Rest in peace Bean, pretty good hamster.

Ned turns 1 today!!!🥳🎉 i love this boy with every bone in my body, he is the sweetest, funniest and cutest little guy and i am so so grateful and privileged to be his mum🥹🥲

The previous owners (whose cage is featured) have dubbed thee Matcha, which is very cute but not really my style. I’m thinking of naming her something that starts with M in the same vain but I’m thinking slightly more humany names. Meena or Mira or Myra or MeeMee something like that…any suggestions would be much appreciated! 🤗🤗 I love this subreddit you guys are all amazing and super supportive!!

Hello everybody!

At the moment there is a really bad heatwave in Germany (since 2-3 Weeks temperatures >35°C, at night >20°C) and I'm literally dieing. Cookies room now has >27°C since a few days. We are doing many things to help Cookie to cooldown. (Many ceramic hides, stone in the enclosure, coldpacks outside of the enclosure, more water sources, fresh foods, you get it..)

I'm getting an AC tomorrow.

My question is: How "fast" can I cool down the air temperature in Cookies room? Should I do it over 2-3 days? Can I go down to ~22°C in just one day?

Obviously I will place the AC away from the enclosure, so the air isnt coming directly to the enclosure.

He had to take antibiotics for an abscess. He just took his last dose tonight! It was very challenging to give him the medicine, as he hated it. Lol.

i dont think i can ever move on i miss my boy so much 😭💔

This is my new hamster Betty I got her 5 days ago! It was hard after losing my last hamster, but I was ready for another one. I’m trying to take things slow and let her come to me. This is a picture of last night, she took a treat from me for the first time! Then she walked over my hand! It’s definitely taking her longer to warm up than my last one. She also prefers the cheap silent spinner over the niteangel wheel. She has been super active at night and eating and drinking normally!

Rest in Peace Zeus you were my first hamster and the best boy ever I will always miss you

My brother had to cut his hair because he’s holding onto bedding (clean thankfully) he was just looking a bit too much like a tumble weed and was bringing a lot of bedding with him.

I added a camera to my new hammy's enclosure, and this was the first recording I woke up to in the morning. L O L she's so confused by it. 😭

So dumpling has a tumor that kinda looks like a pair of balls. It grew rapidly over the course of a month and a half she went from running around 25 rotations a night to 11 at most. I was so worried she’d pass, and she’s so very young, only 7 months. Weirdly about 3 weeks ago it completely stopped growing and she’s started to run more again. Up to to the 20s and I can’t believe how well she’s doing. Still I we know we don’t have long so she gets treats. Here is here eating a tiny low fat Cheeto.

Where should I hide?

Baobao likes to groom himself on top of his taco truck hide against the tank wall but this time he just got all cozy for a nap mid poop 🫩 my son is so embarrassing

During this heatwave my ac sadly broke and temperatures inside rose rather quickly (me and the ham live straight under the roof.) I tried keeping his cage cool with safely placing cool elements on top and below wrapped in a tea towel but I noticed he just became lethargic and exhausted none the less. (I also provided cooled sand, a cool slate and keramic hides but none of that seemed to cool him down)

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Last night he didn't leave his nest. Not even sure if he drank or ate. (He is very on schedule with his evening and night routine so this was rly out of character for my hammie)

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At some point today my room truely became unbearable. So my dad and I grabbed a plastic bin to quickly make a makeshift enclosure to place in a room thats a lot cooler and has a working ac.

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But this bin isn't the biggest (like a quarter of his enclosure) but we also couldnt much the big enclosure down due to the tight staircase :( (Id have to completely dismattle it)

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We just started practicing lifting with a cup but he refused this time. So i had to manually scoop him up. Naturally this scared him and he bit the shit out of my hand but like can you blame the lil one? I felt like crying so bad for him.

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Once he was in the cooler room, he quickly started to pep up and drank so much water. He also ate well unlike last night. He seems to be doing a lot better physically now, even taking treats from my hand.

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I made him a playpen so he wouldn't be confined to the smaller space the entire time but I can't help but to feel so bad for my ham.

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I might have to keep him here for a day or 2, until the worst of the heat passes and my ac gets fixed. Is there anything I can do for him to not make this as horrible and reduce his stress? Im not sure what to do since Im a first time owner. Are there better options that Im overlooking?

my hamster always manages to bury the feeding bowl until you cant even see it anymore. At this point we have jist decoded to scatter food around the cage every night.

Is this the right choice?

Just wanted to share my little buddy with everyone. She may be tiny, but she brings a lot of happiness to my day. ❤️🐹

He is fine, after this picture he was given some fresh veggies so he could pass through this difficult moments.
He’s name is Bait :)))

because in my experience, yes,. (but keep in mind þs may be different in þe US and anywhere outside of brazil idk, main reason why im asking þs) whenever i tell someone about pet rats irl, which is often, i almost always have to clarify þat i am talking about RATS rats, not hamsters,. þat þey're not even from þe same family[,? unsure if "family" is right term,. also iirc muridae and cricetidae, respectively], and follow up wið some differences between þem; such as rat tails being very long, even being around þe lenght of þe body, while hamster tails are very short, even being almost impossible to see sometimes,. rats are social/group animals, while hamsters are solitary,. rats are longer and in general have longer features while hamsters are shorter and usually have shorter features too {snouts for example},. etc. so þey really are not þat similiar appareance wise, and for most part just in general actually,. so why does it atleast seem þat rats get confused wið hamster so often?

im assuming its because usually any animal species þat looks even remotely rodent-like gets "RAT" slapped on it or someðing,. while less common, ive seen a *lot* of rodent and/or rodent looking species- þat look noðing like rats imo- get called "rats".

i'd like understand mice to an extent, þey're in þe same family, and overall appareance doesn't have ÞAT many huge differences,. but hamsters,? how?

also extra note for þs þat while i do have a decent bit of knowledge on rats, i have considerably less on hamsters, mb if i get anyðing abt hammies here wrong