How to handle a hyperactive ww?

[Fofinha]

Hi, Anyone own a hyperactive winter white? Like awake during the day around 1pm - til now almost 5pm? Mcnulty been very active and chewing the bars, but whenever I stand front of her, she stops chewing and if I left starting chewing again. Her action normally if she wants to go out and play. Been putting her in her ball and running around for 30 mins or more and hoping she'll be tired and calm down.
But when I put her back, she run in her globe again up and down and back to the door and start chewing again.
Everytime I open the door she so excited and jump in the ball. Been doing that several times, ball then back - chew for ages, ball again and back again.
Wonder why she's not tired yet.

Now she's in her ball again and seem resting, but once I put her back, going to start asking out again.
She's not a bar chewer for sure.

Any way to keep her calm or make her tired and rest, she supposed to be asleep like Bubbles ( my other girl)

[Katty_Sheldon]

OK i know its a winter white, so the wheel is probably good enough for her - just please check if her back is straight like this "-" when she is running, not like "u" curve. Its probably straight and she is probably ok.
Some hamsters are simply like that...buy some toys or make some stuff from the toilet roll and rotate them so she has "new" toys every week. You can also make a playpen in the dry bathtub, closed, with some old towel in it so she can destroy it. Put also some toilet roll tubes and stuff in there, maybe also a wheel on a stand. Just be glad your hamster is not sleeping all day and night My hamster is not that active, but he also chews bars to let me know he is not really happy with being in the cage

[fluffymunchkins]

Unfortunately no, i don't own a active winterwhite, my boy is a lazy sod and barely makes the effort to get out of bed to see me

It does seem your little girl really likes playtime with you, shes probably learnt that if shes persistant enough in chewing the bars you'll give her what she wants.
Does she have a wheel? Like Katty said, check shes comfortable running on it, you could invest in a ball on a stand in her cage if she really loves ball time.

Also how big is her cage? It might be a sign she could do with an upgrade for more space for toys and running. You could get a plastic tank or glass tank to stop her bar chewing aswell.

[Fofinha]

She has a globe shape wheel attached to the cage. She loooooves it, I tried to put another normal wheel and made the globe not running, but she keeps going back to the globe and ignored the other wheel. Cage is medium size and has lots tunnel and den to play and run around. She just a very spoilt hamster and I'm just to weak to ignore or refuse her. she just know when I'm around.
She did learnt that part indeed.
Never chew the bar if I'm in the room next door. But whenever I turn on the light and passing again.
I need to learn ignore her a bit probably.

I have 2 opposite behavior hamster, One is super lazy, and one is super active
but even so both are really persistant to get what they want and just really know how.

[bunbury]

I have a similar problem.

My winter white hamster "Brownie" is quite fine relaxing in his cage and sleeping. He also has a wheel he loves, a huge cage (probably fit for 3 or 4 dwarf hamsters) and a lot of tubes.

The only thing that sometimes annoys my is that he seems unable to calm down when I handle him. He at first always climbs onto my hand when I put it in the cage and stays put until I lift him out. Once I have him out he will become more and more hyper by the second.
He won't sit still or eat food (if he sees food he will actually ignore it or quickly stuff it in his cheeks). He seems to need to explore everything he can and as soon as he's done with that he won't stop trying to escape to then explore further. It also doesn't depend on how long I have him out of his cage. He just gets more and more active.

Is there any way that I could use to calm him down that I haven't already tired? I've tried:

• extra exercise,
• feeding him outside the cage (since he mainly looks so peaceful when eating in his cage),
• gently holding him until he calms down (he won't calm down and just struggle up to the point where I feel that I need to let go since I'd otherwise hurt him) and
• petting him (seems pretty useless... especially since he won't sit still)

P.S.:
I am pretty sure that he isn't scared of me. He has bitten very rarely (twice in 7 months) when I put my hand in the cage and he was in a bad mood, but he never bites me when I have him out of the cage. He also never spits his food at me and he also never pees when he's out of the cage.