not sure though... mayb he was grooming himself before he came out from the tube.....

everything that is possible...

nolah... jz feed them alot... but my hamsters do tend to be lazy... they sleep alot and exercise for a few minutes only....

if u tend to feed them too much, they will become choosy in their diet... if i feed sunflower seed to them, they dont even care...

catacombs, you mean rice here "nasi" or "beras"??
or both??

may him RIP

i dunno whether this is normal to Syrians... but mine both are so active (maybe bcoz not fat YET...)... they really run on wheels from around 11pm to 6am... even when my wife wake up in the middle of the night somewhere around 3am to prepare milk for my son, still can hear them running... so i think if they are fat a bit can slow down the running la... quite noisy also....

Yeah like dogs. Crazymouse said that they'll drool if it's too hot. Hamsters don't sweat that's for sure.

Well, this was taught to me by my chemistry teacher in A levels that holds master degrees in mathematics, physics and chemistry. He did say if possible, get the holey veggie. Less trouble.

lol
Get the silent spinner or put some lubricating oil on the axle of the wheel.

Why do you want them to be fat? Don't think of just making them fat. As long as you feed them a good balanced diet, they will eventually gain weight. That's what's happened to most of my hams so far, that's why they look so chunky.

reanne... not that FLABBY FAT la... but FABULOUS FAT...

p/s: if wrestling world got Triple-H, i got Triple-F... Fabulous Fat Furballs...

This post has been edited by arraille: Mar 2 2007, 05:00 PM

My pudding starts from chubby to skinny... squeeze by my relatives kids during CNY.. =_= Now he eats alot till he's like a balloon..

cant wait to use toothbrush for my hammy heheh..but must buy new one first...dont want to share la hahaha...

btw,
my two mottled-dove males white part of fur always turn to yellowish la...
i feel sand bath didnt effect to clean that yellowish fur..
emm..what i must do aa..must i bath them ??

Normal lah... hamsters are nocturnal.

If noisy, just take some minyak and apply at the wheel's spinner.

To make them fat, you should feed them a variety in their diet.... fruits, vegie, grain, bread, rice, meat, insects....

Sand bath is to get rid of grease(minyak) on the fur to make it nice looking. The yellowish stain is Pee lah.... they kencing kencing on each other hahaahh.... well, you can try bathing with water but very risky.... better you just use a wet cloth to wipe them.

Waaa...peee aaa...but i never see they kencing kencing on each other hun...
they live together in one tank now..now hasi saperated the matured campbell males from the two female..they pups also getting grow..need to saperated also later..

if want to lap with wet cloth have to put any sabun or syampoo ke hun??

Yes... you won't see lah.... they pee a bit or your hamsters sleep in their own pee in the wood shavings.... it really is the pee stains....

Lap use wet cloth only... dun use sabun.

My ww.. I feel like wanna cekik it sometimes. I put the bedding nicely for it and it'll kick one spot away in the corner then pee there, as a result, the pee won't be absorbed by the bedding and it'll stink. grrrr...

My syrian hammie does that too

cooked white rice... normal one lor when u eat rice... not beras la....

yeah... before mine became baloon, they are quite active as well... run for at least few hours every nite.... but now, can only hear them run few minutes... after that sleep few hours, 5am wake again run awhile and eat eat eat... den back to sleep again...

jz use normal cooking oil to lubricate the wheel... other greese or household lubricant might be dangerous if ur hamster licks it.....

yeah, jz give them normal diet good enough... too fat also not good, like mine everyday sleep only.... thats why i alwiz wake them up in the middle of their sleep... kekekeke...

hahaha.... i guess its normal for syrians... they dig and push the beddings away and sleep on it... i guess they dont like sleeping on the bedding, but prefer to be surrounded by beddings....

potty train ur hamster if u dont want them to pee in the cage.... if ur hamster is well potty-trained, u only need to clean their potty when they are smelly.... otherwise, wait till their cage full with poos only change the beddings....

thats why now i change my hamster beddings once every 2 weeks....

Hard to potty train.. I read an article.. the lady use vinegar to wash the cage everytime to take off the smell until her hamster pee at the right place. I'm planning to get a small hidehouse and connect it to my habitrail mini then put bath sand.. hopefully my ww will use it.

can apply vinegar?

I don't think so...

You can seriously. Not apply. Clean it with vinegar. It takes off the smell. Crazymouse thought me that method too.

Yups... vinegar is safe to use. Cleaning a cage with vinegar can get rid of certain smells.... and if you drip a circle of vinegar around the cage, it can ward off ants for a day or 2...

I just bought 1 pairs of Winter white, 1 is pearl(male) and 1 more the sapphire(female).
I try to put them in the same cage with my Gangsters(Robos).

1 of the Robos fight with the male WW.

So i faster separate them, put the WWs in my plastic cage.

Look like WW is easy to handle than the gangters.

Share u all 1 more thing on my syrian.

He is very tame. I always let him go out from the cage and give his walk around my house.

After he feel tire, he will got back to the cage by himself.

This post has been edited by dazzle: Mar 3 2007, 01:13 AM