Pet Forum / Mammals / Hamsters / August 2004

My hamster "stinky" died , it may have been 2 days now. i smelled
something bad thought he just needed a cage cleaned but i see she was
dead, she was under a year old. There were no signs of her being ill.
she ate normally. she ran her wheel. if you want to see her picture do

I have been noticing that my hamster has some hair gone from it's back. I
see it scratching it sometimes and wonder if it's something that I am doing
wrong. Could it be that I am not changing bedding in it's cage enough? Does
anyone have any ideas? The hamster is about 6 months old.

It seems as soon as someone leaves our horde we come across someone who is
in need of a home.
A trip to New Hampshire recently found us stopping in a mall to grab a bite.
It would of course figure that in this mall, there would be a pet store.  I

Dear Hamster Friends,
I lost my beloved Chewie in the early hours of Saturday morning. Although
she was 2 years and 2 months old it came as such a shock. She had shown no
signs of degeneration and was certainly not off her food and the night

lost one of our hamsters saturday, all happened so quick.
she was fine in the morning. (6am) she always came to the cage just before i
left for work, if i had time i would get her out and play with her for a
bit. if not i would always give her a bit of food through the cage.

When Basil passed away a couple of weeks ago I made the decision to never
again "rescue" an animal from a pet shop.  He was underdeveloped for his age
(at 6 months he weighed 80g as opposed to Bams 160g) though the vet couldnt
find anything wrong other than his bouts of wet tail ...

our hamster is really miserable in this hot weather,his not sleeping in his
house and lies with his face squashed up against the cool plastic of his
cage,is there anything i can do to keep him cool?

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?

I'm BACK from Seattle, Calif., Utah!
& I'd like to Enter Hamtaro for his new feat:
2004 OLYMPICS:
Hamtaro (Florida USA) Gold Medal for :

I am posting this on her behalf as she's never known about usenet:
" I returned yesterday from a ten days trip to my little Dwarf Russian
Campbell's hamster, Nibbles, and I noticed that he has a patch of hair
missing right in the front of his face. I was really concerned, and

Hello...
I think my hamster is sick (I also think I posted this earlier but I
can't find it).
I came home tonight and she was stumbling around as if she were drunk,

I have a couple of hamster-care books here at home that say it's safe to
feed hamsters vegetables like broccoli and cauliflower.
The one thing the book doesn't say, is if they should be cooked first.
Can someone tell me if I should cook things first before giving them to my

The mother of my black bear hamsters has cannibalized her entire
litter, all except for 1 that is still alive (for now).  I'm wondering
if there's anyway I can take the baby out and keep it alive and raise
it myself somehow.  Is there anyway a 1 week old baby can live without

Thanks for taking the time to read this,
Last Saturday My Daughter placed her hamster into a new rotastack cage
.
at about midnight we heard a crash as the hamster escaped and knocking

Which are best?