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Old 03-26-2020, 04:58 AM  
Petite
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Default Re: Hamster lockdown thread

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Originally Posted by Vierville View Post
Absolutely right. My hamsters all unanimously prefer fresh mealworms over dried ones. Their food mix contains dried mealworms which they eat but they go crazy for fresh mealworms.

By 'fresh' I mean 'live' , or more accurately 'very recently alive'. It is very strongly advisable to cut the worm's head off before giving it to your hamster. You can easily do this with a scissors. Mealworms have tiny but quite sharp and strong jaws and can bite a hamster in the mouth resulting in a wound and possible infection.
So have I got this right: I should buy the mealworms alive and cut their heads off?!!!!
I have a horror of small, squirmy things (spiders, beetles, earwigs, you name it) and don't think I could actually even handle a live mealworm, especially if I then had to decapitate it. That probably makes me a complete wimp, but much as I love Freya dearly (she's now been in her forever home for one week) I seriously think she may have to survive without her mealworms.
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