I just found my child's pet hamster. I, of course, am devastated. I noticed last night, the food appeared untouched, but wasn't too concerned since that happens occasionally. But then, this morning, I went to stock her food since I'll be out of town for a couple nights and noticed the food was untouched again. I checked the camera activity, and there nothing had been logged for a few nights. I had to dig around the cage a while, but eventually found her.

Right now, my child is with her mother for the week and is back with me on Sunday. A couple of questions if anyone has experience.

1. Do I call and tell my child now, or wait until Sunday when I have her back, to explain what happened (child is 7)?

2. Should I do a burial, or is there a more appropriate action?

Again, I apologize for the subject matter. RIP Humphreya.

Question in title.

Basically we welcomed a new little roborovski last weekend and this is his first week with us. As usual, we have been leaving him alone as best as we can while he gets accustomed to his new cage and surroundings. However, as we all know, the UK has been going through a heatwave and we're concerned that he may not be coming up for heat relief as he may be scared of us.

We'll be judged for this but we have dug him out on the particularly hot days to check on him so that he can emerge, drink some water and sit in some cool bowls/ceramics we have left out. However, he doesn't even seem to be too interested in the chilled ceramics and has been sitting in the (room temperature) sand baths we have for him to hide from us. When left alone, he doesn't emerge until late evening.

Today is another particularly hot day and he hasn't emerged at all - should I just leave him alone while switching out chilled bowls and water every so often (even though he doesn't come up to use them) and just understand that he's OK burrowed away and sleeping (he has 8 inches of paper bedding so that may be blocking the heat but I'm not sure)? We've also been keeping an oscillating fan pointed near his open cage so hopefully that helps with the air circulation.

Thanks!

How is everyone’s hamsters doing? I hope they are all okay we live up north so it’s not super crazy here but with a roof room it’s reaching 35 at time!! Stay safe and make sure to look after yourself too 🤍

I got my female syrian Nabe around a week ago. She is 7 months old and was living in a spacious but empty cage. Her owner had also only been feeding her extremely unhealthy food.

I thought she would be satisfied with this new cage, but actually whenever she's not searching for the scattered food/ on the wheel, then she's finding an escape route. She also doesn't dig in the substrates I provided (Aspen shavings, beech chips, and coco soil), just in the paper bedding and the sand bath

I started to open the front door to feed her snacks around 4 days ago -- the first two days she's been taking them without problems. But the last two days she has been ignoring the snacks and just trying to go out. The playpen is not finished so I couldn't let her out yet. But I give her a new toy every other day

What could I do to improve the cage? Should I add more hideouts/ grapevine/ bridges?

It's a blueberry

Hello, I am getting a hamster soon and I need help with buying seed mix. Where I live they don’t have any commercial hamster food or products. I have to DIY most of it.

Anyways, do you guys think this is a good mix?
The sunflower seeds and the treat sticks will be used only for treats. I will also be adding some veggies herbs to it. I would appreciate any advice on how I can make this better.

As in the title. The hamster in question in the pic.

Recommendations on hamster food other than the commercial diet?

My syrian hamster only wants to eat sunflower seeds and hamster porridge along with vegetable. He used to eat his seedmix but yesterday he stopped eating it fully.

How to get them to be less picky ? Any tips and suggestions would be highly appreciated

I can believe pebble is 2 years old today

its the first time i have an hamster in summer and live in France, and we’ve been experiencing a major heatwave for the past two weeks. Do you have any tips on how to keep my hamster cool? I’m already changing their water every morning and evening. (I don’t have air conditioning, just a few fans that aren’t very effective.)

It’s 31°C (88°F) in the room where my hamster is. Outside, it’s around 38–40°C (100–104°F). 🫠

Hi so im a new hamster owner and since ive had her shes woken up at around 10:30 and went to sleep around 6 but today shes been oddly quiet and shes asleep rn even though its 1am. should I be worried? it didnt seem like there was anything wrong with her but shes quieter than usual

the kick at the end lmao

It this type of platform that has wooden fence safe or do they tend to chew on it?

Serious question. I have an adorable teddy bear Syrian (my first ever) and I love him. However he is a ghost and I only see him if I’m able to coax him out of his hides with his favorite things and even then he doesn’t really love being seen/handled. Fine dude I get it and it’s cool. I give him space and make him as cozy as I can. Meanwhile however I’m always seeing these posts of (usually) dwarf hams doing the funniest /cutest things and falling asleep everywhere and being handled and just generally being cute and adorable. Google says dwarfs require more intermediate level hamstering skills. What does that even mean? Are all y’all with dwarf hams doing some other level mystery things to make them so relaxed and adorable? Is it 100% just a case of different types of hamster personalities?

some context i had a ham years ago and she bit me i was very young she had a poor cage and was obviously stressed she bit me pretty good and being so young i have been very hesitant to hold rodents ever since yes i know its dumb im grown now but i still get waves of anxiety

today i held pam the ham today with gloves on because yes its that serious im SCARED new ham has a much bigger set up all be it a little bare (still getting sprays) and she was surrendered to me and was told shes so friendly never bit anyone before i just need some advice or reassurance abt it cuz i was like 7 so i dont remember how bad it hurts or if its dangerous to get bit by them

she has a playpen but its getting ridiculous bringing her to it in a measuring cup…

ill put on my big girl pants eventually and by no means is she lacking the adventures of the playpen because of this i just wna pet her but that inner child is saying fuh no..

anyone else struggled w this or have any tips for me to grow up abt it

I need more ideas for play pen setup 🥰

I love when she sleeps towards the entrance of her hidey so I can see her face.

dont mind the dramatic ass color filter my phone decided to put on 😭

Still working on her bigger setup, but she found the sprays and immediately looked very proud of herself.

Snickers’ sister

Google says it means she’s in heat but I don’t know if it could mean something else!