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Hamster Care Tips

When it comes to hamster care, all owners want the very best for their lovable little pets. There are many tips and tricks to making your hamster the happiest it can be. With a little bit of effort and a lot of love, you can give your hamster the absolute best life that it deserves!

Bedding

A hamster, like every animal on earth, loves to sleep! And he needs a comfortable bed. Most hamsters probably already know this, but it is worth repeating over and over again – you must never use pine or cedar shavings for bedding for hamsters, or any animal for that matter. This can be fatal to the animal. Alternatively, try aspen as it’s an ideal substance for hamsters. Don’t use cotton bedding at all, the hamster may eat the cotton and choke.

Treats

Hamsters love treats! A good apple, oatmeal or carrot treat will make your hamster happy. Try one at a time and you will eventually notice your hamster taking a preference to certain treats over others – these are his favorites!

Cleaning

Hamsters need a clean environment in their cage so that they can be happy and healthy. Diseases form when an environment is unkempt and dirty. You must always remove waste as quick as possible. Clean up old food scraps as well, especially if they tend to attract ants and flies. The best time to clean your hamster cage is in the morning or evening. Hamsters become active at night so you don’t want to be cleaning their cage during the day when they may be sleeping or resting.

Toys

Hamsters enjoy the good old fashioned hamster wheel. This can often be the only toy you place in the cage and your hamster will be more than happy. Some people like to remove the toy at bed time, although I don’t really believe this is necessary.

Socializing

It is not a good idea to mix hamsters together unless you want to breed them. They will usually end up fighting and may even kill one another. Stick to one hamster, or at least one hamster per cage.

Hamster care is not difficult at all. Sticking to these basic requirements will ensure that your hamster is happy and healthy and will bring you joy for years to come.

Pet Hamsters

Just looking at your pet hamster can tell you quite a bit about the characteristics of him.  First, look at those soulful large eyes.  Gorgeous, aren’t they? While the eyes may be the mirror of the soul, in the case of the hamster, it’s the mirror of the hours that he keeps.  You can tell merely by the large size of the eyes that your hamster is a nocturnal animal. He’s an animal that’s awake at night and sleeps during the day.

And no wonder.  His origins are from the desert,  His ancestors – and contemporary cousins – prowl the arid range at night, when the temperatures are cooler.  During the day, they sleep (much like your teenage children!)

Hamster ears

Next examine the hamster’s ears.  Positioned high on the rodent’s head, these ears are indicative of an animal who possesses a keen sense of hearing.  They’re positioned high on the head to take advantage of that very trait.  After all, he needed this for protection from various predators in the wild.

Hamster whiskers

Check out those cute whiskers!  They’re more than just an attractive appendage.  Whiskers perform a very valuable task.  They’re essentially the way that the hamster touches his world. That’s right!  The hamster uses these whiskers – called vibrissae in the zoological world – to guide them along.  And his face isn’t the only place you can find whiskers.  He also has these valuable tools on the sides of his body.The average hamster relies quite heavily on the whiskers to help him from falling off or bumping into objects.And because a hamster’s eyesight isn’t remarkably clear, these whiskers help him during the day as well as at night when he’s tunneling and its virtually impossible to see because of the dark.

Hamster sense of smell

That could very well be the mantra of your pet dwarf hamster.  Perhaps he can’t see very well, but he’s honed his sense of smell quite well, thank you very much. Hamsters, in fact, depend on their sense of smell to lead to not only food, but water as well (I bet that’s something you can’t do, find water by smell alone – and chlorinated water doesn’t count!)

Their nose also warns them of impending danger.  It helps to identify other animals, helps them find their way back home and believe it or not, it also helps to tell them the right time to breed.  In more ways than one, a hamster’s very survival depends on it sense of smell.

Hamster scent glands

And while we like to credit his nose for his incredible power, the truth of the matter is that the hamster has scent glands on other parts of his body.  These scent glands produce a musk-like fluid, which is primarily used to attract the opposite sex.  It’s also used to mark and identify his territory and quite frankly, to recognize individual hamsters.  These are called midventral scent glands.

Some species of hamsters even have a second set of scent glands located on either side of their bodies.  This particular type of gland is larger on the male than the female.  It’s also influenced by the sex hormones.

You can recognize these glands in the male.  They’re the dark pigmented areas on the side surrounded by dark, bristly hairs.  In the female, the hair around the side glands are softer.  If you can’t see them right away, watch a hamster groom himself.  He spends much time grooming these glands (can’t be too good looking for the opposite sex, now can you?)

You’ll discover more about his incredible sense of smell later in this site, when we explain how to orient your new pet to your presence and his new surroundings!

The Hamster’s need for speed

The scarcity of food in her natural habitat contributes to another physical trait as well:  the need for speed.  When you adopt your pet dwarf hamster you’ll know exactly what we mean. You’ll discover that your hamster needs exercise – and plenty of it.  The stereotype of a hamster running on a wheel getting nowhere, while humorous, is extremely accurate!

In the wild, the hamster needs to travel vast distances (especially in relation to his size) in order to find enough food. Of course, this physical trait shouldn’t be much of a surprise to you.  In the desert where food can be hard to come by, storing what you do find for later only makes sense from a survival standpoint.

But, unfortunately, animal behaviorists don’t know as much as they would like about the dwarf hamster’s wild relatives.  Naturally a burrower, the untamed hamster spends much of her time underground.  She prefers to hide in the cool recesses of tunnels, far away from the glaring sunlight.