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Originally Posted by Panda's_mommy
Everyone should know hamsters are nocturnal, especially someone who wants to get one as a pet! Why would you get a pet you know is going to be active and noisy at night and early in the morning knowing that you may not get much sleep? Panda doesn't chew bars and his wheel isn't that loud but if he's on it when I'm about to go to bed I put my ear plugs in. I just don't get why you got a hamster and now you are all frustrated. They are nocturnal so you probably shouldn't own any noisy nocturnal animals!!!!!
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The OP has had hamsters before and so is presumably aware of how noisy a hamster going about its normal business is. There is a massive difference between a hamster running normally on its wheel and a hamster chewing on bars/rattling the outside of its cage. You simply cannot predict how noisy an individual hamster will be and to say that the OP should not have any noctunal pets simply because this individual hammy in this cage is causing problems is unfair.
OP you may not like tanks, but i was simply suggestng it because after trying to block off access to where sally was chewing along with any other discouragement i could think of... Swapping her into a glass tank was the only option. I could have saved a lot of time (and got a lot more sleep!) if i'd just accepted the inevitable a bit sooner.