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Hamster Help Please!

Well, we're going out shopping for pet stuff (takes a whole day with all my animals) so will have a look around and see what sort of cages i can get for Es on my limited budget! :lol: Failing that she'll just have to be loose in the house - she comes to me when i call her anyway :lol: She's so cute! :D

Definately way too intelligent though.. i always thought hamsters were stupid :blink: The russian dwarf has a fairly small cage and she's fine in it. I'll give her esmarelda's cage if es gets a new one though :D
 
How about a glass/plastic tank?? No bars to chew & easy to clean. It's what most breeders use.
 
littleimp said:
How about a glass/plastic tank?? No bars to chew & easy to clean. It's what most breeders use.
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Urine gets trapped in the silicone and I've never been able to clean a glass tank properly :/

The links and ideas betta_fish gave were much better and along the lines I was thinking of.
 
Neither of the links would work for me :/

But.. I went to pets at home today to see what they had in the way of plastic cages and i had a wonderful choice of a 'space command' or 'Disney princess' cage :lol: So, i think i'll keep looking. Have put Es and Satan in our spare bedroom so i dont have to hear the noise!! I've had them both out in their balls for an hour or so in all today so hopefully they'll be a bit less bored :rolleyes:
 
Satan :rofl:
 
Sometimes the links take few mins to load.

Here i will just post the pics.

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http://www.petwebsite.com/article_read.asp...n%20Type%20Cage

But for the second one you need to open the link. Its sometimes slow like I said before just wait a few mins.
 
We've had quite a few hamsters over the years and I think everything you describe is NORMAL behavior. Hamsters are nocturnal animals and its normal for them to constantly look for a way to escape, that's why they escape so often! :D


Sounds to me like she has the perfect home, but what she's doing doesn't mean she's not happy.
 
Deanna Cronan said:
We've had quite a few hamsters over the years and I think everything you describe is NORMAL behavior. Hamsters are nocturnal animals and its normal for them to constantly look for a way to escape, that's why they escape so often! :D


Sounds to me like she has the perfect home, but what she's doing doesn't mean she's not happy.
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I disagree. Biting the cage bars to try and get out is normal. But constantly doing it in such a manic rage that her mouth is bleeding and the hair on her nose has worn way: is really not normal or makes her happy :/
 
Hows my favourite little hamster doing.
 
Ooh, sorry, forgot about this thread!!

Thanks for posting the pics up - Im worried Esmarelda might chew her way out of one of those plastic things though -_- She does chew a lot... :rolleyes:

But.. She does seem to have improved!! Bot hamsters have been moved into the empty spare room and they seem to be doing better in there. I stick them in there in their balls about 3 times a day, for about 30-45 mins each time and they love that. Esmarelda also comes out with us for half an hour or so in the evenings. She seems to be doing better, she has no more cuts on her mouth, and i've not heard her chewing the bars.. Maybe its cos there's nothing going on in that room? In my room theres fish tanks, tv, cd player and computer all making noise! Could that have been causing it?! Or the fact that im in my room a lot? I spend a lot of time doing uni work in my room so cant spend any time with Es, but i was in the room with her - That was the time when i noticed her chewing the most...
 
Bless them, probably with you being in the room trying to get your attention by chewing on the bars to let her out.
 
I have two hamsters - one of which chews the bars like its going completely mad and one which chews them but nowhere near as much . They both have the same size of cage with the same things in them so a lot of it is just down to personality I guess. The one that chews the bars like crazy we can hear rattling the whole cage even from upstairs with all the doors shut but it's bearable.
 
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Someone on another forum i asked about this on said that its cos she wants to come back out of the cage - I wouldn't have thought hamsters were that intelligent?! And i cant have her out all the time :blink:

I beg to differ!!! :p I had a hamster called Minstral, who had a huge rotastack (Burrow basement, large play section, third normal sized section, wheel, feeding are, bed, 2 sets of tunel packs), and she was extremely intelligent. She worked out that to escape she needed to get the lid off the burrowbasement compartment. She eventually worked out that she was not going to be able to force the lid off easily, and instead worked on two area where two of the three clips holding the lid on, and repeatedly lifted her self up by holding onto the small barsint here to keep nudging the top. This was actually wearing the plastic away, which over time wore away the plastic, making the holes the clips slide through bigger, and evenually when she lifted her self up a final time, whe diaplaced the lid, and it ended up half in and half off the burrow basement.

This must have taken her months and months to do, but she managed it

I think hamsters are very clever little things!
 
there's no way to stop it! every hamster i had chewed the bars, and take my word from it nothing stops them! not even tobasco suace on the bars! in the end i just got used to the noise
 
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