Pet Forum / Mammals / Hamsters / May 2004

I finally got some picture of my new Rob hamster pups, if you want to see
them then go to this link:
http://www.debs81.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl?board=hamgal;action=
display;num=1084554077
Deborah

I just wanted to let everyone know that my little Spunky passed away today.
A few days after I had stopped her meds because I thought she was fine,
she got sick again. I tried everything I could and I was giving her the
baytril every day for about a week, and I had been giving her ...

We all (well I do) look to this news group for advice on our hammies so I
jus thought I'd share my story of Leo.
A few weeks ago he crawled out of bed covered in blood. He'd been to the
vets a week before (for a cold and clicking) and fallen off the table twice

I was just given a pet hermit crab, who my niece bought from a pet store
Wednesday. They had "just" arrived. He's been at her home in his own new cage.
He's very active & healthy.
Do any of you have a Hermit Crab?

Since some time, our hamster tends to empty whatever he has stashed in his
cheeks right on the spot. So if we take him out of his cage and put him on
the couch, he'll go to a corner and dump everything he has right there. Any
idea why they do this?

OK, after an antibioic treatment, the wet tail is gone - but now I have
three new concerns.
1) The hams right eye seems a tiny bit stuck.  After the ham wakes up,
it won't open the right eye as quickly as the left, but after a while

I just got the wodent wheel i sent off for and i love it already. It
says that it is the olny wheel recommended by the aspca and that 2
percent of sales go to the aspca humane program. I got the small one
but it is plenty large enough for my hammy and it fits my 20 gallon

HELP! We're overrun with hamsters (slight exaggeration). After having 2
Syrian hamsters (at different times) we decided on having 2 dwarf
Roborovskis. We chose 2 males from the shop only to find, a couple of months
later, that one of the boys is a girl. We now have a mixed pair of ...

Test your hamster!  The BBC are doing a programme on animal intelligence:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/animals/pets/testyourpet/index_cookies.shtml
You can take part by doing the above tests (all suitable for small animals)
Lorna

Happy Hamster Day!
Our Hamsters are one of the smallest yet wisest creatures on earth.
They have no bad vices.
They don't overeat, they get just the right amount of sleep.

My hamster Nita seems to have ripped a nail on one of her arms.  It has
ripped, but is not totally gone, it's still hanging on.  Should I just
leave it like so, or try and do something about it?
Riss

For those of you with a few spare minutes, you might enjoy a few pictures of
our little Dzjenghis: http://www.catalysis.nl/~rob/photos/album01
I hope to add a few more next week or so.
Cheers,

Tonight we lost our little buddy Scooter.   =(
He was the boy of the first pair of dwarf hams we brought home with us, the
other was his mate, Snowball, who passed some time back.  Father to 31
children, most of whom he outlived with the exception of Psycho and Twixxy

It's time for me to buy a new bag of food.
We ran out - tonight.
& I was hoping to hear what food mix is most liked?
We've used Fiesta before, buy he won't touch those long cylindrical green

Has a hammie ever been used as a wet nurse for any other animals? I would
love to find out if this is possible as I may have found some baby chip
monks without a mother and if there was a mommy hammie with a brood would it
be possible to add one or two to her family?