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Old 04-10-2015, 11:33 AM   #11
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Yes I'm not up to philosophising about conscious and sub-conscious memory with a temperature lol!
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Old 04-10-2015, 12:37 PM   #12
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I'm 100% disease free and I can't parse the hamster psyche either!

Though i think Cc remembered my mum from Christmas time because she was down straight away to see her and get treats when we visited last week and usually she's v wary of new people. She hides from my sister who didnt take much to do with her last time! Somehow though she can't remember that the door opening (which happens every day) doesn't mean instant death and she doesn't have to hide. Hmmmmm.
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Old 04-10-2015, 05:51 PM   #13
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Yes I know what you mean - Charlie hates the living room door opening and closing too. Or anyone moving around the room. Sensible I suppose - someone might forget he was there and it must be instinctive to want to protect themselves. He doesn't seem to mind me moving round the room but he hates anyone else doing it.
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Old 04-12-2015, 04:22 AM   #14
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Yup they have a sophisticated plan in their heads of where stuff is, I saw it on the internet about hamsters in the wild. I think roaming creatures have to. They back it up with scent marks but they know where stuff is too. Willow free ranges a lot and she always always goes to the same spots where she likes to try and make nests and burrows, and then she returns to those spots when she is in her ball. She always checks out the dwarfs cages too but I think that's probably a smell thing. She also had a strong reaction to a tube I took out of her cage as it didn't fit with her new set up, she had had it in her cage since she was a baby as her toy, she hadn't seen it for several months and it had been cleaned and she went up to it all soft and making clicking 'that's my best toy' noises and rubbed herself all over it. She also did that when I let her walk on the roof of her old cage before I sold it, but it probably still smelt a bit of her and her previous owner despite having a good clean so that could have been a smell thing. I would love to know if she remembers her owner as they did have a bond.
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Old 04-12-2015, 11:44 AM   #15
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I think I'll reintroduce Charlie's little rainbow bridge then - he had that from being a baby but I had no room for it any more so took it out. He wasn't happy but it was better than the freaks he had if I ever moved it. Now where could I put it?
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Old 04-12-2015, 12:05 PM   #16
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Ha, aren't they sweet the way everything has to stay the same! That's the trouble, there just isn't enough room for everything in one cage, especially with a Syrian!
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