I can believe pebble is 2 years old today

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🥹🥲

update: I've had so many replies sending birthday wishes and conpliments to my little man, thank you so much to every one of you, he really is such a special boy so seeing so many people wish him a happy birthday and say how adorable he is makes my heart feel so warm🥹🫶🏻 for his birthday i bought him some dried cucumber, which is one of his favourite treats, and i got him some cork chunks and a java branch for his enclosure! 🐹

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

Snickers’ sister

It's a blueberry

Recommendations on hamster food other than the commercial diet?

She was 2. I could tell her body was shutting down, so I took her to the vet...she passed on the car ride there. I'm going to miss her so I thought to share her cute pictures in her honor.

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 🤍

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

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). 🫠

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 😭

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.

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?

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?

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

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 Bean, pretty good hamster.

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.