Recently I bought three male dwarf hamsters and I just have some questions about their behavior as I've never owned dwarf hamsters before ( Read more... )

Well my 2 boys Robo and Samson were getting along at first, but it appears there has been serious fighting for a little while. Samson is a total submissive, so he's injured and raggedy. They've obviously been fighting while we've been sleeping in the night, as Samson's entire rear end is one enormous scab and he has small bites on his back feet. ( Read more... )

inb4 stupid pet owners ( Read more... )

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So, I have three dwarf hamsters, marshmallow, strudel and waffle. Waffle and strudel are sisters, I received them together and they have been living together for almost 6 months now in the same large cage. Marshmallow is in her own separate cage. I saw them this morning, everything was okay and I just got back now to see Strudels mouth covered in ( Read more... )

Of course, as soon as I say the boys are getting along, they start fighting ( Read more... )

And here I was hoping to do a nice 'check out my new hams' post this week, alas. My new dwarf hamster Lucy is missing an ear, I suspect it to have been bitten off by her cagemate Prudence. They're both 3 weeks to a month old, female as far as I can tell, and halfway tame. I was cleaning their cage today so I put them in a smaller travel cage ( Read more... )

Per my last entry, the husband and I took the males back to the store. When we told them what was going on, they offered to let us trade the female for a male, rather than the two males for females. The husband thought this seemed to be acceptable, so we took her back last night and got a him. When we got home, I cleaned the cages to try to get the ( Read more... )

First off, thank you to those that responded to my earlier post. I'm not so worried about separating them, and now I think it would be best ( Read more... )