Pet Forum / Mammals / Hamsters / August 2004

To a better place, where there are always yogurt drops to be had, and no
hands to grab him.  He was truly the most frightened hamster I've ever had,
but he was still much loved.  He almost made 2 years.   He was January's
hamster in this year's A.P.H. calendar.

hello i was  hoping that someone would be able to tell me which are the
safest toys for a hamster,theres so many in petshops and im never sure how
suitable they are,are loo rolls safe for them?as our hamster is slightly
braindamaged we have to be a bit careful what we give him as he ...

Greetings - We have an approximately 2+ year old Teddy bear ham, and she's
not very active any more.  Doesn't chew on the cage or use her wheel.
Hasn't lost her hair - just her energy.  We haven't changed her feed, but
it's been pretty hot her in the Pacific NW.  I know they're ...

If your hamster were to enter the Hamster Olympics, in which area
would he or she "bring home the gold"?  Would it be Night-sprinting?
Cage-gnawing?  Nut-cracking?  Another category?
    Madeline

I think I do!!!
Stay-Puft is the cutest little Albino dwarf that I've ever seen but she goes
for BLOOD!!! She will leap, hang off & BITE!!!
She will box at you if you are anywhere NEAR her cage!!!!

Anyone here from VA? I love my pet hamster!! Hes a banded shorthaired
syrian.

My hammys eye looks irratated and it is apparently watering for the
area arround the eye is wet and crusty. and he squits with that eye.
it has me worried. but otherwise she acts healthy and normal, i cannot
afford a vet. she is a very tame dwarf. any advice? will it be save to

Hi I have managed to get some pictures of my Chinese colonies up on webshots
I hope they work. I have 2 colonies, and in amongst them is a Black Eyed
White rare little girl that only appears once in a blue moon. Hope it works,
and you get to see them. The pictures aren't brilliant ...

Could you guys please help me?
I've been looking at the archive of this newsgroup and on the web to
try to find the answer to my question, but I seem to be getting
conflicting answers.

I know that this is slightly off topic ...
... but I have recently spotted some European hamsters
(cricetus cricetus) in my home town.
They are said to be an endangered species, but seemed to be quite

     http://www.otherpower.com/hamster.html

I have a female dwarf hamster who just loves to get picked up but one day
when I picked her up she was bleeding in the genital area uncontrollably and
it kept bleeding for about 6 hours. She seemed okay afterwards. is this
something to worry about or is it just a hamster "period"?

Dear Hamster Friends,
It's with a broken heart that I have to announce that Tineke passed away
today, 8 August.
Since yesterday she once again was not her usual self again. She

Our hamster cheeky died yesterday. I went to feed him but he was just
dead in the little red house thing where he sleeps. It was distressing
because he used to be so active, we would let him run all over for a
few hours each day, but in his last week he became sort of bloated

Hi People.
I'm afraid that Eiko seems to have enetered what may be her final few days or
possibly weeks. She's slowed down a lot as of late, not once this week have I
heard her running in her wheel. She's becoming rather skinny and having trouble