Dog biscuits are good for hammies, they like to crunch on them, and can devour one quite quickly!

We used to breed hamster quite a few years ago....not sure what people say now, but we used to feed them small bits of lean meat, such as chicken and mince - about once a week.

I know my Sister used to rescue rats, and her rats loved nothing more then gnawing on chicken bones.

Would like to add...please please don't use the bedding that is similar to cotton wool (you know which I mean?)
So many little rodents loose limbs and even die from getting entangled in it, and not being able to get out

Yes hevvur - agree 100% on all your points we feed our fish and chicken etc. I think hamsters are not meat eaters though, whereas rats are... I'm not sure however. so don't hold me to that. I know one must NEVER feed a chinchilla animal flesh or byproducts etc.

Anyway - yes, rats do love chicken bones! which reminds me, couscous and chicken for our lot tonight!

xx

Yep, I'll vouch for that, we've had 4 hamsters since having children and they've all been nasty!! The last one lived for 4 years too.....Harry the Hamster, although we tried all ways to befriend him, he really was a nasty piece of work we tried handling him often, but he never got over his biting, once he bit right through the skin on my husbands hand between the thumb and forefinger......and boy did that hurt....well in men's terms anyway

My sister had one that escaped his cage one night, by morning he had ate a HUGE hole in her carpet on the landing.....lol... luckily her insurance covered her for pet damage!

Hope your little girl is friendlier than ours were

we used to have a chinese dwarf hamster that chewed through the plastic on the cage (we didn't notice for a week but i was about 6!) it was really smart little devil and stopped in the cage during the day and came out at night to move food to the cupboard under the stairs - the pile of food by the hoover was huge!

Hazel xxx

We also used to have a rabbit that simply could not be contained - she used to dissappear for ages and then turn up again, give birth, raise the babies - leave them with us and off she'd go again! Even after we didn't have any more rabbits we kept a "secure" hutch for her to come and give birth in... she wasnt running about the streets or anything we had a field and woodland out our back and she loved it!

P.S - sorry just went off on a lil ramble there! we have two rats now called Arnold and Jeremy

Awww she's lovely Jessica but please whatever you do - DON'T BUY HER A FRIEND - unless you put the friend in the other cage. Syrian hamsters can't live together after maturity and fight to their death. They are one species that don't need friends at all they are happy on their own as long as you give them a wheel to run round in and a large exciting cage with tubes. I have had numerous Syrian hamsters - all in separate cages though. My favourite one was a brown one called Twinkle - she was lovely and never bit - we could do anything with her. She died about 3 years ago. I have three hamsters now - A russian female, A russian male and a Roboroskvi hamster - they are all species of dwarf hamster.

My sister had two chinese hamsters and they are meant to be able to live together. A few months ago she came down to find one of them eating the other one She was nearly sick - it was a terrible sight so please don't ever put any hamster with another one

This is my Russian male when he was a baby - he's a lovely silvery black colour at the moment.



This is my Roboroskvi hamster


This is a Chinese hamster that I used to have.



This is one of our guinea pigs that had babies a couple of years ago and she sadly died when the babies where only about 4 days old

awwwwwwww what a cutie :smt007

Awww, your hamsters are so cute Foxy!! I've never seen ones like that in the shops Me and my little Esmarelda are getting on a bit better now though. She's taking food from my hand and has been out of her cage a few times without biting me, she just sits on my hand staring at me!!

Here's a few better pics of her though, she's getting braver now







My mum put this in her cage, i think its a little bowl or something She loves it anyway, she's asleep in it now!

awww she is absolutely adorable!

best of luck with her!

xx

very cute pictures

She looks so cute in this pic, but not sure if I would want one
Good luck with her. I hope you get her tame so you wont be bitten by her. Not much fun in that eh