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AmityvilleHams · 10-04-2019, 07:29 AM

It's still not a good idea. They can easily start fighting again, and even if they're not fighting now there is the very big potential for stress. You definitely still need to split them up, even if they seem fine in this moment, because it is not safe for them to be housed together. You never know when something might go wrong, and it's not fair at all to the hamsters involved to be forced into an unnatural and stressful situation.

You say no harm is done, but unfortunately you're only easily seeing any potential bites and such. That doesn't necessarily reflect potential psychological trauma nor does it really show the serious harm chronic stress can do to your hamsters which isn't easily seen until illness is visible. Just because there's no physically visible signs doesn't mean it's a good idea to keep trying to keep them together, and I cannot stress enough the importance of separating them.

10-04-2019, 07:29 AM
AmityvilleHams PM Fluffy for custom title Join Date: Mar 2016 Posts: 4,545	Re: Separated hamsters fight It's still not a good idea. They can easily start fighting again, and even if they're not fighting now there is the very big potential for stress. You definitely still need to split them up, even if they seem fine in this moment, because it is not safe for them to be housed together. You never know when something might go wrong, and it's not fair at all to the hamsters involved to be forced into an unnatural and stressful situation. You say no harm is done, but unfortunately you're only easily seeing any potential bites and such. That doesn't necessarily reflect potential psychological trauma nor does it really show the serious harm chronic stress can do to your hamsters which isn't easily seen until illness is visible. Just because there's no physically visible signs doesn't mean it's a good idea to keep trying to keep them together, and I cannot stress enough the importance of separating them.