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Old 04-14-2017, 01:49 PM   #11
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Male long haired hamsters can have extremely long fur!There's no guarantee of length with individual hamsters though.

As for maintenance,it shouldn't be difficult as long as you use a substrate that does not tangle in fur.That said,wood does tangle in fur,while Fitch and other paper substrates really don't!It wouldn't hurt to switch to Fitch regardless,being a cost effective superior substrate that is much safer than wood substrate with many benefits like never being capable of causing an allergic reaction(wood can,even if not immediately seen)
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Old 04-14-2017, 01:59 PM   #12
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Looks like black eyes and cream with white at the bottom and back sides and a strip of cinnamon down the back. Mushu's really cute, where'd you get him? I don't think Mushu's hair is going to get much longer.
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Old 04-14-2017, 10:29 PM   #13
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Think I will switch Mushu onto a paper or fitch substrate, because the woodchips are tangling in his fur already!
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Old 04-14-2017, 10:32 PM   #14
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Looks like black eyes and cream with white at the bottom and back sides and a strip of cinnamon down the back. Mushu's really cute, where'd you get him? I don't think Mushu's hair is going to get much longer.
Thank you I think I am leaning towards a long haired cream too, because I know his siblings had cream on them. The weird thing is though that he still doesn’t quite look like other cream hamsters I have owned. Was wondering whether that is because he is satin as somwone else suggested.

I got him from Pets at Home! Was a bit leery of buying from there given all the horror stories but I couldn’t resist him.
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Old 05-03-2017, 10:00 PM   #15
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Hi everyone. I had concluded that Mushu was a red eyed cream last time I asked... But now I am not so sure. His fur looks darker to me now and he has some white under his chin extending in a thin line down his chest. I thought cream hamsters were meant to be cream all over with no white.

Here is a photo of him from when he was really young, but the white white stripe is more visible because he was standing up:



You can also see the top of this line in these two more recent photos:





And just some other pictures to show that he is now darker:





Does anyone now think he might be a colour other than cream?

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Old 05-06-2017, 08:16 PM   #16
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With all that black ticking I would say possible Cream carrying Melanistic Yellow and Satin to boot. Very pretty boy.
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Old 05-06-2017, 09:32 PM   #17
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Nancy’s Hamsters, thank you. That is not a colour I have heard of before! Would it also be in keeping with the white line on his tummy? Now that you mention it, I did think he may have some ticking, but it was hard to tell whether or not that was just the satin effect. I don’t know if I’d say he has any black on him though - if the ticking is there it looks a lottle more brown to me. Or would the cream lighten it?
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Old 05-07-2017, 02:26 AM   #18
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He'd not cream now we can see the pics of him with the adult coat and all that ticking.
I think he's likely possibly a yellow of ghost yellow. Sometimes they are a bit of a mix that are all showing colours from genes so it is hard to pin point a particular colour. He's lovely.
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Old 05-07-2017, 02:42 AM   #19
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Ghost yellow? That sounds cool! I’ve tried looking on google images for pictures of the colours that you and Nancy mentioned, but there are so many different pictures that I don’t know which is the correct one. If you do have any images of these colours I would love to see them.
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Old 05-07-2017, 03:04 AM   #20
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He gets more and more wonderful each time I see him.
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