Yea,i have wood bloc...i guess he got bored with it
Maybe i should give him tissue box for him to bite or play??
Thanks

can i give him cheesedale cheese? How much can i give him?
Besides his hammies food,i giv him cat food and our food but not much,just very little.

However,my other hammy refused to eat any other food,he just want his hammies food-corn,sunflower seeds,(the hamsters food,etc)How can i make him eat some other food,he needs to enjoy life too rite There's a lot of tasty food out there ....and i do know ,not all food hammies can eat some are just not for them
thanks

This post has been edited by silencio87: Jun 27 2007, 08:50 PM

i give my hamsters mixed hamsters food: prestige + harbitrail + cat kibble.

and sometimes give them mealworm, carrot, sengkuang, oat..

This post has been edited by dien: Jun 27 2007, 09:20 PM

Give small boxes that's made of cardboard of the middle part of the toilet roll.

Food, you can introduce many types of food. What hamster food are you feeding? Prestige and Harry Hamster are top quality hamster food. The 2 brands contain less corn and sunflower seeds, making the food healthier. It has pellets which my hamsters and gerbils love. Well, for me, I make a large mixture of different foods since I have about 18 hamsters and 24 gerbils. A good mix would be Prestige on its own.... or you can do what we mostly do to save a bit of money, we normally mix Prestige with Habitrail.

You can introduced cooked chicken meat as well but make sure it's boiled meat, no oil. Mealworms are also readily eaten. Vegies like carrots, sawi, broccoli, cabbage and long beans are liked by them too. Crunchy fruits are a welcome but avoid anything sour and make sure all the seeds from apples, pears, grapes are taken out. No watermelon.

This post has been edited by crazymouse_yyh: Jun 27 2007, 09:32 PM

You seem to like to dare feed this and dare feed that... you feed lah, your hamster dies then don't you come crying into this forum saying your hamster dead and you dunno what is wrong. Lemons are acidic, hamsters can't even take orange so if lemon how? Die lah. Chocolate? Hmmm.... is there any hamster food in the world that adds chocolate? What ever you eat, not everything a hamster can eat. If you love your hamsters, you would be doing more research instead of risking their lives with human food.

Your cage is too small.... and cages are the worst type of housing for hamsters since:
1) dirty
2) hurts their feet

Even if get them cages, the best is Habitrail or Critter trail.... also, placing the food bowl on the 2nd level is wrong. You want your hamsters to eat and sleep everytime? By putting the food bowl at the bottom level, you will give it an opportunity to climb up and climb down. Burying their food under hay and woodshavings is common for it is a natural instinct.

If you keep the hamster food for 1 year, you have to keep it in a air tight container and keep it inside the fridge. Grains left in warm areas(our environment is warm and humid) tends to cause mold to grow on hamster food, resulting in sick hamsters later on.

You keep saying branded food as if we are dumb and dunno how to distinguish between low quality and high quality. The food Habitrail and Science Hill's Plan/Diet are 2 low quality products. I guess you do not know what is Prestige, Kaytee, Orijen, Acana, Harry Hamster, Royal Canin and California Natural. The "brands" you are using are ok... but it is not the best and healthiest.

Your hamster is acting normal. The cage biting syndrome is normally associated with cages. This is why most of us prefer tanks. I use storage boxes and plastic aquariums.... it gives the hamster a safer home as well as less stressful to their health. Biting on the bars can lead to liver damage since rust is ingested....

Nuts are a great source of healthy fats.... Cashew nuts are great.

He is bored.... what type of cage are you using? Hamsters living in tanks or aquariums do not show any of these boredom signs...

Durian.... hmmm.... I don't think it is advisable coz it may give the hamster diarrhea....

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Cheese is a good source of calcium. Of course do not go overboard and feed the whole slice lah. Just a bit will do. Cheese also causes their pee to become extra smelly.

Hoho... very adorable. Hamsters love peanut butter but do not give too much since it can cause some hamsters and other rodents to be sick.

hi i juz bought a a pair of winter normal hamster from a pet shop at sunway can anyone tell me what other thing i can feed them except those hamster food i think they got bored with it

hi nightmarej4ck,
as hun said just now..

oh ok thx for your advice

since we are talking about food. my hamster mix is Habitrail + Kaytee + Prestige. ok ?

i think it is ok..
since there are many hamsters' owners mix-up together prestige and habitrail..
erm IINM, kaytee also good for hamsters..

This post has been edited by dien: Jun 27 2007, 10:35 PM

Yups... a mixture of Prestige with any other type is ok coz you already have a base with prestige.... it means you still giving good nutrition.

owh .. ok .. good to hear that ..

As long not only habitrail alone, then is good lah.... Kaytee is ok. LM Farms pulak got 2 types.... get the one with added fruits, better but of course more expensive lah.

almost two months under my custody this two never fight...

just now the male harmed the female ...so I make them seperated

so what to do arr?

buy another cage?



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Eh, the mouth part seems got wound, is it the one which got hurt??

the other day i saw my hamster's 'balls' (testicals) got some sorta pimple/tumor.... inside got yellowish color and it is bulging....

yesterday i check again, its gone adi... and i notice got abit blood stain at his testicals there...

could it be my hamster poke, press out the 'thing', and clean it up himself??.....

Hamsters do not do well in a cage.... your cage is too small for 2 hamsters so they fight for space, even male and female will fight so don't ever listen to petshops or your feelings that says hamsters need friend or sex coz they actually prefer to stay alone.

Separate them. Get another cage or a bigger tank for the other hamster. Do not introduce them together anymore for it can do more harm than good later.

It's called boil or pimple lah.... they dunno how to press it but the boil will naturally burst so the hamster would clean the wound.

yup...and my mistake it was the male the actual victim not the female

I just realized the female is bigger than her ex-partner

pity your hamster.. blooding..

omg. poor hamster. fight wound. btw, the pimple thingy .. it just gonna dissappear naturally right ? coz my Mickey also get that thing ..

based on my experience, it will be recovered naturally..