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Old 09-12-2020, 09:38 PM   #1
Wembley
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Question strange hamster behaviour?

Hello! Posting because my dwarf hamster Mabel has been a bit strange lately. She's not sick, eats and drinks normally, and LOVES to burrow; so much so that I have trouble getting her to socialize.
I've handled her before and she used to get right into my hand all the time when I was spot cleaning etc, but now if I turn the lights on in her room she just runs into her hide till I'm gone. Today I just put some treats in my palm for her since I thought backtracking in taming would be good instead of always taking her all the way out into the playpen, but after she ate them and walked around my wrist and hand for a while she bolted into her cage despite no movement or sound from me? She's almost five months old and I've had her for almost four months. I just disheartens me that I don't see her often and makes me feel like she doesn't like me but when she IS out to play shes super active and climbs on me? Why the sudden shyness? Is it just a personality thing, where she'd rather just stay at home?

BTW her cage is a 720 square inch diy melamine and plexiglass one, so she has plenty of space
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Old 09-12-2020, 11:02 PM   #2
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Default Re: strange hamster behaviour?

I’ve had something similar to this happen for no obvious reason that I could think of so it’s not always easy to know why.
How much are you spot cleaning? I would try to leave her nest/house & hoard alone as much as possible & just do the minimum amount of spot cleaning.
Has anything else changed that you can think of, in or around her cage, in the room where she is?
I would just keep talking to her a lot, even if she isn’t out or has gone back to her nest, interact with her as much as she allows for now & give her time, she will probably come round again soon enough.
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Old 09-12-2020, 11:40 PM   #3
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Default Re: strange hamster behaviour?

I have a dwarf hamster like that and put it down to his personality. He simply enjoys his own company more than that of a human so i've accepted him for who he is.

He comes out to forage and play when the lights are out and everyone is in bed.
Sometimes i see him and tempt him out by putting a mealworm in a mug and he walks into it so i lift him out and he runs around on me, licks me and climbs up my arms, never bites but soon looks for a place to hide and starts pooing so i put him back.

He never asks to come out of his cage and never bar chews so i guess he must be happy in his own little world.
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