Hmm.... thats sound so jealous

Anyway, they are not 'his' but ours I no need to tame them on purpose especially Jackjack. He is already tame when we first bought him from Pet Shack Thanks to Joan Just spend more time and be patience, and you can tame them by yourself la. If someone go help you to tame, end up your hamsters get more attach with the other than you

Good luck to you anyway

She cannibalized coz firstly, she bred when she was too young... resulting in some pups being premature.... so she cannibalized them so they won't suffer later in life. If she cannibalize the remaining 2, means she is not ready to be a mom.

Sometimes some give birth to a few is because get pregnant too early, sometimes female is not ready to be a mom and kills of her young.... things can happen.

Petshops do not care, so of course they sell at 3 weeks old. Most of the hamsters from Pets Wonderland there are actually underage, the hamsters there are never 4 weeks but as young as 3 weeks.... they do grow stunted or get sick easily coz their immune system is very weak. Take extra care of it.

It did not jump till it died. Because you inbred, it died from inbreeding.... hamsters that keep jumping continuously are like born with a disorder... like brain damaged....

guinea pigs are different, they are super sensitive and would die if they are too scared or are hurt.


You got 9.... I got more hahahah.... if you want cheaper, then mix a high quality brand with a normal brand. I mix Prestige with Harry Hamster and 2kg of Habitrail staple.... means RM18+RM18+RM13= RM49 and that only last me less than 3 weeks.... Also, I'm a student and my parents do not give me extra cash for my pets....

People here are not trying to flame you.... they are just concerned as to why you wanna find something cheaper.... coz to me, 9 hamsters is nothing compared to the 30 hamsters.... LOL... be cool about it. Everyone here is a concerned hamster owner, we would question alot and even may say somethings that we may not think it is that personal but to you maybe it is.... but just be cool about it and listen.

They will eat....

RM7 for habitrail is not 2kg.... it is 1.2kg..... 2 kg is RM12.50 to Rm13....

Yes, you can separate.... but make sure it really can eat.

It doesn't cost much.... about RM20 or maybe RM5... who knows what the vet may charge.... The teeth grows pretty fast.

Female syrians smell.... coz of their heat cycle.... Do not bath it.

Keep alone is best.... Robos only do well with pairs or small groups.

i wonder why my 2 robo is so shy.. they dun play the wheel or let me touch them..they just eat,drink, hide or sleep..

they are like scared of my hand..<cry>

do i need to tame them? i'm spending quite sometime with them everyday.
like what joan told me b4 i bought them,they are superactive,they don't run, they zoommmm...hard to touch them though..

Play with them often. Let them get familiar with your smell. I tamed my 3 syrians babies for 1 mth I think.. until they can step on my hand volunteerily and can be picked up. But I really spend a lot of times with them... untilI become nocturnal like now. Since robo is the fastest hamsters, i hope u have a fast hands
Oh btw, based on my xperience, the easiest way to tame is also let them stay in a tank instead of cages with tunnels etc. In tanks, it's easier for you to pet them while they eat, easy to catch them also. If commercial cages with tubes etc, they can run and hide when u wanna catch and play with them. The more they feel human touch, the more tame they'll be lar.

Let's the sifu confirmed this... from my experience, it really works.

from my past experience on syrian, they are easier to tame than robo. but last night there is a great leap though, i try to bring them to the wheel and after they smell my hand they just run as fast as they can on the wheel.. after 1 hour, they started to know that a wheellllll and it's fun to run on it.

time to feed them now..haha..supper..!!!

you individually feed your hamster based on time??i just put food in everyday lol??i dont have so much time to do that...

Well well, I expected this when you say you wanna buy robos as my robos boys also like that. They are very different from Syrians, totally different My robos only take treats from my hand and then run away. That's the best I can do so far, once they are tame, they'll become wild again if you stop playing with them for few days, that's why I get bitten from them :cry:They are so difficult to tame

Hope you can tame them one day, all the best to you Gam-ba-teh!!!

my syrian never bite me before lol...i play with it every once in a while but its always tame and never try to escape from the cage..it also freezes when i pet it...

Hope I can be nocturnal like you too but I gotta wake up at 6am for work everyday and will not be at home for the whole day or more than 30 hours Make me jealous of your work....

Congrats for your half a dozen of pets

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Added on January 20, 2008, 11:41 amMy Syrians never bite me too... You are lucky cause you get your Syrians from a good breeder and not pet shops. I'm taking about robos will get untame after they became tame and left for few days without human touch. If you get bitten by your tame Syrians then you should be a terrible person and make them feel threaten... Hope you are not

This post has been edited by sangels: Jan 20 2008, 11:41 AM

im not .. or am i?? XD .. is there a diffrence in hamsters from pet shops and hamsters from people?

You got your black eyed ivory Syrian from Reanne, of course that's from breeder, wonder do you know the differences or not

Yes!! That's why all this while we strongly recommend people to buy from breeder rather than pet shop If you really read all the previous posts and you'll know what's the differences. I think you better read up so that you can catch up what we are discussing here

This post has been edited by sangels: Jan 20 2008, 11:54 AM

FrostFox,

If you have read up from the 1st page of this thread or V5 or other hamster websites. You would know that syrians will stay tamed even if you left them alone for a week or so without any human interactions.

sangels was talking about robos which will be untamed in a few days without human interactions and our syrians are tamed from the beginning because they come from good small pet shops owners who took better good care for them.

You got your rare syrian from Reanne but still you got a very long way to go in order know how to better take care of them. Hopefully the rare syrian Reanne gave you will have a good life with you.

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Added on January 20, 2008, 12:07 pmDude,

For goodness sake, read from the first page of these thread. You will know there is a difference between getting from a big pet shop (pet safari) and getting from small pet shops (pet shack) and home breeders (reanne, crazymouse, nezu, etc).

This goes for other pets too if you don't know. Some small pet shops & home breeders do it for passion of the pets so they took better care of the pets whereas big pet shops do it for the profit and they don't handle the pets.

You should go to the peta website and watch how cruel they treat pets in those big shops.

Again please read more before replying as it makes you look silly

This post has been edited by blurjoey: Jan 20 2008, 12:07 PM

what do you mean by that??

thanks crazymouse for answering all my ques n doubts

He meant that you gotta take good care of the rare Syrian you are having now as a good master to her by doing more research and study. So that your hamster can live happily till the end of her day.

i mean ... who is Reanne?

Since you dunno who is she, then forget about what I've said earlier on. I thought you know her (Reanne) and get your Syrian girl from her....

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Added on January 20, 2008, 1:57 pm# Reanne:


Reanne, I'm just wonder you recognized the wrong hamster.......


This post has been edited by sangels: Jan 20 2008, 01:57 PM

uhh..who posted that??i put a dwarf hamster together and they died..not syrians

What type of dwarf hamster?

How did they die? Fighting or.....?

Wah frost, so fast ady die?