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here you go https://youtu.be/UDIXZX5vXaw my favorite part is where she explains that she doesn’t want to say how much she paid for it, but then tries to play it off as a practical matter because prices for custom aquarium work are different in different places
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mrfart posted:Our hamster died very unexpected during the night. I posted here some time ago that she was very relax these days and sometimes remained still for a couple of minutes to be pet. She looked very relax and she didn’t seemed to have any health problems. She was a year and 4 months old and she came from a very nice guy who breeds hamsters correctly. I'm sorry about your loss. A year and a half isn't an absolutely unreasonable amount of time for a hamster to expire. She was definitely well into adulthood. Not really sure how stuff like obesity or chronic illness, cancer, etc manifest in little animals like these, but it's reasonable to imagine that many hamsters are just going to have shorter lifespans than others same as any other animal. It does appear like you kept her on hay which may have harbored some kind of respiratory illness, fungal issue, etc. It could be that she was struggling to breathe during the times that she was pausing frequently. Not sure how common or okay hay is as a bedding material in general or in your area, but it's definitely not something I'm used to. Keeping stuff like rabbits, I'd certainly feed them hay but not line an enclosure or hide box with it. I'm not bashing you for using hay (somebody please correct me if I'm wrong), it's just something I notice from your photo. It's also quite possible that she was simply winding down and getting old
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Feb 16, 2021 23:43
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Tias posted:What does it mean if a dwarf ham on occasion seems like it tries to dig out of it's cage? We keep coming up with new stuff to stimulate her, and she's largely content - so I'm mostly just worried if she wants to escape or if it's regular 'wow I saw a human' spazz. How big’s the surface area of the cage?
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Feb 20, 2021 14:21
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Kaiser Mazoku posted:Half our pigs love being scratched on the chin while the other half hate it. One would even politely push your finger away with his paw. are humans a monoculture? it’s funny that we simultaneously expect our pets to have unique personalities and preferences and also be mostly alike
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Mar 16, 2021 02:43
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mrfart posted:Weird how hamsters can have completely different characters. We have two brothers now. Rod is very calm, doesn’t run much and wants to sit on your hand while eating. He does, however, want to sleep by himself. Todd is very mouselike, he could charge a Tesla with the energy he creates in his wheels. He’s easy to pick up, but then can sit still for a second. He likes to go sleep next to his brother and seems oblivious when that guy tells him to go somewhere else. You sure the “prefers to sleep alone/prefers to sleep with brother” stuff isn’t just normal dominance/pecking order behavior?
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Apr 12, 2021 14:07
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Kaiser Mazoku posted:Having one of our pigs put down. He's 8+ years old, blind, going deaf, and can't move his legs anymore. I'm not sure if it's accurate to say that we're "putting him out of his misery" since he still eats and drinks (though we do have to practically shove it in his face to get him to realize it's there). I was under the impression that guinea pigs stop eating and drinking when they're not feeling well, so...maybe he doesn't realize that he should be miserable right now? idk have you read his will? maybe he prefers hospice (I’m sorry for your loss).
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Apr 17, 2021 22:01
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Kaiser Mazoku posted:Follow-up: We ended up not putting him down since it's a bitch to get in with the vet right now and we figured he'd go naturally soon anyway. I would watch the gently caress out of Guinea Pig Hospice (coming to Netflix in spring of 2022)
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May 8, 2021 00:05
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mrfart posted:Sorry, I got that house with a cage I bought at a flee market. not to be “that guy” but I always err on the side of “breeders don’t know poo poo, they never know poo poo, and they’ll say and think up anything to 1) sell you an animal 2) make sense of all of the specific operating procedures and habits that they’ve picked up over the years and that ‘work’ by their specific standards and needs, 3) if something sounds too good to be true, species-wise or otherwise, it most certainly is”
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May 15, 2021 01:10
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Pasketti posted:
sounds like you should keep him away from the internet or put him all over the internet and build him a fandom not really sure which
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May 28, 2021 18:29
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pig into human feet, so what
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May 29, 2021 17:03
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Party Boat posted:When we had the pigs we used to keep a few small metal weight plates in the fridge / freezer and distribute them through the cage as little heat sinks. Probably not very efficient but they seemed happy with them I just keep my rabbits air-conditioned  (my ex and I used to keep the trio that we shared/she kept without it, and I will never never never make that mistake again. they're so much less clean in the heat)
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Jun 27, 2021 19:14
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mrfart posted:So Rod had a little crust on his back last week. It got bigger, and then it came off and was red and we decided to go to the vet. Oh no! Are they scabies? Can they get on you? My family once had a scabies scare when I was a teen (turns out my sister’s just really, really allergic to poison ivy) and it was miserable. We had to turn the entire house over and launder every textile possible
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Jul 5, 2021 21:22
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Pants Donkey posted:I am a loving idiot and bought detergent two months ago, but it was fabric softener in a similar looking green jug as what I normally buy. So for the past two months their blankets have gotten no detergent at all, and like a giant helping of fabric softener. I didn’t notice much until recently, when visible piss stains were showing up everywhere. I thought the blankets may have just been getting old, and that’s when I noticed my mistake I don’t understand, why would detergent be the determining factor in whether or not your pigs were sitting in their pooled up waste?
