canot!! only one in a cage

Foo, roughly almost 5 inches like that.

Petshops staff just sell stuff, the owners never visit forums or do research. So you wanna trust them? They will even tell you can put anything together, as long make you happy and make you buy.

Syrians are solitary. Of course when they are below 4 months old they don't really care if got cage mates but when they are older, they feel uneasy, insecure and threaten if housed with other Syrians.

Also, Syrians sleep during the day, you go petshop all also drowsy with sleep lah, they only fight at night, when the shop is closed and you can't see.

Petshops house everything together coz lack of space. If they got 30 syrians, then need 30 cages, they won't have the space or the money to actually open 30 cages just for selling 30 hamsters. So for them, more logical to house everything in 1 or 2 cages.

This post has been edited by crazymouse_yyh: Nov 9 2006, 11:03 AM

Petshops of course say can, the theory is, if there are so many syrians together, even if they fight, its not so obvious because the one being attacked can disappear into the crowd. The thing is, you are not going to keep that many. If you keep 2 or 3 together they will fight as there are so few of them. THe fiercer ones will probably chase the others round and round the cage and keep attacking and fighting non stop until you have an injured or dead hammy.

This post has been edited by jaswwp: Nov 9 2006, 10:34 AM

In a nutshell:
Try NOT to breed unnecessarily. Don't house more than ONE Syrian in a single cage/tank. Trust pet shop owners at your own risk. Best to do some research.

lol one petshop tell me his syrian can go to gerbils.. al fan fan.. all kid of stories..

Har? That person must be silly.... sure die loh if put together.

OMFG... my male ww abdomen no fur dy! and area near the eye and jaw there also no more!!!

omg..abdomen swollen and red red like an alien now... then slim like hell!!!!
wat to do wat to do??

before this changing bedding also no use condition still that bad..

bring ham to see vet need how much $$?

This post has been edited by shinobikit: Nov 9 2006, 01:03 PM

Get her to a vet quick! Just have Rm100 on stanby... but I think treatment less than Rm50.... depends...

talk about hamstersfighting....err...very very fierce ma...even my rc pups before saperated the males already fighting fiercely....if i let them..may lead to deathma...

hehe.... at last separated both of my hamsters.... lately they fight vr often.... most of the time also can see blood all around... the last time they fought, then came out from their cage and wanders around the kitchen... blood stain was everywhere....

so, here is their new cage setup... its not perfect anyway...


yes, the wheel is too small... no money buy bigger one mah...


this bin cage cost me 10bucks only.... hehehe.... even the wheel is much more expensive compare to his cage.....


there he is in the tissue box....

This post has been edited by the_catacombs: Nov 9 2006, 09:40 PM

waaa quiet ok and economical ...heheh

lets me ask a question...according to my reading..it is true we only have to feed our hammies with one spoon of food only per hammy a day?? then at night veges...

hehe... here's my pups...

is it that habitrail is a good brand? they sell Rm7 for 1kg...expensive?

Value for money food. It's standard quality, nothing special. Widely used as a basic.

haha.... if not i also dun wanna separate them la... troublesome separate into 2 cage.... hard to bring up and down.... study in malacca, hometown in ipoh....
so now, total got 4 cages... coz got 4 hamsters loh....

i feed them whenever da bowl is empty.... but they alwiz hide the remaining food somewhere.... thats why sometimes i feed them 2 days once.... yet they are still so fat....

I got 2 male and 2 female WW, last nite i tried to introduce the female to the male WW, both the male like scared of the females, dunno y.
I dunno whether the female is biting them, the male squeeks, and try to climb out of the box.

My male hamster has big butts, but my female dun have.......Btw, I'm not sure whether the males are WW or not......The lady who sell me that says they r spot hamsters....R spot hamster a kind of WW, or is actually a Chinese Hamster?



This post has been edited by joanalooidog: Nov 10 2006, 11:22 AM

You wanna breed?

Spotted hamsters are not WW. There are no spotted WW in Malaysia... yet.... coz most of the spotteds that they call WW are hybrids. A mix already with Campbells. If you mixbreed with your WW, you gonna be producing more mixed up hybrids and ruin WW colours...

Petshops cannot be trusted.... Even Petsmore petshop honestly told me all the WW are hybrids.

wuuu i don't hv any bear yet.. but i oledi got a name for him... heheheh CreamPuff!! hehehe

oh ya, i intend to breed. Just wanna get ONE litter of babies for my fren.
Mayb later I'll attach photoes of my "SPOTTED" hams for the experts to identify them.
I dun think i can mix them with my female WW. The female like trying to attack thm. I monitored them closely twice, they fight and i immediately break them up.....Left them in a box for 10 minutes, they din group, and the male tend to climb out the box, and he poo and pee in the box (is it bcoz he is scared?).

pinjam post here....
can i ask how much for 1 hamster???