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Neddy Seagoon posted:Look at the guy behind the hamster I got it. But still.
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Stinky  edit: literally ten seconds after those photos  
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Jan 23, 2016 11:46
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Hamlet usually prefers to sleep with his eyes wide open, so for him to close them must mean he feels really safe and peaceful. And his cage is right next to my bed. It's really nice to be tucked into bed on a cold winter's night, boyfriend snoring gently and cat sound asleep at my feet, and get to watch a sleepy little pig fall asleep next to me. 
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Jan 23, 2016 16:38
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Ratta has decided he is tame already. Didn't really require any input from us.
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Jan 23, 2016 23:16
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It is offensive how cute he is goddammit
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Jan 23, 2016 23:29
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How did you win the ham lottery
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Jan 23, 2016 23:33
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Funny thing is he ended up in the rescue because no one wanted him. Apparently big ears, red eyes and white fur isn't a popular/cute combo according to the guys there.
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Jan 23, 2016 23:34
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Lunacy, those ears are majestic!
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Jan 23, 2016 23:39
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They are, aren't they.
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Jan 23, 2016 23:46
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Discount, Viscount of Hamsterdom.      She's ~5mo old, and fat. Very fat. Not entirely sure she is just fat vs pregs - she was alone in the Adoption bit of the pet shop but I don't know how long for. V  V
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Jan 24, 2016 19:50
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If you've had her for more than a week she's probably not pregnant.
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Jan 24, 2016 19:57
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Another beautiful new friend!!  Fingers crossed no inbred little beans! She does look like a chunky wee madam. She could just be chubby since they don't usually have wheels in the Syrian cages, not in my local p@h anyway. I'm surprised she got into that little pink house lol
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Jan 24, 2016 19:57
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Yeah she was in the Adoption Centre bit at P@H, with just a bowl of food, bottle of water and a little wooden bridge for her to crawl fatly across.Captain Invictus posted:If you've had her for more than a week she's probably not pregnant. I got her yesterday. Hoping for no hamlets!
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Rescue hamster 
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Jan 24, 2016 20:34
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My latest rescue hamster just bit me twice inside 5 seconds  10/10 would rescue again
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So many adorable rescues  Ratatoskr especially. Such an adorable face.Fraction- As someone who just went though having baby hams, here's hoping that she is just fat.
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I had a gentle squeeze of her belly today and I think (hope!) it's just  I want to start becoming Pals with the hamlet. What treats are particularly enticing? I know from ye olden memory that they tend to love sunflower seeds, but those are very fattening and will likely make her even more of a lump. She's not really ready to take treats from me just yet (she nibbled at a dried carrot biscuit thing I offered earlier, but quickly discarded it) but I wanna be Prepared. In thanks, I offer a christmas discount. Better late than never!  
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Jan 25, 2016 22:20
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Cc loves red pepper, she also likes carrots, broccolli, brussels sprouts, spinach, cooked rice and pasta, plain cooked chicken, none of which are fatty. I avoid shop bought treats, there all either so sugary or the biscuity ones are just ashy floury crap. If you pick the sunflower seeds out of her food (if you're using a museli) you can use those for treats and not be giving her additional fat in her diet?
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Ratta has started coming and waiting next to his door at 9.30pm every night until we let him out. If we aren't quick enough he starts chattering his teeth at us. I think he's planning on learning to BMX tomorrow.  Also his favourite treats are carrot and apple.
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Jan 25, 2016 23:48
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It really sucks that in the US we're having a problem with listeria in prebagged salads. They're awesome to feed my guinea pig, you get a fresh bag of 3-5 different veggies for a couple dollars and it's so much more cost effective than buying a head of romaine lettuce, red cabbage, radicchio, AND kale, etc and so much less wasted food that way. Apparently it is possible for guinea pigs, rabbits, etc to get listeria but I guess statistically it is extremely unlikely that I will buy an infected bag.
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Fraction posted:I had a gentle squeeze of her belly today and I think (hope!) it's just Fraction posted:I want to start becoming Pals with the hamlet. What treats are particularly enticing? I know from ye olden memory that they tend to love sunflower seeds, but those are very fattening and will likely make her even more of a lump. She's not really ready to take treats from me just yet (she nibbled at a dried carrot biscuit thing I offered earlier, but quickly discarded it) but I wanna be Prepared. I won Clover over with some freeze dried strawberry pieces, probably not the best for an already pudgy ham though. If you have access to an Asian market or a supermarket with good diversity, Bok Choy was another treat that my hams went crazy over. That and Broccoli. Runty has become very antisocial and skittish since she was moved into her own cage. I'm going to hopefully get her to warm up to people again. Hopefully this is just a phase as she gets used to being by herself in a cage.
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republicant posted:It really sucks that in the US we're having a problem with listeria in prebagged salads. They're awesome to feed my guinea pig, you get a fresh bag of 3-5 different veggies for a couple dollars and it's so much more cost effective than buying a head of romaine lettuce, red cabbage, radicchio, AND kale, etc and so much less wasted food that way. Apparently it is possible for guinea pigs, rabbits, etc to get listeria but I guess statistically it is extremely unlikely that I will buy an infected bag. Don't feed your pig romaine lettuce. I think kale is also sketchy. Too much calcium? I feed mine green leaf lettuce and bell pepper, mostly, with carrot and tomato as treats.
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Oh mine gets a huge variety of veggies. Butter lettuce, dandelion greens, arugula, swiss chard, cilantro, parsley, cucumber, cabbage, collards, carrots, celery, kale, radicchio, and the very occasional broccoli, spinach, apple, or a bit of orange. I've researched the calcium content of everything and make sure he doesn't get too much of any one thing. I kind of get a kick out of introducing him to as many different things as possible and keeping track of his likes and dislikes.
