Browsing Archive: December, 2009

Feeding 2

Posted by on Friday, December 11, 2009,
Extra Vitamins
To make sure your hamster gets the vitamins it needs, you can buy vitamin drops for animals at the pet store.

Water
Never leave your hamster without fresh water to drink. It is wrong to think it can go without because it is a desert animal. In the desert, hamster drink the morning dew and find water in water-storing plants.

Fruit
You can feed pieces of apple, pear, grape, and tomato, all in small amounts only. But fruit decays quickly, and if a hamster eats bad fruit it well be ill....

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Feeding 1

Posted by on Tuesday, December 8, 2009,
Hamsters eat seeds, grains and nuts, vegetables, and a little fruit.

Hamster mix
Hamster mix is sold in pet store. It is specially prepared to provide a hamster with a well-balanced diet of its essential foods - grains, seeds, and nuts.

Vegetables
Both root and green vegetables should be given, always raw.

Give fresh water every day.

How often should a hamster be fed?
Feed your hamster once a day, in the late afternoon or evening.

How much food does it need?
Give a small handful of hamster mix and a s...

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Taking the hamster home

Posted by on Sunday, December 6, 2009,
Before getting your hamster, wash the cage with a few drops of mild disinfectant in water. Rinse amd dry it well.

Cover the cage floor with a deep layer of sawdust and throw in a small heap of nesting material - hay, white paper, cotton material, and cardboard. Put a little in the nesting box to encourage your hamster to make its nest there.

Lastly, put some food in the cage and set up the drip-feed water bottle. Put in the gnawing wood, the exercise wheel and perhaps a cardboard roller for you...

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Things you will need

Posted by on Friday, December 4, 2009,
Checklist

 - Cage
 - Nesting box
 - Exercise wheel
 - Coarse sawdust or pine bedding
 - Nesting materials:
    > hay      
    > white paper
    > cotton rags
    > cardboard
 - Food dishes
 - Drip-feed water bottle
 - Food:
    > packet hamster mix
    > vegetables
 - Small branch or piece of hardwood for gnawing on

The cage

Pet stores stock various types of cages, or yo may want to build your own.  Your hamster is going to spend all its life in the cage you provide for it, so choose carefully.

How big sh...
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