How did the banded dove escaped?

Hmmm... don't under estimate hamsters, they are very smart. I get to know this from JackJack. Saw the way he climb up to bite my tank lid and the way he escape from the playpen, I know how smart they can be.

Hope you can find your banded dove back. I like that color very much

Aijo!! No one say can bring in animals through custom la, they don't have passport mah... kakakaka.... We call it 'bring' but actually is 'smuggle'. Plan to do that, but need to drive in, need a GPS first...

Please post this in adoption thread.

Just wonder why are you selling your cage when you said not enough cages for the rest? Just wonder, if me, tak sampai hati wanna give the hamster away. Maybe you can keep her still.....

Maybe you can read the first page of the thread for more bedding review.

I'm currently using Breeder Celect (cat liter), Aspen wood shaving, Corn cobs, healthy pets and also timothy hay for bedding. We'll mixed a few types in. Breeder Celect and healthy pets are made from recycled papers. Going to try woody pets soon when we finish out current corn cobs. If your hamster smell very fast, then you can try on timothy hay as it can cover the smell better with the strong tea smell. Our hamsters don't smell so fast now. Still like the Breeder Celect very much. You can get all these from all the big pet shops like Pet Safari, Pet Lover Center in Sunway Pyramid, and also Pets More. Pet Shack do sell all this as well. Hope can help you in this.

Currently I also got 3 long haired Syrians. 2 of them are super long haired, like carpet kind of fur. I got 1 from Petshack and the other 2 from Penang. Actually there are 3 from Penang, unfortunately 1 of them died from wet tail Petshack still have some long haired syrians, brought my cousin there 2 weeks ago. Cute, chubby and tame long haired syrian they got. Do check it out.

I think they can groom themselves very well, I just need to make sure they are clean and healthy.

For hamster to bite wire (it's metal) is bad for their health especially you have a syrian, the metal also will get rust and it's worse when they bite it. On top of that, they may also injured themselves when they bite the metal mesh with their nose stuck in between the holes on the mesh.

This post has been edited by sangels: Mar 27 2008, 07:57 PM

Why you wanna feed the small animal with all kind of funny food which is not suitable for them? Just feed them with hamster food and fresh veges and fruits. If you wanna your hamster go to heaven within a short time then you can feed them with whatever you are eating. They are just rodents, not human la. Hamster eat hamster food, human eat human food. You never see human eat hamster food right? So, just leave them with hamster food and fresh veges and fruits. They will be healthy and nice with that. Good luck to your hamsters.

Yeap, I agreed with you I think he is a funny person too. He is so imaginative that he wanna give his hamster with all kind of food. He also dunno hamsters are nocturnal animals as he think his hamsters are very weired. Hahaha... very funny person instead.

This post has been edited by sangels: Mar 28 2008, 12:09 AM

Well, animal is animals, no human's emotions like 'boring', 'loving', 'lonely' and etc. Thats all human's emotions thinks that they are having the same feelings like us, but they don't. That's why you don't need to feed them with other food because you think they'll get boring or give them a partner because they are lonely and they need a partner for sexual activity. They live on their own cause they are solitary and they just have their instinct to breed instead of enjoy themselves with sex. So, don't put your feelings on them.

They like sweet food, that's why they will finished all the sweet thing first. But it doesn't mean its good for them. Just like alcohol, maybe it's taste good for some people but it's not good for health. Same theory. Don't feed what they like without knowing the basic, oily, sweet and salty food are bad for them. With that as your guidelines, you'll be able to be a good and responsible hamster owner.

If you are bored just feeding with hamster food, try on fresh veges and fruits. They'll love that as well.

Kena bang?? What do you mean?

Hmm... I don't consider it as 'bang', he just didn't do research and just ask in here. We are answering and sharing, don't mean to shot. I still have lots to learn though. Hope he can be a good and responsible hamster owner as he is handling a life. Hope he understand that.

No need to get on diet, just need to stop those sweet food and high sugar contain food. High cholesterol food as well. Eg: Corn, honey stars, kuaci, ...etc

She just look like my DigDig when he suffer from wet tail. Weak and sick. Hope she id doing fine. Bring her to vet asap, don't be like me, too late to be in vet's hands.

Totally forgot about it.... Gosh!!!! Dunno whether can go tomorrow or not? Sigh!

So sorry and sad to hear that What's the caused?

Seen it before in Pet Lovers (Sunway Pyramid) and Pet Safari (Ikano). Wanna to try this and woody pets for my hammies too, but gotta finish the Breeder Celect first cos we bought the biggest pack from Pet Shack

Really? Ok Ok... Cos I read the first page review says its good, so think of trying it out luckily haven't buy yet Thanks ya! My stock for BC half gone already, gotta get from Joan again, it's so heavy to carry, thank god we have transport

Let the hamster get used to the new environment first as you only got it yesterday. Leave it there with it's own house and stuffs for 1 or 2 days. Then try to put your hand in and let it get used to your smell. This you gotta do for maybe few days. Then you think if it's not scared when you put your hand in, next you can touch it slowly and gently. If it don't run away for it's life, then you can try to pick it up and hold it gently. After you play with it then give a treat. Do this everyday! It just need time to adapt itself to the new environment. Just imagine yourself being place in a new home, then maybe you can understand how the hamster feel. Don't keep disturb the hamster if it is not ready and still scared of you, doing this you'll stress it up and it take longer time to tame it. Just be patience for a better outcome. All the best.

You can see from those pet shop who keep few adults Syrians together, ended up all injured here and there. It's a good example. You can really see them fight and biting each other. I don't think if you already know the fact that they are solitary and yet still wanna take the risk of harming the hamsters by putting them together. Hope you can understand why we never put them together especially for those who do research before keeping them. If you wanna know and 'experince' more, you can go visit those big pet shops which they put adult Syrians together.