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Oct 26, 2021 00:36
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Cowslips Warren posted:Rodents don't live long enough. rabbits are like guinea pigs that live 1.5-2x as long I’m terribly sorry for your loss and also come join us in the dark side (it’s dark because rabbits like to be underground)
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Oct 28, 2021 05:13
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Pants Donkey posted:Is there a way to lessen a pig loitering at their hay? One of my boys loves nothing more than to park his rump right next to the hay bin and sleep or chill right on top of the pile of hay they grab but don’t eat. This makes it a gross mix of hay, piss, and feces by the time I get home from work. Do they have a dig box/soft place to sleep?
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Oct 29, 2021 21:43
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Pants Donkey posted:Their hay is attached to the side, they just love to take a piece, eat maybe half, drop it, and repeat. blankets lining the cage is different from having a litter box or hide box with material to snuggle and nest into
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Oct 30, 2021 00:37
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Obnoxipus posted:my fiancee and i recently got a syrian hamster; she's ridiculously cute and we have one of those big enclosures with ramps and lots of toys, places to hide, etc., but she does keep chewing on the bars. we bring her out of the enclosure to play in a big playpen, and she seems to have a nice time with that, but we're worried about the bar-chewing. she definitely has lots of sticks and wooden toys and stuff that she can (and will) chew on, but she'll keep going to her favorite corner of the cage and just gnawing the bars. is there something that we should be doing? how do we tell if she's actually super stressed and trying to let us know? have you considered a naturalistic bioactive hamster setup? its probably fine
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Nov 3, 2021 23:23
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Cowslips Warren posted:Another foster in the cat rescue asked if anyone wanted hamsters/could take two. I said sure, I got the room. And was given two dwarf hamsters (they are rather stressed right now so no pics) and two insane metal cages with all the plastic tubes that arch all over the place. I was hoping to put one in Butter's old cage, but the bars are wide enough either can slip through. naturalistic 👏🏼 bioactive 👏🏼 hamster 👏🏼 build 👏🏼
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Nov 12, 2021 06:00
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mrfart posted:They’re advising people not to kiss their rodents. Do people do that? have you met a child?
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Cowslips Warren posted:because Black Forest Ham 
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Jan 19, 2022 06:35
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Sirotan posted:Yeah it kinda sucks but I think sometimes it is completely unavoidable. I've had the new pig for 3 months now and I didn't notice any signs of lice for the first two months I had her. I'm sure the foster I got her from had no clue either. Yeah do not dust DE on any animal with lungs or eyes or mucosae, like wtf lol
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Captain Invictus posted:ah good, first we made killer bees, then we made killer hams it actually makes perfect sense that reducing/eliminating sensitivity to chemical social signaling in social hamsters would destroy normal sex-specific social interactions/sex-specific behavior and also make individuals super aggressive as a result. Pretty much the same thing happens in mice when you knockout/knockdown VNO signaling and make them unable to process pheromones/scent markers/etc. It’s a pretty formative/famous line of ongoing work in that area of neurogenetics, I’m surprised it seemingly wasn’t on their radar here.
