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Old 11-01-2011, 01:37 PM  
neilsmith
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Default Should Hamsters be kept where the lights are on at night

We have had our hamster in the Living Room at first but with the dark nights the lights are all on from 4 in the afternoon till we go to bed around midnight or after-could this be why the hamster doesnt leave its nest(unless we get her out ourselves)until we've turned off the lights and gone to bed-do hamsters not like bright electric lights been on?
Would it be best to keep her cage in the dark of our bedroom until we go to bed and then move her into our living room when we go to bed-otherwise we couldnt sleep if the hamster was using its wheel.
We keep the cage in the bedroom by day now & on the evening around nine move the robo into the living room-but she doesnt come out of the nest unless we take her out the nest to handle her-but shes very sleepy still & falls off to sleep on me so perhaps its best to leave the cage in the bedroom until bedtime where its dark and quiet & handle her in there with just a very dim light on.
I know most people keep their hamsters in the living room all the time without moving them-but how do they get on if the lights are all on-do their hamsters just stay in their nests cause of the lights on at night?
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