Russian dwarf hamster stopped exercising
Hi everybody. I am new to this forum.
I subscribed because I have a problem I don't find an answer to online.
I adopted a female Russian dwarf hamster a few months ago. Apparently she had already been pregnant several times before. I don't know her age.
When I came home with her I noticed that she had a hunched back, but I didn't give it much thought, I assumed it was some malformation that she was born with.
The problem now is that she practically stopped exercising. It started when the weather got very hot (and I did everything I could to cool her down). But now the weather has been normal for a week or two, and she still doesn't exercise. She's still eating well (in fact she was already overweight before and I'm afraid she's gaining even more weight now), and she looks fine to me (eyes, skin), she can still climb on stuff.
Do you think these are signs of her being old? That she has arthritis? Or could it be something else?
I am really worried and I will be very grateful to everybody who takes time to read and answer to this post. <3
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