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04-10-2018, 01:14 PM
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Adult Hamster
Join Date: Feb 2015
Location: Yorkshire
Posts: 369
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Secret gym boy...?
So Edison has had an appropriate 28cm trixie wheel since he came to live with us but has almost never used it in our presence.
His vivarium is in the living room so I don't wake up to the pitter patter of him running.
I had wondered whether he ran the typical hamster mileage at all but was reluctant to fit a bicycle computer through fear he would pouch the necessary magnet and get sick.
Over the past few weeks, non-Edison related things have had me awake at 2am ish numerous times. Whenever I've gone through the living room at this time he's sat in his wheel, looking guilty but not running...
He won't run in the presence of his humans. He's started to beef out(he had been getting chubby, but now he feels muscly). I am curious if any other hams exercise in secret... It's like those people who go to the gym at 3am so no one sees them. (fyi, I am aware hamsters are nocturnal, but he comes out early evening but doesn't run, even with encouragement).
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04-10-2018, 11:24 PM
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Dwarf whisperer
Join Date: May 2014
Location: Wales UK
Posts: 24,789
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Re: Secret gym boy...?
Sounds a bit like my little Tinwë! He really doesn't like to run in the wheel when I'm around at all. I have had other hams who were happy enough to fun in the wheel a bit during the day or early evening but would wait until the lights were out to really have a good long run.
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04-10-2018, 11:35 PM
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Hamster Antics
Join Date: Sep 2014
Posts: 23,533
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Re: Secret gym boy...?
I think it's fairly normal for adult male syrians in my short experience! Charlie only used his wheel in our presence when we first got him and it was a novelty. Once he got teenage hormones he stayed in bed and only used it during the night Newt the same really.
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04-11-2018, 07:30 AM
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#4
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Adult Hamster
Join Date: Feb 2015
Location: Yorkshire
Posts: 369
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Re: Secret gym boy...?
Phew. Thanks guys. I've not had a male Syrian since I was a child. Dali was female and would give mo Farrah a race, day or night. Glad he's no more odd that I already thought he was.
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04-12-2018, 12:00 PM
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PM Fluffy for custom title
Join Date: Jan 2016
Location: Hertfordshire - UK
Posts: 3,190
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Re: Secret gym boy...?
I haven’t seen Oliver (hybrid dwarf) use his wheel in months. I don’t see him out exploring much either.
Murphy (robo) is normally on his wheel most of the time he is awake.
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