Ikano is near 1Utama.... well, there is a free feeder bus from Kelana Jaya LRT station.

Hahaha.... wood can stink but if you get one with no wood floor then won't lah... Normally when got a floor in the hide house then the hamster may pee on it.

1.5ft is like the same size as Safari, Playground, Space station.... yah, same size as joonalooidog... that is 1.5ft... well, not really 1.5 lah... if measure, the base is only 1.2 or 1.3ft only.

Hmmm.... the wetness is it around the tail? Also the head and front paws? Yah.... it could be wet tail if that is the case but then that is strange since I do that quite often to my hamsters and they do not get any sort of sickness like that from switching cages.... the hamsters are kept indoors?

4ft Toyogo box? Wah... need that LOL.... How much is it and where you got it?

Why you want 1 male and 1 female? You know that when you buy from the same shop... you got high chance of buying brother and sister? Do you want brother and sister to mate and have babies? Do you care that the babies can be born with problems?

Also, hamsters can breed every 20 to 25 days.... and every litter got an average of 6 babies... are you ready to provide good homes or sell cheaply to petshop for the sake of space and get a quick buck? Petshops do not care, they won't mention to you about what would the outcome be if you buy a male and female.... it is such a risky thing to get from the same shop.

Also, if they breed, are you ready to see dead bodies? Coz sometimes the hamsters can kill and cannibalise their young....

Red ants are attracted to any left over food in the tank or cage.... when it sees that the food is not edible for ants, then they attack the next thing in the cage, the hamster. Red ants do not care the hamster alive or dead, to them, it is another mean of food. Never place cages on floors, best is on tables. If prone to ant attacks, get ant poison.

Have you stepped on red ant nest before? I did.... and they bite.... you know why they bite? Coz I stepped on their nest, kacau them....

I am guessing your female kinda kacau the red ants when they entered the cage.... so when 1 red ant bites, another will bite... then chemical signals will tell all ants to bite. Your other hamster is safe due to maybe never interfere.

Aiyoh, ant nest i give example of my own experience lah . I am trying to say is if you kacau a red ants, sure they all attack. So if the red ants go into the cage to find food, the hamster kacau them, sure lah the red ants attack the hamster.

Another scenario would be your hamster died from unknown reasons so the red ants out of nature attracted to the body and try to eat it.... still... red ants... ai, they are a pest.

Sometimes they simply come. I got some hamster cages that got black ants and I dunno where they come from but black ants are not so fierce and my hamsters ignore them.

What you can do is place some ant poison lah. Or repellant. I use repellant coz safer. I think you can find those in certain hardware stores like Ace...

Hmmm... very strange... whole body bulu wet.... it sounds like a dog put it in its mouth... coz I saw my dog kill rat before, he just hold the rat in his mouth till it die... no blood but bulu all wet LOL..

But very strange.... maybe water bottle leak?

Hahah... no lah, my rats are all fine.... even the lost one, no dead bodies so i think she really found a safe place to run away.... silly rat... Now I got 6 rats after I bought 2 new ones on Monday

No, meat does not make hamsters aggressive. I got a friend that feeds her hamsters raw meat, not one of her hamsters turned aggressive... of course I do not follow that raw meat diet and feed mine with cooked chicken meat.

Meat is a good source of protein.... actually, better than eggs coz hamsters like the taste of chicken better than eggs.

They will never turn aggressive unless you happen to have the taste of chicken on your fingers and they happen to think that your finger is food so they may bite out of instinct. Hamsters never turn aggressive unless someone harmed them before.

Mealworms is not protein.... mealworms contains fat. Protein comes from crickets more.

Normally hamsters don't like egg white.... have you tried giving them scrambled egg? Hamsters are never vegetarians.

No. Syrians do not change fur nor will their fur be greasy like campbells...

If they appear healthy, then maybe nothing much is wrong. Ask your friend to feed more vitamins to them and maybe place them in a warm section of the house and see got improvement or not.

Syrians DO NOT CHANGE FUR!!!! We were mentioning winter whites that change fur.

Really weird like that.... sometimes if too warm, a hamster can drool... maybe the hamsters drooled? Then they groom their fur till wet? Not very sure but it sounds possible.

