Pet Forum / Mammals / Hamsters / January 2004

I have a hamster wheel with a built-in odometer that I got a few years
ago.  The wheel itself is yellow and has a solid floor, and the base
is bright pink.  There are two magnets in the wheel, and whenever one
passes the base the counter increments by one foot.  The batteries

I have some design ideas for making simple little cardboard houses, to toss as
they get too dirty or chewed.  I need something to attach parts together.  I
won't use staples, or paper clips, of course. Tape also sounds like a bad idea.
Thread?

My hamster, Elanor, chews her cage bars all night. Is she trying to
shorten her teeth, or is she trying to escape?

Would you recommend these cages?  Are they a pain to clean?
I was looking at CritterTrail2 cage, but also the CritterTrail X model with the
exercise wheel seperate on top.
Any opinions on one being better than the other?

My wife and myself got a new male Syrian Hamster about a month ago.
When he arrived, we left him alone for a few days. After that we
started giving him some food from our hands and he became used to us.
Thing were going very good. Soon after he was happy to go out of his

Texas, now known as Buttercup went to her forever home yesterday!! She was one
out of a litter of 4 sable banded Syrians.  The mom was dumped (along with her
mom and siblings) in a shelter because the person just got tired of them and
had too many... DUH!! what do you think is going ...

here are some hammy pics the white is my dwarf named speedy, the other
is a regular hammy, she is nameless but i call her sweetie. i love
them very much
heidihttp://photo.walmart.com/photo/album/album.asp?type=1&album=2874142

I'm unclear about what is to be avoided, and what is to be encouraged with
chewing, so as to keep their teeth from growing too long.
Wood? Plastic? Cardboard?
I want to make shelters, hiding places, ramps to climb, shelves.

ok using my mother in law's name.we got 5 new babies.well my daughter's
hamster ashley had them.to my surprise we bought her pregnant  our of
the pet store.not even been long with us.got her sister aslo in cage i
there too.so it is 7 now.kris

Well Hershey is in the process of giving birth. She's had three so far. I
heard squeaks coming from the cage and knew it wasn't her, it sounded too
'small' so I turned on the light and there they were. She was bred on the
1st of January. It's only the 16th..... Does this seem a ...

hi all, hope someone can help...i have a female dwarf who is about 4 months old
and i read female dwarfs liek to be in pairs so was wondering if she could get
along with a younger new dwarf female??

If anybody here uses chat clients, like MSN messenger, ect then maybe we can
all start chatting there?

This is my best photo so far. I can't blame the camera or the hamster for
the fact that all the other pictures seem to be of an empty cage or just a
tail! I think Coco doesn't like hanging about while I mess about.
Anyway this link should work

OK, I finally completed most of the final product and I must say it came out
way better than I has ever hoped. The full lenght Hammie movie is around 34
minutes long and would not fit on any one of my servers. I have seven
allowing 25 megs each so I uploaded part one to one server ...

It's been a while since I've posted here, but a problem may be developing
with my hamster and was wondering what advice anyone might have.
Background:
Buster is our blackbear hamster.  He turned 2 years old as of early Dec.