Browsing Archive: October, 2009

Understanding Hamsters

Posted by on Thursday, October 22, 2009,
To understand your hamster better, you need to know a little about how it would live if it were wild.

Golden hamsters come from hot desert lands, where they burrow under the ground to shelter from the heat of the sun during the daytime, and only came out to look for their food when it is cool in the evening.  That is why your hamster sleeps during the day, and is awake and busy at night.

Food is hard to find in the desert.  A wild hamster would travel far from its burrow, searching in the sand ...

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Hamster as Pets

Posted by on Thursday, October 22, 2009,
If you have kept a pet before, a hamster is one of the best with which to start.Hamsters are gentle and good-tempered, and when handled kindly and patiently soon lose any fear of people, and become very tame.

If you decide to keep a hamster, you will need to buy or make a cage for it, but other that it will cost very little to feed and look after.  Its cage will be easy to clean, and it will not take up much space.

Some people think that hamsters are not such good pets because they sleep most o...

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