hi, i'm new to this forum...

nezumitaro, i wish i could let my bella try the smoothie... perhaps one day you will ship your products to sarawak? hehe.

yeah, she's lucky she's cute... especially when i come home late and i'm so tired and i still have to clean her cage first because she "forgot" to pee in her potty.

LOL.

i clean her cage every other day. bella's a hygiene freak. she's potty-trained, but if she finds her potty a little too smelly for her liking (usually after a day or so), she'll pee elsewhere. then i have to wash the whole cage so that she wouldn't have to walk around in her own pee.

just go for the biggest, simplest cage you can find. those branded cages are usually too small for syrians. i made a mistake of buying a cage with tunnels running over and outside the cage. looks great in the shop.

then when the hamster starts peeing and pooing in the tunnel, the cleaning nightmare starts. haha.

btw, i have a question for hammie owners out there... do any of you find female or male hamsters more aggresive?

imho, my female was more aggressive than males.

I feed my hamster some japanese brand of mix in a yellow packaging which is suppose to prevent smelly pee. Well, my syrian (and my late dwarf hamster) loves it. I realized my hammie won't eat the alfalfa pellets if they're dark green (like the one sold in cheap mix), but the more expensive mixes, the alfalfa pellets are cream colour and those my hamsters will eat.

Try feeding your hamsters in small amounts and make sure they finish their food before you replenish their bowl. My syrian tends to ignore the corn and dried peas. Sometimes I just toss the remaining food out, if the amount if very little. Or else I'll just leave the food a little longer till she finishes it. I don't want to encourage her to pick and choose her food.