Hamster Care

Sorry, but you can't make a hamster carrier! You can put them in a shoe box for short term but they can easily escape. The best thing to do is to buy them a plastic and wire carrier from the petstore. Though If you need a quickfix it should be okay in a shoebox, but keep a huge eye on it!

You should not feed your Syrian hamster more than ten grams of food a day. Be sure to remove old food from the cage every night.

At least 4 weeks, you need to make sure that they are eating and drinking on there own!

Well, if allowed to sit, urine will start forming ammonia. Ammonis fumes are harmful to all people. But, you should change the baby long before fumes would be an issue. A baby needs to be changed at least every four hours, but it is worth checking ever hour. They can easily get diaper rash and yeast infections if they are allowed to remain wet.

I would not sedate a tiny animal without the help of a vet even with herbals. However, hamster's teeth grow continually, so they must always have hard things to chew on. Their food mix should have hard kibble and seeds in the shell in it, or give them wood hamster toys from a pet store.

You should always educate yourself about an animal's behavior before you bring one home. This will prevent the animal being treated unfairly. If your hamster is keeping you up at night, it probably has more to do with his environment than a need to be sedated. They are nocturnal creatures. If you have it in a wire or plastic cage, it is probably hanging off of the sides and chewing. You can prevent this by moving him into a glass aquarium with tall sides and a wire mesh lid. The tall sides will prevent him from climbing up on his toys and chewing the rim. If it is his running in a squeaky wheel, look in your pet store for the silent alternatives. The old fashioned metal ones will eventually all squeak. Also, look into investing in glass and metal water bottles instead of plastic. This will also do away with chewing noises. Be sure the hamster has wood pieces to chew on. You can pick these up at the pet store. I give our old cardboard oatmeal boxes and such when are done with them. This keeps their teeth worn down. If you assess the situation and try to figure out a solution, then you AND your pet can both be happier.

yes hamsters can eat dandelions but you musent feed them the heads so just the stalks and leaves.this is because hamsters cant chew the heads properly and they could choke!

This is really bad. Your hamster might have wet tail. During wet tail, your hamster isn't active, has a wet bottom/tail, and MIGHT lose fur and have diarrhea. The eye part I don't know, but you can't deal with this by yourself. Go to the vet!

The activity of a hamster is the key sign of how healthy your hamster is.

Yes, hamsters can eat guava in moderation. This fruit is safe for them and can provide some nutritional benefits, such as vitamins C and A. However, due to its sugar content, it should only be offered as an occasional treat rather than a regular part of their diet. Always ensure that any fruit is chopped into small, manageable pieces to prevent choking.

If your hamster is active both day and night, it may indicate that it is not getting enough stimulation during its awake hours or that it is exhibiting atypical behavior. Hamsters are generally nocturnal, so consistent daytime activity could signal stress, boredom, or health issues. It's important to ensure your hamster has a stimulating environment with toys and activities to engage with. If unusual behavior persists, consider consulting a veterinarian for further evaluation.

I am married to a narcissist, a high percentage will not admit that they have a problem like this. The best thing to do is to find one and just talk to them. Keeping in mind the disorder fact that the behavior and thought patterns are mainly of a 6 year old. I struggled for 12 years and just found out why he never acted like he loved me.

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Yes, I would be willing to answer a few questions. What the contributer above says about the behavior and thought patterns of a narcissist being mainly of a 6 year old is basically true - there is a maturation process that most narcissists seemed to have skipped. I'm not sure if there is a typical narcissist, some use rage, others use passive aggression, and some use both tactics to control, and control is what it is all about for a narcissist. Let me explain a typical relationship scenerio for me. I would meet someone and I would immediately fall in love(?) and it would be so wonderful and I just knew that the relationship was going to last forever. I loved being in love, I mean "in attention", at first because the feeling was so blissful and it gave me such a high, and most of all it was, "oh this person finds ME so attractive and so wonderful and yes how can she help but not too, because, HELLO EVERYONE, I am attractive and wonderful. I was a peacock in full color, strutting around, being soooo nice, doing everything I could possibly do to "show off " this wonderful, wonderful person who I thought I was. And everyone actually thought I was totally wonderful, which just added fuel to to my over-inflated egocentric way of thinking of myself. I would even think of marriage during the first week of a relationship because I absolutely knew that my mate would certainly say "yes" - how could she resist such a wonderful proposal. Sometime's I would pop the question just to see and sure enough the answer was more often the not a yes, or at least a tenetive yes. God, what total a jerk I was to do something like that. Then, as all relationships go, the shine would start to wear off and things would settle down to real life and that's when I would become scared that the relationship was ending and with it the feeling of being omnipotent. I would panic and do weird things to take control so I wouldn't lose my source of narcissistic suppy. I would disappear for a few days to make her chase after me so I could hear that she still cared. After I wore that tactic to the ground, I would do other passive aggressive things or initiate little fights again to get a reaction to see if she still cared. And on and on and on. The thing narcissists don't realize is that if you think you are "right on" ALL the time then someone else is "left out". The result is that there are a lot of lonely narcissists in this world, because most people with even a the slightest amount of self respect would not put up with behavior like that for long. (Are you listening?) There's much more to the narcissist story, and there are ways that you can bring them to their knees, but why would you want to bother? I realize that I am a narcissist. I would like not to be. There is no magic pill that a person can take to change narcissistic behavior. If you have a question you would like to ask, I will do my best to answer.

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I am pleased that someone is this honest out there! Just reading this has helped me understand that I am not alone struggling with a N. Your description of relationships is entirely my experience with my narcissistic partner (though he is a lot more severe!) - the whole destroying it before it destroys me tactic has completely worn me out emotionally! A year in and I just can't take any more of it. He is constantly saying things like "well, if I'm not good enough for you"... if I criticise him in any way it's such an attack on his fragile ego that he sulks for days. It's always me who has to piece things back together. I'm all out of positivity! I can't keep putting positive spins on everything and do everything to make a relationship work. I feel like I'm bashing my head against a brick wall.

What do you do with relationships now? Can you control this behaviour?

Answer: To the woman above from the narcissist above

I haven't been in a relationship in over 6 years and this is significant because I have been married 3 times, I have been in a live-in relationship with 3 other women plus I have had numerous other relationships. Interestingly enough, I always felt that it was the other person who was responsible for the breakup. Unlucky at love I suppose. I know to have felt that way was entirely untrue. Knowing what I know now about myself and narcissism, I still wouldn't place any bets on how sucessful I would be a new relationship. Think of the narcissist who is clueless about themself. Asking them to try to control their behavior would be like asking them to change the color of their eyes. If you are in a relationship with a narcissist and a problem arises, the narcissist will almost always feel that the other person is deficient and therefore they will feel totally justified in acting the way they do towards you. The narcissist will want you to fix the problem so they will no longer have to act that way, and if you don't fix it, it's too bad for you if you have to suffer. They are right, you are wrong, so why do they have to trouble themselves for your inadequacies. My advise, if you haven't already done so, is to run from this person as if your hair was on fire!

"and there are ways that you can bring them to their knees, but why would you want to bother?" - I do....:)

So, how do I bring them to their knees?:)

Thank you anyway, you are wonderful!

Hamsters can eat parsnips, but there's a good chance that if you try to feed it to your hamster, it won't eat it.

Just clean it out.

You cannot tell weather a caterpillar is male or female.

leave the cage alone and get a penciland try to push the food out of its mouth and just feed the hamsters mushy food