I’d like to introduce you all to Artie. He’s a rescue we adopted 3.5 weeks ago (age unknown). His cheeks were huge when we got him which we assumed was down to not feeling safe enough to make a stash but it turns out he had an abscess on his mouth. He’s still on the baytril but not the metacam anymore. We only got out first two hamsters seven months ago and this is the first time we’ve had to give medicine so it’s been quite a learning curve!
He’s a very feisty little boy and he loves running on his wheel and his flying saucer for hours and hours. He’s very bitey, but we don’t know what sort of life he had before and he’s had the upheaval of being in the adoption centre for 3 weeks before then having to settle with us…plus trips to the vet and syringes stuck in his face so understandable I think
Anyway here are a couple of pictures of him when he arrived and before had his first sand bath!