My goodness, looks like you never read up on hamsters

Hamsters are hoarders... like chipmunks and certain squirrels... they have cheek pouches that helps them to carry food. Hoard means to collect and keep.... and I the name "hamster" means hoarder.

Why they do this? Well, hamsters are nocturnal and being nocturnal, they need to act fast so they do not get caught by predators like owls and snakes. In the night, it is quite dangerous to sit and eat openly. So they will collect food in their mouths quickly and bring it back to their hide holes or dens and keep their food there. "Hamster" in German and Swedish means "to hoard".

Some hamsters do hibernate so hoarding helps them to have a supply of food at hand during winter.

Hamsters live in burrows and they do have a special room to keep their collected food. This is why sometimes you will notice a corner of the cage or tank got lots of food in the woodshavings. My hamsters either put at 1 corner of the tank or keep inside their hide house...

Already explained. Hoarding is a natural act and yah, it is to keep away from predator when they wanna find food to eat but the dropping food part is not correct lah. Cheek pouches are meant to collect food. This is why most rats do not collect food, they do not have cheeck pouches.

Ohhh.... that... I thought you meant that they have cheek pouches to drop food. LOL....

Yes, they will clean out their pouches to hoard away the food. Storing food lah is more clear than say dropping.... coz dropping to me is like buang food.

Hey, that is pretty good. What brand and how much?

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Added on February 15, 2007, 9:45 pmThey change when they feel like it, can happen once a year, can happen few times a year... also the winter coat can last from 1 month to a few months. They will change back to their normal fur after the winter coat.

We have already discuss this. PLease read back the postings... dun say malas malas ah, forums if for you to search a bit since we already discussed it.

This post has been edited by crazymouse_yyh: Feb 15 2007, 09:45 PM

Well, it can be used but do not use it too often... maybe once a week is good enough. Think of it as supplement... use in moderation.

Closed for renovation... so you can visit their other branches in 1Utama, Subang and Great Eastern mall at ampang.

Aiyoh... go buy Breeder's Celect@Choice... you no need change every week... once in 2 weeks... the recycled newspaper absorb smell and urine better than corn cob. Also just Rm19 for 1 bag.... can last you more than 1 month I think.... or you get Careline Wood cat litter... Rm16 1 bag.... can last the same way also. I am using this for 2 gerbils and my hedgehog

the bus is hourly.... so once you at KJ, ask for the bus timing at the counter... then wait loh... the journey is short.... 15 minutes the most.... but hourly bus.

Crabs, go view hermit crab thread. Please also keep with the topic here, do not stray.

Hamsters, they urinate so they smell lah.

I didn't say newspaper... I say cat litter made of recycled newspaper already stated the brand a few postings before... looks like you never read ah... please read properly. You sound really clueless sometimes...


There are many brands... wood shavings and corncob is the smelliest. 2 brands that are expensive but rarely smell would be Woody Pet, Careline Wood Pellet cat litter and Breeder's Celect/Choice. Go Pet Safari to find, they sell. Pets Wonderland do not sell. Pet Safari and Pet Family got.

Well, Chinese hamsters come in only 2 colours... which is the agouti and dominant spot. No other colours... Yups, they got a longer tail and their body is longer, more mousy in features.

Erm... no one breeds them but Reanne... but she already stopped breeding them since no on interested in them. Chinese hamsters, some are tame and some are not. But so far, the ones Reanne has are super tame, they can cling to fingers and wrap themselves around the finger like a little bear... kinda cute since hamsters normally do not cling. This is more of a mouse feature.

Scoop out or pour out. Some people use vaccum cleaner if the aquarium is big and made of glass. When there are urine stains, wash it with water and mild soap.

No, it is not harmful since they do not eat the toilet roll, just chew it...

Nah... glue is not that toxic... most glues are water soluable so if kena makan also it won't harm the body. You only need to be careful with stuff that has those caution lables...

Hamsters are the easiest pet. They died coz you got 2, then fight, body wounded, infections occur... so if you seperate them and with no treatment, their infections can become fatal and lead to death.

If it died after a fight,... then it could be infection or from injury... but after a year? Could be something else... hamsters have a life span of 2 to 3 years.