Owh you're from Melaka
I'm sure there are pet stores that sell good supplies there.

Edit: Nova by all means take out the bar! >< The hamster's leg could get caught within the bars and injure itself. It's best to remove all bars if possible (except for the cage itself, unless you can change to storage boxes as cages)

Ah apple wook okay.
The metal bar is because of the metal stand that holds up the running wheels. I've temporarily taken that one out, will replace with a plastic one soon.

This post has been edited by jeremysoon93: Jun 22 2013, 08:03 PM

There's a wooden bridge for you to cross the river. The wood planks are arranged one meter apart. Don't look down and walk straight across. Fun?

Now imagine your entire house flooring with wood planks arranged like that.

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Oh no >< I'm so sorry for your lost.
He died of old age, happily. You should feel accomplished to give him a happy life.
Now go plant a seed on his ground, make it bloom into something nice.

Nah they won't eat it.
Either their just storing in their mouth for fun or they're bringing it into their hiding place.

I have had approximately 5 batches of babies born in my house over these past 6 years.
If you wanna breed, go ahead. The rewards are really adorable.

1. Cost - Time, money, storage, effort. I think this one's pretty manageable la shouldn't be much of a problem. But you do need to watch out for their environments. Some batches died do to my carelessness, like spinning wheel kept hitting the bottle till there was no water. Other than that, this one's manageable.

2. Genetic defects - I don't think this is that common is it? None of my babies were defect. Even my winter gold (what you guys call the hybrid) hamsters, I bred them till the 3rd generation. Just that the last one standing after almost 2 years died of cancer. I think I can blame it on the bedding I used.

3. Emotion-wise - Well what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Everytime my hamster dies it becomes easier to handle my emotions. At least I know I've given them the best life I could. Mom eating their babies? Aiya it's nature la, that's how it runs. If the babies are weak, or the mother's a bad one (I had one like that which ate all her babies), then there's nothing you can do right?

In human life you can't control the birth of defect children. You can't control accidents that take lives. You can't control when and how the uncertainty of money hits you.
As long as you know what you're doing and you're dedicated, by all means go for it.
If things go wrong, well that's how life is, right?

(I've had quite a rough month emotionally, have became more of a realist now. Guess it does affect me how I see things.)

That, am not too sure. Should be normal, he looks small, that "part" would be expanding over the weeks.

2 months still a toddler haha.
Size is fine, just don't feed it until become fatty.

I give my girl the Classic food from Living World, they sell in Pets Wonderland, she eats everything.
I read before that you can refuse to refill the food bowl until they eat everything, but I don't think I'll recommend that :/
Other than that, you can try different brands of hamster food to see whether he eats everything or not.

One thing I notice about my girl is, when her food bowl is near the toilet, she WILL pee in the bowl also.
So keep food bowls away from the toilet yeah.

If you see them stuffing the bedding into their mouths, they most probably aren't eating it, they're just storing in their mouth to be brought to their little hiding place. My girl does that.

Have you tried them?
They do look good and natural, but I'm just afraid some of those grass are very sharp. :/

OH sorry my bad haha.
Right I use those now as my girl's toilet bedding. It's much better than the wood shavings, but yes it does get noisy. It's also easier to maintain as you can scoop the good ones out, and the powdery ones you can throw away.
One thing I don't like about that is that when I see my hamster walking on those, it feels uncomfortable. Imagine yourself walking on those big nice pebble stones people put on the floor for decoration, somewhat similar situation.

I highly recommend the paper-based bedding with good bacteria that is sold in the pet store in Ikano/Bangsar/Sunway Pyramid. PLC I think. I even forgot the bedding name, but it's very good.

I'm sorry to hear that
But wow 4 years is really very long!

Anyways, guys I just found out my hamster has this small growth on her ear.
What could it be? Could it be an ear wart or something?


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Oh ok so it's safe to let her be?
I'll be going back to Kedah on 9th and coming back maybe on 12th.

I just cleaned her cage.
Thanks anyways, will continue to monitor her then.

Oh one thing I would highly recommend is those storage bins from Jusco/Carrefour.
I switch from wired cage, to plastic tanks, to storage bin.

Firstly, storage bins is easier to move around if there's wheels below. The material is also not as hard and fragile as the plastic fish tanks. I personally feel it's somewhat much lighter to carry storage bins. Plus, I think you can find storage bins that are much bigger than the plastic ones (the biggest so far is 2ft x 1ft? I'm selling mine though, there's pics there). It's also much easier to clean because now I fill it up with hot water from the toilet, then drag it all the way to the balcony then only start washing after a while.

One let down is that it is semi-transparent, but that hasn't affected me when I wanna see my girl playing in there. Not much issues I'd say. Ventilation, my room is quite small so the ceiling fan is practically on top of the cage.

Storage bins may cost more, but it's definitely worth saving all the trouble and pain later. I'll take a photo of my girl's cage if you want to see.

THAT. Is so scary. D:
How did you manage to get your Shih Tzu to not eat your hammy, or do anything crazy? D: D: D:

Oh? Your bin's wheel broke before?
If the wheel break then take out all 4 la haha.

Ah, so nice to have an obedient dog. I can't have any pets bigger than hamsters, condo rules.

Speaking of which, just wanna ask you guys, what is the most memorable event you had with your hamsters?
It can be a happy, sad, or a scary one.

As for myself, I remember my hamster escaped from the cage, it was at the balcony, and it fell into the drain. ><
Quite a deep one. Luckily she just stood around there, didn't go further down the pipes.
It was really scary, it was night time, raining VERY heavily with thunder.
After 30 mins, I decided to put my arm in it and the moment I got hold of her paws, I carefully pull her up as fast as I could.
Because I managed to save her, later in the years she had 9 beautiful babies. :')

I blogged about it 4 years ago here (http://thatluxurylife.blogspot.com/2009/12/life-changing-moment.html)
(Excuse the language used and the stuffs I used to say there, that was me waaaaaay back then haha.)

What are your stories?
Would love to hear them.

What??? Babies everywhere in the house with a Shih Tzu and they're found alive? Hahaha that's interesting.
My condo also has an elderly lady with a Shih Tzu, she carries it out using the baby pram to avoid suspicion haha.

Hey be careful to check your package first before it's too late. My bedding package once was very very very dusty (literally like dust) and there was pieces of rubber bits in it. It was quite disappointing that the store said they can't do anything about it since the entire batch is like that.

Anyways, I'm feeding my girl Living World's food from Pets Wonderland. My girl loves it.