

Maxine and I wish you would stay with this group.  I have gained most of my
Hammie-Knowledge from both you and Christine (I have gotten great advice
from lots of others, too, however).  Thanks, you two!  I think you are a
very passionate person....you come off very strong, at times. ...

We got our first Teddy Bear Hamster last week. We are handling him to
try and tame him. He doesn't bite, but he doesn't stay still. He is
constantly trying to get away. What kind of behavior can we expect
from a tame Hamster and what kinds of things should we be doing to try

sorry i've been away for so long! and to come back with a post about this!
anyway, my friend alerted me to this website because of the hamster info. it
saddened me to know this young gentleman, err, man, was awarded a prize for
cruelty to animals:

I have a dwarf hamster about 1.5 years old. It's a male. In the last
month or so his eyes have become glazed over like cataract or
something. He does respons to light and dark but doesn't seen to be
able to see much else. I'm wondering if it's ok to let him be like

We are first-time hamster owners.  We purchased Hammy, a male Syrian
hamster, 2 and 1/2 months ago.  We believe Hammy is now 4 months old.
We attached an outhouse to his Critter Trail Two cage a month ago.  We
also put potty litter in his outhouse.  To our delight, Hammy got the

Does anyone know a US mail-order or Washington DC-area store that carries
the Ferrplast (Duna or Mini-Duna) cage? No luck on Google.
We just purchased one in Reston, only to find out that the polypropylene
base was badly cracked. I'm going to try Loctite Plastix adhesive, but I'm

Well I had great success with seperating the babies. The boy went with the
other 2 boys and Odd Ball and the girl, went in with Snow White. Looks kind
of neat with a black, albino and grey in the same cage with each other. I
did have to "alter" a cage, but it turned out really ...

OK, I admit it that I am a computer geek, but...
I am putting together a shaft encoder for my hamsters wheel, but I need to
know what type of paper glue is OK for hamsters...
I am going to glue the paper on the back of the wheel so it is against the