I want hamsters!

Ricochet J

Ricochet J

Ricochet J

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I remember having these cute little creatures when I was four or five. But those memories are vague.
I want new ones! Trouble is I don't know diddly squat about them. Now the local "Pets for You" are doing 2 for £10 with a small case being £8.
I plan on getting the baby hamsters and a simple case for them to go in, then hopefully later on what I want to do is convert my old Lian Li PC60 with side window case into a home for 4 hamsters. In it will have an obstable course and everything.
The reason I am choosing hamsters is because I believe they are low maintenance. Only, I don't know what maintenance they require!
- What do they eat?
- Do they have baths?
- Do I need to take special precautions? e.g. Play with it everyday
- Can I just leave the hamsters in thier cage and with food come back a few days later and expect them to be alive
- Do they breed?

And anything I might know. I'm googling as we speak, but I thought i'd make a thread first to see if anyone has any first hand experience.

Thanks :)
 
- What do they eat?
They eat most salad items lettuce cucumber etc, you can buy dried food for them, give them greens regularly and dried food too.

- Do they have baths?
No. like cats they clean themselves :)

- Do I need to take special precautions? e.g. Play with it everyday
Yes if you dont want to be bitten to death when you come to handle them

- Can I just leave the hamsters in thier cage and with food come back a few days later and expect them to be alive

You are meant to replace their water and food everyday, but I have left mine (when I had it) for two days and it was quite happy

- Do they breed?
only if you have male and female but then you have to seperate them straight away, if you want more than one get same sex (female is best).

Hope I helped.
 
eXSBass said:
Thanks mate that really did help :) Thanks

Can I place thier cage anyway in the room, like on a shelf or something?
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yea anywhere but clean it out everyweek, make sure there are no sharp edges and they have a pretty dep layer of wood chippings at the bottom since they like to dig!, to be honest I would place them near the ground because they are extremly good at escaping.
 
eXSBass said:
I remember having these cute little creatures when I was four or five. But those memories are vague.
I want new ones! Trouble is I don't know diddly squat about them. Now the local "Pets for You" are doing 2 for £10 with a small case being £8.
I plan on getting the baby hamsters and a simple case for them to go in, then hopefully later on what I want to do is convert my old Lian Li PC60 with side window case into a home for 4 hamsters. In it will have an obstable course and everything.
The reason I am choosing hamsters is because I believe they are low maintenance. Only, I don't know what maintenance they require!
- What do they eat?
Some sort of vegetable package you get from the pet shop
- Do they have baths?
Not unless it gets covered in dirt or something
- Do I need to take special precautions? e.g. Play with it everyday
Watch it dont get out of the cage / poo on you
- Can I just leave the hamsters in thier cage and with food come back a few days later and expect them to be alive

Well, yeah but clean the thing out regularly....would you like to live in poo?

- Do they breed?

Not on their own, lol.

And anything I might know. I'm googling as we speak, but I thought i'd make a thread first to see if anyone has any first hand experience.

Thanks :)
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I had a female hamster when I was a small kid and it was nice. I remember one time after we let it out of the cage and it got stuck somewhere and then we got it back, put it in the cage and the next day it had really big cheeks on both side and I thought it had a disease but it was packing food waiting to be let out on another adventure lmao

Careful with them though ~ we had a huge cage and she would climb to the top when the lid was off, one time she was under the floor boards for about 4 days and my dad caught her with food as bait ~ aww cute!
 
zain said:
I had a female hamster when I was a small kid and it was nice. I remember one time after we let it out of the cage and it got stuck somewhere and then we got it back, put it in the cage and the next day it had really big cheeks on both side and I thought it had a disease but it was packing food waiting to be let out on another adventure lmao

Careful with them though ~ we had a huge cage and she would climb to the top when the lid was off, one time she was under the floor boards for about 4 days and my dad caught her with food as bait ~ aww cute!
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yea they are awesome escape artists arnt they :) its amazing how much tehy can get in their cheeks.
 
i bought my girlfriends hamster a huge cage with three floors, and of course it wasn't used to 3 floors, so the first 10 minutes in there were a bit.....disasterous. It fell from floor three, to floor two (landed on its back) then fell onto floor one. But it was ok, just got up and did it again, and now it loves to jump from things high up. Its suicidal!
 
I'll prob pick them up tomarrow then! :D
And start on thier new home, a modified Lian Li :cool:
I'm going to draw up plans, and hopefully log it on OcUK. It will have four tears, with all sorts of activity centres. It will have a mini job centre too if any of the hamsters want a job :cool:
 
Gaygle said:
It fell from floor three, to floor two (landed on its back) then fell onto floor one. But it was ok, just got up and did it again, and now it loves to jump from things high up. Its suicidal!
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Now thats what I call a crazy hamster
 
Hamsters suck.

Vicious, thick, stupid animals.

Get a rat instead - more hygenic, cleaner, more intelligent, really fantastic pets.
 
[TW]Fox said:
Hamsters suck.

Vicious, thick, stupid animals.

Get a rat instead - more hygenic, cleaner, more intelligent, really fantastic pets.
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Nice sweeping statement there. I don't recall hamsters spreading the bubonic plague. :p

Don't listen to Fox, make up your own mind. Hamsters are fantastic little creatures.
 
stu4691 said:
Seriously you need to be careful about getting a pair of hamsters. Unless they are dwarf ones (as mentioned above) they will fight, usually to the death.
Stu
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i have 2 dwarf ones and they had to be seperated, were having scraps every 5 mins!
 
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