Hi,
My 6 year old son got a male Syrian hamster last week, we were given some advice from the worker at Pets at Home, where we got the hamster from, and we were told not to lift/touch or remove the hamster from its cage for a week to give it time to adjust to its new surroundings.
We have now had our hamster for 8 days and we cannot get him to come out of his home. He appears terrified of us, he will poke his nose out of his house and dash back in again whenever we introduce our hand to the cage or speak to him.
He is only coming out of hiding at night and storing his food in his house and not coming out again, he also has not been on his wheel inside his cage. I have cleaned out the area where he is toieting but would like to get him out into the exercise ball and play pen that we have for him but don’t want to just remove him from his house which might upset and scare him, I also don’t want my son to see him biting and become scared of him.
Is this normal for new hamsters? He is around the age of 6-8 weeks.
Can someone please offer me advice, thanks
