Woody pet is safe to use. It is a good bedding lah.... Ya, Delikate never state what wood... same with many other types of bedding. Yes, Breeder's Choice is good but I don't think available in many shops. Stick to Woody Pet lah, hamster won't eat it. I use Woody Pet for my Tortoise.

Good that you got a better cage for them... it doesn't need to be fancy, as long big, it makes the hamster happy heheheh....

Congrats

You can feed dog kibble. Go and ask for sample packets and feed loh. You can feed cooked chicken and fish also. If possible, a few mealworms a day.

Lah, I got no new pics hahahah.... later lah, you see Muffin boy heheheh....

Well, not really. Hamsters enjoy the comfy feeling of hay as nesting material and chewing material... also, hamsters won't poke themselves.

Hmmm.... I got similar thing.... then I changed the bedding then ok liao. It is either the bedding too dirty or it is allergic to the wood.

Hybrid mah.... Hybrids got tendency to either be infertile or something weak in their genetics.... never breed hybrids.

PLease read the hamster caresheet links on the 1st page since you are new to hamsters. Don't get spoon fed here. Learn yourself the basic needs of a hamster first.

Coz cute and fat mah hahaha....

Dog pellet is also called Kibble and biscuit. Yes, it is good for hamsters. Not too oily for them. It gives them protein and minerals.

Hmm... if inside the eye, could be cataract forming lah.

Plain paper won't absorb the pee. PUt some tissue, at least it can absorb the pee.

Bowl is not so good. SOme hamsters can drown in water bowl while some become wet, catch cold and fall sick. In the mean time, you watch them drink. You place the bowl of water and jaga them. Once they finish drinking then you take out the bowl. Do this twice a day.

If it is an ulcer, need vet. If it is cataract... then no need go Vet loh, coz they won't do operation on such a small creature,.... and it would cost a lot of $$$...

You can treat it yourself, you can go pharmacy and buy artificial tears eye drop. Don't get eyemo... get other brands...

excercise wheel... the cheapest plastic and has good quality is around RM7.50... it's yellow for Syrians and Pink for dwarfs...

I don't think pets wonderland sells that... coz they sell those wheels RM20 over... those cheap wheels, you can get from Carrefour also I think... I got mine from Petsmore.

Yah, it comes with both stand, the bearing(I dunno what u call the middle thing) and a suction cup if you use for tanks...

Sorry, I got no pic since very old and I threw the box away. Anyway, if you near Taman Megah's Pet Family, drop by there, many cheap wheels.

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you in Gombak? Heheheh... Me at Setapak.

erm... You know pasaraya Ong Tai Kim? There got a petshop just behind the pasaraya... they also got sell the wheel.

Got... the one right behind should sell coz I got my 1st wheel from there... Should have lah... the other one that combine with bicycle shop dun sell.

If really you can't find, go Petaling Street and buy from Petsmore.

Yah yah... that one loh. You go at the back of the shop, they got a few wheels.

Yah, that's the one... I didn't see these wheels in Midvalley... also long time never go 1U ahahah... but it is a cheap and good wheel.

But I think the size too small for Syrian hamster, even they put picture of Syrian for the yellow wheel, but it feels cramp.

I bought the large 8.5 inch comfort wheel... expensive but my hamster loves it!

Today went to Petaling Street... Petsmore got supply for Sluis and Prestige.... and the other shop down the road got many cheap wheels. Also some new stock of Syrian hamsters... their winter whites and robos look sickly but Syrians active and better looking since stock just arrived.

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Here's my new hamster's pics...




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Hamsters can eat a wide variety of fruits and vege. Just be sure no sour fruits and no herb and spice vege.... I like to give mine cucumbers, carrot, apple, jambu, sawi, spinach, coral lettuce, lil bit cabbage( Do not give chinese cabbage), pear....

Every hamster has their own attitude. Not all are tame. It just so happen your males are aggressive. This is due to bad upbringing when they were younger. All my winter white hamsters are very gentle, never bite at all. Normally seperate from mom at 6 weeks. 7 weeks, you may see the male pups start to hump their mom hahaah....


Russian Campbell! Looks like an agouti.

Wow, so many babies. Your russian campbell very productive. Are there 10 babies?

For Syrians, it's normal to have 10 or more... but the best would be 6 to 8 babies since they get more milk.

For Dwarfs, normally 6 to 8 is an average litter size.... but I prefer 4 to 6 babies since the mom can really take care and nurse well. The problem with big litters is that the babies tend to not get enough milk and since hamsters are dedicated moms, it can cause the female to become skinny from nursing so many.

Average litter is around 6... less is good mah, more milk for the babies. I have seen my friend's Syrian hamster have 10 to 13 babies. Anyway, never breed a hamster that is more than 1 year old... a danger to both mom and babies' lives.

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.

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