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Kale is a concern with the calcium but I never heard of an issue with Romaine. Sure you're not thinking of Iceberg which is just nutritionally void?
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It's been a while since I've had pigs but I thought romaine was ok and purple lettuce was bad and iceberg had the potential to give them diarrhea.
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Some people see more calcium in their pig's urine when they feed a lot of romaine but it seems pretty variable and lots of people use it as a staple with no problem. Green and red leaf lettuce are both fine as are butter lettuces. Iceburg is watery garbage. Guinealynx seems to have the most thorough chart of guinea safe veggies, although it can be sort of confusing with all the data.
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While we're on the topic, our chinchillas' normal diet is just these pellets and timothy hay. No health issues or anything, but I'm wondering if it could be better. Should I look into nutritional supplements? Maybe mix in some feed with a little more variety, as one Amazon reviewer points out, so they're not bored with it? We occasionally give them ham/gerbil/pig/chin treats, but I want my boys to be happy.
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teenytinymouse posted:Cc loves red pepper, she also likes carrots, broccolli, brussels sprouts, spinach, cooked rice and pasta, plain cooked chicken, none of which are fatty. I avoid shop bought treats, there all either so sugary or the biscuity ones are just ashy floury crap. Ooh forgot to check her food for sunflower seeds! Will do so tomorrow. Thanks for the heads up too. I hate the wheel that came with Discount's cage, and it's too small for her anyway. Are flying saucer wheels still considered best to get? They were for mice a few years ago. If so, what size - bigger the better I'm guessing but is there a too big?
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Fraction posted:Ooh forgot to check her food for sunflower seeds! Will do so tomorrow. Thanks for the heads up too. A full grown Syrian will probably need a 12" wheel or the 12" saucer is the general rule I've heard and it's p hard to fit a 12" saucer into a cage and leave much space for anything else but one isn't better than the other I don't think. I have the 12" Trixie wheel which is super cheap on zooplus. It's not silent but it's not as loud as most wheels, I get the occasional rattle.
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Seconding the trixie wheel. Cheap, good sized and reasonably quiet. Easy to clean also.
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pksage posted:While we're on the topic, our chinchillas' normal diet is just these pellets and timothy hay. No health issues or anything, but I'm wondering if it could be better. Should I look into nutritional supplements? Maybe mix in some feed with a little more variety, as one Amazon reviewer points out, so they're not bored with it? We occasionally give them ham/gerbil/pig/chin treats, but I want my boys to be happy. I feed my chinchillas Oxbow food and a mix of timothy/bluegrass hay from KMS Hayloft since my one super picky chin doesn't like to eat the stuff you can buy in bags in a pet store. They don't really get anything else besides an occasional treat and stuff to chew on like lava rocks and they haven't had any problems. They just had a vet checkup and everything was fine except for them being a little overweight. I've had Dexter for close to 7 years so he's around 8 and still chugging along just fine on that diet. That bag of Kaytee pellets you linked seems like it's full of a lot of extra crap they don't really need. When I was in college I brought Dex home on break and my parents gleefully piled in all the veggies they were used to giving the guinea pigs and were sad when Dex just looked at them like "wtf is this" 
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So I have a Dungarian hamster. Should she be housed with other hams or is she happy alone?
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Scooter_McCabe posted:So I have a Dungarian hamster. Should she be housed with other hams or is she happy alone? Perfectly happy alone. Keeping pairs or groups always risks fights and stress and if they're not same sex siblings they might just murder each other right off the bat. Congrats on new friend, post the new friend.
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teenytinymouse posted:Perfectly happy alone. Keeping pairs or groups always risks fights and stress and if they're not same sex siblings they might just murder each other right off the bat. Congrats on new friend, post the new friend. She likes raisins but not grapes. She also enjoys formulated mango drops.  Sometimes she is also interested in cheeseburgers.  Surprisingly her fat butt isn't that much a hindrance at climbing.  While her favorite method of getting around the cage is to burrow from her tree stump to either he food bowl or water, she occasionally comes to the surface to hang out. 
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 The eggbox is there to stop you climbing up that way Cc
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 Hamlet has no fear of cats and this cat seems to have no predatory instinct towards Hamlet. Hamlet is curious about the cat but the cat is somewhat wary/afraid and mostly disinterested like any self-respecting cat. Obviously I'm not going to let them play together or leave them in a position where Hamlet could get hurt, but it's nice to not have that tension you get when one pet constantly wants to kill the other.
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 Runty has made a lot of progress in the last week and a half. She is no longer afraid of us, though she still doesn't like to be picked up. Plus she has gotten really fluffy and soft
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Oh my gosh so cute! :3 It looks like my hamster Jack is on the way out. He has lost a lot of weight, isn't active at all and isn't eating. The vet reckoned that he wouldn't make it past February so that sucks. I still have antibiotics and antiseptic scrubs but at this point I'm wondering what would be best for him. I'm torn between treating him and trying to give him a little longer and letting him go. It sounds awful but it really upsets him to take the antibiotics and to be cleaned. I don't want to be selfish and stress him out or hurt him at this stage. And I don't want to put him in a situation where he is constantly in pain from treating the infection as his belly is very tender all the time now and hurts him. It's hard making the right choice if that makes sense? Has anyone else been in a similar situation?
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Oh my goodness, look at that wee face!!  Serenity Dove posted:Oh my gosh so cute! :3 I'm sorry, what a dreadful situation  you know him best and if you think it would be kinder to let him go than continue to stress him out then I don't think that's awful at all, it's a kindness. I think it's worse to wait too long to help them on their way, especially if they're in pain and they aren't going to recover
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Serenity Dove posted:Oh my gosh so cute! :3
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