Feeding Jazzy hamster mix

[webkinzlover404]

how many hamsters do u have?there sososo cute,ur so lucky:]i want one!

[Frantastic69]

Heya, thanks for your response, to be honest after the comment was made on my vid about the rotastack wheels being too small for Syrians and discovering the critter wheel which is about 3 times the size, I would have to agree! I have 4 of them for my 5 hamsters and it is true, the rotastack wheels are too small for them and they absolutly love the critter wheels, you should check em out, real cheap and soooo much better for the little Syrian dudes!

[HMPrincessJazzy]

Jazzy actually loved her Habitrail wheel and only sometimes used her Rotastak wheel, but she was not big, for a syrian hamster. I've now got two winter white dwarf hamsters who prefer the Rotastak wheels to the habitrail ones.

[HMPrincessJazzy]

New vids of my two dwarf hamsters have been posted...Check out my profile page!

[HMPrincessJazzy]

I used to have Campbells hamsters too. Because they were so small, I had to use mouse ladders in my vertical tubes! It took them a while to learn how to clim the ladders, but they LOVED the long, curly tubes, and would run up and down them SO fast!

[KoolKatJade44]

i feel sorry for that one hamster you should by a couple more

[HMPrincessJazzy]

Syrian hamsters (and in my experience, dwarf hamsters) are solitary creatures and would have killed another hamster that was put in their cage. They DO NOT live in family groups in the wild, but leave the birth home within a few months of birth, to strike out on their own. Do not be conned by lying pet-shop owners who say that you hamster will 'need a friend.' You'll end up with one injured or even killed! They only say that to get you to keep buying from them and will tell you anything!

[HMPrincessJazzy]

Jazzy lived to the ripe old age of 26 months with no instances of illness (most are very lucky to reach 2 years, esp in the tropics.) If you give your hamster enough attention, they will never be lonely!

[roborovskihamsters]

Dwarf hamsters are not solitary animals, (well, the female Chinese is) but it's just Syrians (but not when they are young)that are the solitary ones who should be kept alone.

[HMPrincessJazzy]

I had a pair of campbell's who were litter-mates who I was going separate before they were eight weeks old, but then one attacked the other very viciously and I had to separate them (from their mother and each other) before that. Thank goodness I was at home and saw what was going on, or I'd have had one dead hamster, maybe more.

[HMPrincessJazzy]

General opinion is that it is only the Robos that can be kept together. I tend to agree, because this incident happened even though I had them in such a huge cage with so much space. If they were forced to live in the same space, I'd understand little 'squabbles,' but one hamster went searching for the other, with the intention of attacking. I saw it all happen before my own eyes! I could hardly believe it!

[roborovskihamsters]

Gosh! Well that does sound bad!

[coolguy11897]

yeah i really dont like that hamster but still i take care of it, i like my teddy bear hamster more (it doesn't bite at all)

[HMPrincessJazzy]

If they are given ample space, they can still lead a healthy, happy life. They just don't like being handled! I still enjoy having them, because I can see them running through the tubes and stuff. It's kinda like having a fish tank! You can't play with them, either, but they're fun and relaxing to watch!

[HMPrincessJazzy]

It was actually quite scary, but there was no permanent damage done, just a few bites that healed with time and the help of antibiotic powder. But Hannibal 'the cannibal' Hamster was kept separate from his brother, from that day on!

[coolguy11897]

my dwarf hamster bites hard, bite my sis finger then she started 2 bleed

[roborovskihamsters]

That's not good! Generaly, Campbell's tend to bite much more than Chinese or Roborovski'and can be harder to tame...

[HMPrincessJazzy]

I had a female one who I called the Rottweiler, because she had a habit of attaching herself to ppl's didgits! But she unexpectedly had babies (she was pregnant when I brought her home from the petshop) and she was the best, most gentle, attentive mther! Go figure!

[HMPrincessJazzy]

Some hamsters, dwarf or syrian, can be so gentle. Yet other, it doesn't matter how young you get them or how much you handle them, they'll never be hand-tamed...Just one of those things! If any of mine have been nasty like this, having the Rotastak means that they can still have an active, enjoyable life, even if I can't hamdle them that much!

[HMPrincessJazzy]

Okay...

1. My hamster was a syrian, one of the larger, solitary-living hamsters, tho through experience my dwarf hamsters did not get along with each other, either...

She's a cream banded hamster and I adopted her from one of the local animal charties, near where I live. I also volunteer there on a regular basis.

[HMPrincessJazzy]

3. (2. will have to be posted underneath, because my cleaning routine had much more detail!) My hamster only cost about S$10, which is just under US $7 or just over 3.5 GB pounds.

I did donate some extra money, tho, because the charity do excellent work here and I wanted to take all of their hamsters home with me, but because of time (starting a new job) I knew that would not be the responsible thing to do.

[aaronANDcraig]

a few questions...

1- what kind of hamster is that?

2- is it a pain in the butt to clean the cage?

3- how much did your hamster cost?

[HMPrincessJazzy]

I'm so glad that I loaded up these clips, now...Poor Jazzy passed away, just last Thursday! :( She had a long and happy life that was virtually unmarred by any kind of illness...Hope she's happy in hamster heaven, now! Thanks for any comments you might choose to leave!

[HMPrincessJazzy]

2. Her cage is rather easy to clean. I do one cage per day or every couple of days (some cages seem to be used and dirtied more quickly than others,) so overall, the whole lot gets cleaned every 7-10 days. Also, Jazzy was potty-trained at a young age (hamsters are by nature clean animals, so this is not too hard to do,) and so that made cleaning easier.

[HMPrincessJazzy]

2 continued...Her potties got cleaned every three days and she had three, in all. The Rotastak really does clean well and as long as you don't use abrasive cleaning products, they can last for years. Some of mine is more than 12 years old! I think it's great and has provided luxury to my hamsters, over the years! Once I've had chance to grieve and adopt new hamster, I'll get it all set up again, I'll be posting some more vids!