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harriet is having a total freakout ( Read more... )

So I have two dwarf hamsters. Gulliver, who is younger but heftier, likes attack-grooming Pipkin, which I hear is his attempt at asserting dominance. Lately, Pipkin has taken to urinating on Gulliver. I've already given Gulliver a chinchilla-sand bath the other day, but I looked into their cage this morning to find that Pipkin had peed on Gully ( Read more... )

I have a Syrian hamster named Thurman. He's a little over a year old now ( Read more... )

Dorothy, my long-haired Syrian, has been squeaking a bunch lately. I'm apt to believe that they are little sneezes because they shake her whole little body (that is now sleeping in my desk drawer). She has never done this before, not at such frequency, and I have explored a few options. I do not smoke around her or in the house at all; though I do ( Read more... )

not only does my hamster chew on the bars of her cage lately, she also puts any food i put in her bowl in her pouches immediately, then buries it under her bedding. i tried giving her some litter to use and occasionally she throws it everywhere. other than that she chirps a lot and never uses her wheel. she was always sleeping until a week ago and ( Read more... )

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I came home today from an extracurricular activity from school and noticed my hamster, Pocky, out of her little house-den. She usually isn't around this time, so I went over to her to see what she was doing ( Read more... )

why do my male hamsters always pee on their food then eat it? is it a, "this is my food. it has my pee, so back off!", kinda thing? is it bad for them?

Please help...my hamster was active up and about and acting normal jsut a few hours ago...i thought he was just snoozing like he does sometimes in the afternoon, and just now i tried rousing him and he just laid there...i eventually picked him up and he was is very lethargic...like a rag doll...i sat him back inside his habitat, and he just sat ( Read more... )