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cookietiger · 02-10-2019, 02:14 PM

Hi. I have a roborovski who is a year old and I'll have had her a year in march.
She isn't very tame (partly my fault for not putting enough effort in). She doesn't like being held but she'll let me touch her or occasionally stroke her when she's distracted by food.
The past couple of months she's become quite interested in my hand whenever I put it in the cage. She will follow my hand around the cage and go up to it before wimping out and running away and coming back but running away before getting too close. Today she finally came close enough to my hand to touch me and she tried eating my hand. I rewashed my hands just to make sure there wasn't any food on my hand still but she still tried to eat my finger. (My soap doesn't have a particular scent except the smell of soap).
Does she just think I'm edible or is there another reason?
Is there a way to stop her trying to eat me?

02-10-2019, 02:14 PM
cookietiger Hamster Pup Join Date: Jul 2015 Location: Reading, UK Posts: 161	How to stop a hamster thinking you're edible? Hi. I have a roborovski who is a year old and I'll have had her a year in march. She isn't very tame (partly my fault for not putting enough effort in). She doesn't like being held but she'll let me touch her or occasionally stroke her when she's distracted by food. The past couple of months she's become quite interested in my hand whenever I put it in the cage. She will follow my hand around the cage and go up to it before wimping out and running away and coming back but running away before getting too close. Today she finally came close enough to my hand to touch me and she tried eating my hand. I rewashed my hands just to make sure there wasn't any food on my hand still but she still tried to eat my finger. (My soap doesn't have a particular scent except the smell of soap). Does she just think I'm edible or is there another reason? Is there a way to stop her trying to eat me?