New hamster. - Page 8

Pebbles82 · 03-16-2020, 01:05 PM

When they’re babies poo comes at all kinds of strange times! Sometimes it’s when they’r a bit scared or nervous. The pops don’t need spot cleaning that often - they aren’t smelly and sometimes they eat them (normal) so if you spot clean them too much you’re stealing emergency food supplies

It is instinctive to want to clean out when you smell pee but I’d leave him alone a few more days. He’s only just moved to a new house and needs a bit of settling in time. I am sure he won’t sleep in it and if he does it won’t hurt for a day or two. Sometimes when they’re settled they even chuck old smelly substrate out of the house door and drag new in. But they need chance to develop their own habits and routine. He will be peeing somewhere but I’d give it a few more days before poking around in his house!

Geo92 · 03-16-2020, 05:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Serendipity7000

When they’re babies poo comes at all kinds of strange times! Sometimes it’s when they’r a bit scared or nervous. The pops don’t need spot cleaning that often - they aren’t smelly and sometimes they eat them (normal) so if you spot clean them too much you’re stealing emergency food supplies

It is instinctive to want to clean out when you smell pee but I’d leave him alone a few more days. He’s only just moved to a new house and needs a bit of settling in time. I am sure he won’t sleep in it and if he does it won’t hurt for a day or two. Sometimes when they’re settled they even chuck old smelly substrate out of the house door and drag new in. But they need chance to develop their own habits and routine. He will be peeing somewhere but I’d give it a few more days before poking around in his house!

so I have not touched him yet or anything, though he does take food from my fingers now inside the cage,.

Pebbles82 · 03-17-2020, 03:51 AM

That sounds like a good start

Keep talking to him as well. He’ll get familiar with your voice and presence.

Geo92 · 03-17-2020, 04:08 AM

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Originally Posted by Serendipity7000

That sounds like a good start

Keep talking to him as well. He’ll get familiar with your voice and presence.

He is improving for sure, still can scare him self now and again, but improving.

I tried the sock method and he just likes to nibble my sock lol, I did kinda get a little pet by doing that, I believe it's mostly me my trust isn't %100 yet, and that's the problem, if my trust isn't %100 yet ... his wont be either., I do open the cage a few times when he's up and doesn't really bother with it, so that's something. when I leave my hand in and he gets close to me to smell, and pull I back...

I did give him some banana yesterday as a treat, and he liked that.

Pebbles82 · 03-17-2020, 04:34 AM

They all have their own timescale really. If you do too much and he pulls back a bit then leave it a couple of days. He shows interest in coming out then let him out for some hand taming but I wouldn’t rush it. If you do have him put it would need to be in a secure area until he’s tame and easy to pick up without “pinging” (wriggling free and leaping 2 feet in the air at the same time!). The dry bath tub is what most people do for taking. Put a tube and the odd you in there and pop him in and occasionally try stroking him on the back or let him walk over the palm of your hand but don’t try to hold him until he stops flinching or running away from your hand. To get him to the bathtub a hamster ball is quite useful - they can walk into the ball from the cage, pop the lid on and carefully carry the ball to the bathtub and take the lid off when it’s put down in the bath so he can explore from there (needs wedging on its side at the plug area I found do the ball opening stays on the side). We did this a couple of times a week to tame our first hamster. When he’d had enough he would get back in the ball as if to say - take me home now. But wait till he shows signs of wanting to come out.

Geo92 · 03-18-2020, 04:40 AM

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Originally Posted by Serendipity7000

They all have their own timescale really. If you do too much and he pulls back a bit then leave it a couple of days. He shows interest in coming out then let him out for some hand taming but I wouldn’t rush it. If you do have him put it would need to be in a secure area until he’s tame and easy to pick up without “pinging” (wriggling free and leaping 2 feet in the air at the same time!). The dry bath tub is what most people do for taking. Put a tube and the odd you in there and pop him in and occasionally try stroking him on the back or let him walk over the palm of your hand but don’t try to hold him until he stops flinching or running away from your hand. To get him to the bathtub a hamster ball is quite useful - they can walk into the ball from the cage, pop the lid on and carefully carry the ball to the bathtub and take the lid off when it’s put down in the bath so he can explore from there (needs wedging on its side at the plug area I found do the ball opening stays on the side). We did this a couple of times a week to tame our first hamster. When he’d had enough he would get back in the ball as if to say - take me home now. But wait till he shows signs of wanting to come out.

I know he has peed in the shoe box, but cannot locate where, haha.

Geo92 · 03-18-2020, 08:32 AM

so my hamster doesn't chew bars, he did for the first day, but it slowly stopped, does that mean he isn't bored and feels better about a new place?

also he did wake up briefly , trying to push open the shoebox lid lol.

Pebbles82 · 03-18-2020, 01:30 PM

Ha ha. Clever of him.

Geo92 · 03-18-2020, 01:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Serendipity7000

Ha ha. Clever of him.

so for the first time I put something in the palm of my hand, (with the sock on) I did little tests the other day seeing what he would so, he likes to nibble on the sock, so should of not tried it beyond that. he climbed on my hand with the sock then gave me a hard nibble, lucky no blood but still felt it a little lol.

I am hoping it's just the sock, and not my hand he would do that too lol. ( I wont be using the sock anymore)

Geo92 · 03-19-2020, 03:43 AM

so today woke up, hamster climbing, chewing bars again, was like I wonder why, his Bowl was empty but I filled it up a day before that, and he stuffed his cheeks and dumped in his nest, when I looked this morning looks like he managed to eat all that food, (I couldn't see it anyway) so maybe I think I am feeding enough, when I aint, I know people say 1-2 table spoons in 24 hours, but because of his size I was giving in 1 table spoon but he seems to go through that quite quick.

soon as I filled his bowl he filled his cheeks and went to sleep.. so that was the reason why he was climbing the bars etc.

only reason why I don't want to fill the bowl to much, is I don't have the best access to clean any old hoard up.. so it's why I liked to leave it a day or 2 after this bowl is empty to refill but starting to think this isn't the best way.

but what should I do? should I just fill up the bowl , leave it a few days and even if it's not all gone, fill it up with fresh dried food., just do 2 table spoons?

or fill it up and soon as it's empty just refill it?

also noticed he has dragged some of the tissue out the nest now, still in the shoebox but out of the potty (where he sleeps) is that stuff he considered dirty? should I rip up more clean tissue and leave outside so he has more clean stuff to move in?

also he also climbs up to the level without the ramp sometimes, one wooden chew puzzle thing he can stand on that to get up there, sometimes he does. so least I know if I do remove the ladder, he can still get up there.