Suggested gnawing items !

[Noodle]

Originally Posted by newcastlemam

Yer I use those croc dog chews and also the hedgehog ones Lola has a green one and my new unnamed hammie has an orange one I was also wondering are all the colours safe and are there any faves amonst the HC hammies

With the croc and hedgehog chews, the orange one's are a firm fave with all my hammies! They will go for the green ones but not as much, and they won't touch the yellow ones. As for colour safety, I'm unsure but just assumed they are all safe for rodent's as they're all sold on ratrations xx

[icklemunch]

Thanks for this post. Just got my jeffro some bonio milky bones....(tested em on my lab, he spat it straight out! Yep i have the only fussy lab in the whole world). Hurry up and wake up jeffro

[Stockannette]

Flower used to love to chew on cardboard food boxes. Carmelita seems to favor her wood barbell or the edge of a 'totally chewbular' tube... or a walnut shell (with walnut in it, of course).

[workerant]

Hi

Thanks for all the advice she is still gnawing the plastic wheel latest damage in photo ! To try and make her gnaw the biscuits and not just store them I have wedged it into her log so far it's working ! I have had to once again take her wheel away from her and just give her supervised wheel sessions ! She's like an unruly teenager at the mo albeit a very gentle non aggressive one!

[workerant]

That's her old cage in the background she is now in a box cage that I made as she was eating the plastic tubes in this one! Nibble nibble on everything ! Xx

[MissGSFL]

In the past I have given hamsters walnuts (in the shell), dried corn on the cobs, treat bars (the ones you hang up), dog treats, cat food boxes (the cardboard is very thick), egg boxes and grass hammocks to gnaw on instead of the bars.

The most popular was the grass hammock which was from Zooplus and dog treats.

I did have to take everything plastic away from one of my hamsters though, as he just would not stop gnawing.

[Kiki_3173]

I also just read today that you can wipe peanut butter on wooden chewtoys to try to get them interested in the toy. It says to put it on the toy & them basically wipe it back off...just to leave the hint of smell on it

[squishyhammy]

My syrian pasta loves his hedgehog dog treat thing it olonger stands hes chewed it so much XD he also has one of these TINY & NATURAL CHEESE - Hamster Products - Small Pet which is a non toxic chew bought by a friend from p@h he chews on that alot too