I know in subang SS14 there got a vet.. beside the bakuteh area..
not really sure how much it will cost.. why not asking the price 1st before letting the doctor cure your pet? But im sure it will be less than RM50..

Anyway, wish ur hamster get well soon 

Obviously the vet you visited is inexperience. I strongly recommend you to visit Animal Hospital in Jalan Genting Klang. Few months ago i brought my hamster there to do a minor surgery. Frankly speaking the vets there are very experienced. They really know how to hold a hamster gently. Furthermore the price there is reasonable.

I'm not defending this vet here, but I'm just giving some clarifications based on my own experience. For such animals, whether they bite or not is actually quite a common question for the vet to ask. And for the not wearing of gloves to protect against bites, you'll need to be wearing quite a thick glove, and wearing such a thick glove makes it difficult for the vet to actually feel the animal. And asking the owner to hold the animal is also quite common, as such animals do not like being to have themselves held in such a manner and will often struggle. Thus it'll be better for somebody who's familiar with the animal to be the one holding them.

Anyways, onto the growth. It may be cancer, but it may just be a non cancerous growth. A non cancerous growth will be better news, but it'll still cause problems in the long run as it'll just get bigger and bigger. There's also a possibility for it to get infected too.

I've just had a hamster come out of surgery yesterday for such a lump on the right cheek, that also got infected.

The surgical procedure itself is quite simple, and the GA given is via gas. Basically getting the hamster to breath in the gas till they get knocked out, then an incision is made where the lump is and the lump taken out.

Whether the hamster will survive or not depends very much on the hamster. For mine, the hamster was very obviously losing weight and was having problems eating solid food, but I fed it the nutri smoothie mix (which is a good thing too that she likes to eat). But she's still rather active. If your hamster is acting weak, then chances r that it may not survive. The good news about mine is that the moment we brought her home and put her back into the tank, the first thing she did was to rush towards the bowl of smoothie. Eating is a good sign.

All in all, we've had 6 visits to the vet:
1) diagnose the lump. not sure what it is as yet. poked a needle into it to draw blood to see. found out there's infection. got given 2 antibiotic jabs
2) 2 more antibiotic jabs the next day
3) 2 more antibiotic jabs the next day. given oral antibiotics to feed to her, 1 drop per day
4) one week later, the infection is starting to mature and there's puss. poked a needle into the lump again, and try to squeeze out puss. continue with the daily oral antibiotics. lump size decreased slightly
5) one week later, lump size increasing again. determined that the lump is not just infection, but could be a growth. here's the decision time, on whether to do surgery or not
6) day after, surgery done, brought hamster back home. put her back into her tank after fully disinfecting the tank. feeding nutri smoothie mix as she's still not keen on solid food. continue with oral antibiotics.

need to bring back to the vet 2 days later for examination again.

edit: cost of surgery is RM100, at the Small Animals Vet over in Bandar Puteri Puchong (next to Mailboxes)

Well, mine is a little different, they would be saying its just a hamster, go see doc can buy another xx hamster. Well, sometimes I would like to ask, then why you bring your kids to clinic, just send to grave la, dig hole dump. Then go make another baby! Its different, all of us pet lovers understand one thing, its life and its our love! Cannot be replaced by anything else. I had a fav hammy passed away long time ago, and now I love my hammies as much as it, but the feel is not the same.

Well, currently its about 24 hours after bringing her back. The surgery was done yesterday in the morning. Her fur looks better already. Before this, it was matted and spiky, with obvious signs of fur thinning and loss. This morning, the fur's back to the smooth condition once again, although still thin in some areas.

Examined her closely again, and some parts of the lump is still there. This is to be expected in a way I guess, but at least the major part of it is already gone. The vet did also say that a second surgery may be needed for the remainder, but that's to be decided much later after she has recovered from the first. If the small leftover lump doesn't grow anymore, then its then best to just leave it as it is.

The tank or cage where you put the hamster in also needs to be changed slightly post operation. We removed everything from the cage, and instead of putting in the wood shavings, we just lined the bottom of the tank with paper towels, to be changed daily. Only thing in the tank now are the food bowl, a little plate with the smoothie mix, and a little container that she likes to hide in (this little container has to be disinfected on a daily basis too). In other words, keep the tank as simple as possible, so its easy to clean up on a daily basis, as its very important to prevent any infection of the surgery wound.

Examine the surgery wound regularly too, and if its bleeding, try to clean up using cotton balls soaked in warm water (boil the water, then wait for it to cool down).

She's a winter white (pearl). Currently well enough to start running around the tank away from me when I have to take her out to feed her the antibiotics. Appetite seems to be alright, although still prefer the smoothie mix rather than solid food that she still picks at.

Let me know how your hamster is doing, and/or if she needs to go for surgery or not. I can pass u the contact of the vet that we went to over in Bandar Puteri Puchong.

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My Button finally decided to give up her life yesterday
She passed away quietly when i came back from work
Will post some pic tonight, meanwhile here's some vid of her when she is still young



She is 2.3 years old when she passed away 

yeah i think it is normal.. I saw b4, i tink is your hamster masterbating.. hahaha 

It happen to my hamster also because last time i saw my hammy he was licking his private part and it become very big and reddish color until the hardened semen come out.. 

hi there...this is my golden hamster...Ichigo....he always look kinda distorted when he sleep.....
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and my Kiki d roborovski~!.....love sand bathing so much~~^-^
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