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Old 10-01-2020, 03:38 PM  
Ria P
House of Hamsters
 
Join Date: Mar 2019
Location: Wiltshire, UK
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Default Re: The next step...

I had a female Syrian foster hamster once who was lovely but a real stinker.

My dwarfs don't smell and need very little cleaning.
They are such bulldozing little burrowers that they tend to turn the substrate over themuselves so i can get a good sniff and replace a bit of iffy Kaytee with fresh when needed.

Mine have big one room houses but they have various sleeping places and have a habit of sleeping in quite odd places. I never really know where in the cage they are unless they're asleep in somewhere visible like a coconut or 99p oil burner or terracotta salt pig.

My little dwarf Edwina is a massive hoarder and has two big houses. One house she uses as a dry food store with an inch thick layer of millet seeds.

I don't think that a house with compartments would change their habits of sleeping in their selfmade burrows as well as in their houses sometimes.

My Syrians however sleep in their houses only and all three of them (one is a foster hamster) immediately moved in, made a nest and started a hoard.

My Robo uses his house like a porch to his underground world but never sleeps in it.

I'd say that dwarfs are less predictable in their habits and routines.
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