i tried it before

Tried before as the males will come closer to smell and lick the hand where the smell is the strongest.

Licking will actually arouse the female to stop and raise her tail for the male to mate with her. Females will also stop and raise her tail when you lightly touch her sides when she is on heat

This is also a good oportunity to take good pics as the female has froze in place. And she will freeze for a long time

This post has been edited by blurjoey: Aug 24 2008, 05:00 PM

Then the female will be waiting and waiting while thinking, "come on... What's taking you so long..."

As for tomato....

NO!

Tomato is also another fruit poisonous to most animals except humans and some others. Like chocolate, garlic, onion.

Arn't we humans lucky? XD

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Added on August 24, 2008, 5:14 pmBy the way,.I discovered something alarming. I bought this hamster sand for the ham to bathe a long time ago in Pet Safari...

It's kinda dull light brown and said for hamster. It's nto dusty, so it's fine.

then I noticed that when it touched water it kinda clumped up into packs of sand that you can break apart.

I didn't suspect anything wrong until I remembered about cat clumping sand from the cat topic.

and I went "ZOMG What if they cheat me and sell me cat litter instead???"

How is REAL hamster bath sand supposed to be like?

This post has been edited by Sophiera: Aug 24 2008, 05:14 PM

eh, I have been reading hamster thread for awhile now (actually I followed the entire v9) but I still confuse.. I want to ask something..
toilet sand and bath sand what different?

Toilet sand is for hamsters to pee ad poo in. It's rougher and slightly bigger than bathing sand.

Bathing sand is for hamsters to roll in and clean their fur. It's very fine and might even smell nice since it has various flavors.

Hehe, my robos will juz simply poo or pee on any sand they encounter. Then they will still bath on the same sand until they think the sand is really dirty to bath with.

MY NEW FEMALE ROBO STAT: Calming down at the corner of the tank.
MY OLD ROBOS: Sleeping on the other side of the splitter... so far.

Meaning you need to put both kind of sand in the cage/tank? Or just the toilet sand, and the bathing sand put in once few days to let them roll

LOL your robos pee on the bath sand, and bath with it, then will they have pee smell on their body?

You will need to toilet sand in the tanks most of the time than the sand bath.

Some hamster don't sand bath. Syrians won't roll in the sand bath but will pee and poo in it. Robos will roll in the sand bath also pee and poo. Not sure about WW and RC though as I never had them for pets before.

So it's better to give them sand bath once in a while. No need to put both in the tank.

My robos poo in the toilet sand and bath in the bathing sand. Fat Fat seems to have found the difference and everyone follows her.

Anyway, for syrians you only need toilet sand. for dwarves must have both lo. It's recommended that you leave the bathing sand for them whenever you change their shavings and take it out after half an hour or less.

But my robos loved bathing sand so much I had to leave it in. They will all mogok and jump into bathing sand bowl when I try to remove it from the tank.

Yes the female will freeze in position with her tail up waiting for the male to mate. If the male is a noobie to mating then it will take some time for him to learn. Very funny when we heard from Nezu when she mate her Brownie with a younger male. He didn't know what to do for a few hours

for russian campbell & winter white, some of them will bathe in the bath sand while some wont.. i notice that if the mother loves to sand bath, most of the babies will follow suit.. but for others, it's very hard for me to train them.. but it should be ok, since their fur wont be as oily as robos..

anyone trained their hamster to sand bath before?

I got video of my hamsters having a good time.

but my girls dont seem to care, they dont freeze when i stroke them when on heat - -

You mean mixing the toilet sand with the bedding?

Maybe you're stroking them wrongly...

Put the sand into a bowl and put into the tank ler.. hehe

I know bathing sand, seen it. But never really seen a toilet sand before.. hmm..

at first i tot my WW doesnt sand bath but then i realize it only does it when I'm not around (far away from her tank)

It poos in the bathing sand but doesnt pee there

I know my WW poops and pees practically anywhere because I can't find any specific spot. Anywhere she stays eventually will have poop. Can poop while walking also. The majority of the poop are in places where she sleeps, basically the wheel and the house

Most of the time she just rolls in the sand, but I took it out just to confirm wether or not it IS the right sand in the first place and not some cat litter.

This post has been edited by Sophiera: Aug 24 2008, 06:06 PM

Which water bottle is suitable for habitrail mini, because the mushroom is not the best option -.-