Pet Forum / Mammals / Hamsters / January 2007

Yesterday I bought home 3 lovely male dwarf hamsters! I have a
platinum-blue, platinum-normal and normal; so they are very easy to
tell apart, and have very interesting coats!
They seem to have settled in already, playing on their wheel and

The newbie I talked about 2 weeks ago is fine...he's letting me bond w/ him
slowly.  Doesn't like to be held yet, but does like to be petted :)
He's being a bit stubborn about providing me w/ his name....that too shall
come eventually, I'm sure.

Hi all. I was wondering if I could get my hamster off of toilet paper.
When adopted him from someone about 10 days ago he was making his nest
in the wheel of his CritterTrail X with wood shavings. I read that
hamsters like toilet paper, so after a couple of days I fed a few

I got two dwarves of about the same color about 2 weeks back, and I've
been trying to sex them for like a week now. I've found this task to be
damned near impossible, I've been to every site on the net that has a
page on dwarf sexing, and the bottoms in the pictures look almost the

I got a hamster a few months ago and she is just the coolest little
thing. I have been going through lots of equipment in order to find best
stuff for this little thing, but I do have a few questions for you more
experienced hamster owners.

Thinking of breeding my dalmation female with my girlfriend's daughter's
black bear male.  Any tips?

My hamster is over 2 yrs old. Recently his health has diminished
rapidly. He is not eating almost anything or drinking water; he moves
very slowly and sleeps almost all day. He is quite cold all the time.
Is he suffering? Should I take him to the vet to euthanize or he will

Hi to all,
Last weekend I had bought a new male Syrian hamster...unfortunately, it
didn't fare so well and has passed on. It had never even told me its name.
I have replaced him with another male Syrian hamster from the same pet shop

I just got my hamster(Pepy)and I want to train him to sit
on my shoulder.Please help me out.I have looked all over
the internet for help on this!
   DKirk

Greetings;
I tried posting this privately but it bounced.  Here's what I wanted to
send.  I hope nobody's upset at me for this.
Hello Brian and Judy;

Got two large 32oz tubs of Chinchilla Dust Bath as a Christmas present. The
name of the product is L/M Animal farms Inc, Ohio, USA and the ingredient
says Fuller's Earth.
There is no mention about it being hamster safe though. Anyone ever used

I don't know if you've tried them, but I'm a big fan of the Super Pet
Silent Spinner wheels. The wheel is very quiet and my hamsters love it.
Well ... it WAS very quiet. I've owned one wheel for 2 months or so,
and it's become very loud. I've tried vegetable oil on the axel, soap

Our Ground Squirrel, Cracker, passed away suddedly this past Tuesday.
He was one month shy of four years old.
He died in his sleep.
Rest In Peace, Cracker

Tonight when Judy got home from work, we came in and found our dear sweet
little Mandy had left us.
She had come home with me from my old job when her mom had a litter in our
store.  Of the 6 born, she was the one I picked to take home.

Hi Group,
Signman and Johannes here.....
a 6-8 week old male short-haired Syrian hamster has joined our home
yesterday (1/6/07)....he's mostly light brown and has some white scattered