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May 29, 2022 06:23
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Neddy Seagoon posted:This is how we inevitably get Rage Zombies.... Furty-eight Days Later
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Darth TNT posted:This was also the gooniest hamster I've ever seen, his personal hygiene was really bad. Peed everywhere, where they normally pick a safe spot in the corner. Pooped everywhere. sounds like he had problems sure there’s a degree of individual personality variation among any mammal, and just like with humans some hamsters are gonna be cleaner/more social than others, etc, but big disruptions or deviations in major areas like grooming or bathrooming behavior are good evidence of underlying issues like if an animal that should be fastidiously grooming itself isn’t, or avoids certain areas or doesn’t seem to be able to reach them, it can be a sign of neurological or pain or mobility issues and so-forth. Likewise, if an animal that should have well-defined bathroom habits is pissing and making GBS threads everywhere then it can be a sign of severe stress, or arthritis, or of incontinence issues stemming from a spinal/nerve injury (usually from being improperly handled by a human) or illness/tumor/parasite. Incontinence due to injury is actually super common in small mammals, particularly if they’re kept by kids, and usually goes undiagnosed and treated as a normal part of an animal’s personality or expected behavior. Speaking from rabbit world, a lot of rabbits that get labeled “impossible to litter train” and “territorial” are actually handicapped. I’m not saying this to blame/shame you or your family, or accuse anybody of improperly caring for your hamster or mistreating him. If anything it sounds like you went way above and beyond, getting him veterinary care which is something that many people would balk at for an animal as cheap and short-lived as a hamster. Just something you want to be mindful of for the future. An animal that’s ungroomed or noticeably dirty is often an animal that’s unwell. my condolences
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Pasketti posted:My pigs trio just had their annual checkup today, all are obnoxiously healthy. Except Ofelia had a treasure trove of disgusting ear wax that definitely wasn't there a week ago when I was playing with her ears. So now I gotta keep an eye on her ear goo on top of cleaning out Russer's poopy anal sack every few days wtf is an anal sack
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Cowslips Warren posted:poo poo, I'm sorry. I still miss Black Forest Ham. I don’t know that I could bear giving a being with such a short natural lifespan as a hamster such a clever name. I’d end up with like a line of them, Black Forest Ham the First, Black Forest Ham II, Black Forest Ham the Third, etc
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newts posted:The local shelter (well, next city over) has a price listed for a guinea pig neuter on their website, but they have a lot of poor customer reviews for their other animal neuters. I feel weird calling them interrogating some poor receptionist about their vets’ experience with small mammals. where do you live? In MA we have an SPCA wildlife center/sanctuary that also has an “odd pet vet” office that deals with exotics and livestock animals, and at rates way cheaper than exotics/small animal vets in the big city. It’s a bit of a drive but so far I’ve gotten four male rabbits neutered there (they don’t do spaying for small animals) and they do really excellent work for like a third of what it would cost me to do it elsewhere (like $300 vs $900, and they also used to do “bundle” pricing if you were bringing more than one in at once)
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newts posted:I live in Denver. If anyone knows someone… $500 isn’t terrible vs $250, but I don’t know your finances
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Treecko posted:So...this is how you sex a guinea pig. It’s difficult to sex rabbits that way without risking more serious injury to their gi tract, or especially their lower spine. once they start approaching the right age it’ll pop out plenty on its own, and also their little bozacks will descend and fill out. The issue is that they’re often sold/distributed/adopted/etc right before they hit that age
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newts posted:I’m happy to report that our guinea guy was neutered about 12 days ago and is doing well. The incest babies were born and are also doing well. They’ll go to the no-kill shelter when they’re weaned at 21 days or so. do we need to be worried about the little Targaryens?
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Sep 27, 2023 03:45
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Sirotan posted:Awesome news, glad he's doing ok. Those babies are sure drat cute too. yes, too bad they’re abominations in the eyes of the Lord
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Sep 27, 2023 04:09
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newts posted:They are hell yes 
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They’re all curly like their dad/uncle. A couple of them have extra toes, too.
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Neddy Seagoon posted:You should give them all rich and noble (ie inbred) names like Lord Charles Squeakson Esq. The Hapspig Dynasty
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Treecko posted:It's kind of gross, nobody wants to be known as the rodent dick toucher. never spent much time in farm country, have you
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Treecko posted:I've castrated lambs and docked tails, and been armpit deep inside a cow. oh lol you ever watch a chicken sexer at work? some ppl are rly good at palpating animal junk
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