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Skye Hamsters · 03-26-2020, 10:19 AM

I can't think of anything super new that changed. I did a good clean of the parts of the cage he burrows in and added a buried box for him to hide in about a week before he started acting like this. He's never reacted to cage cleans before, even when I upgraded him from the cage he came in to his current bin cage.

My friend did come over maybe 3 days before this started and I caught him tapping on the side of the bin like a five year old at the zoo where my hamster was sleeping in his box trying to wake him up, so maybe he had a slightly delayed reaction to that. He's definitely still eating throughout the day/night which is good. I can hear him since I'm home all day due to the corona virus stay at home order. He doesn't drink all day but then chugs water for a very long time once he's sure I'm gone. I need to clean his cage soon so at some point he's going to have to come out and I'll check him again then.

03-26-2020, 10:19 AM
Skye Hamsters Newborn Pup Join Date: Mar 2020 Posts: 2	Re: Senior hamster suddenly afraid, wont come out of burrow I can't think of anything super new that changed. I did a good clean of the parts of the cage he burrows in and added a buried box for him to hide in about a week before he started acting like this. He's never reacted to cage cleans before, even when I upgraded him from the cage he came in to his current bin cage. My friend did come over maybe 3 days before this started and I caught him tapping on the side of the bin like a five year old at the zoo where my hamster was sleeping in his box trying to wake him up, so maybe he had a slightly delayed reaction to that. He's definitely still eating throughout the day/night which is good. I can hear him since I'm home all day due to the corona virus stay at home order. He doesn't drink all day but then chugs water for a very long time once he's sure I'm gone. I need to clean his cage soon so at some point he's going to have to come out and I'll check him again then.