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01-21-2011, 06:22 AM
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#41
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Hamster Pup
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Birmingham
Posts: 225
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Re: Syrian Scent Glands
Paws is gorgeous! The pictures are really useful.
Smokey's scent glands are really prominant and his fur often greasy around them. When I was taming him, he was an extremely nervous little creature so I often gently stroked around there to get his scent on my hands and he was always so much more comforatble with me.
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01-21-2011, 06:46 AM
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#42
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Senior Hamster
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Lincolnshire
Posts: 481
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Re: Syrian Scent Glands
Wow, this is really interesting. I have never notivced these before. Maybe Pippas will be more noticable when she gets a bit older. XxX
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02-20-2011, 12:27 PM
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#43
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Highland Hamster
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Scotland
Posts: 3,569
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Re: Syrian Scent Glands
I'm pretty sure that these are scent glands but just wanted to double check that scent glands are baldy? And that's what is meant by "mole"-like?
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Welcome, my handsome LH syrian boy Dr Calcifer Lightman (a.k.a "Cal")!
Run free at the bridge my precious little Senpop. (10/10 - 04/12)
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02-20-2011, 12:44 PM
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#44
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PM Fluffy for custom title
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Wisconsin, USA
Posts: 1,088
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Re: Syrian Scent Glands
I've only ever been able to notice scent glands in one of my hamsters, Bender, who was a Black Syrian. The others you wouldn't even know they have them as they haven't shown, haha.
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02-20-2011, 12:49 PM
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#45
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Moderator
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Yorkshire, UK but my heart lies in Scotland!
Posts: 28,192
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Re: Syrian Scent Glands
Yes that looks like scent glands. It is the right position over the hips. You can see the fur is damp with scent and they often get bald areas over the glands especially as they mature.
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03-08-2011, 10:44 AM
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#46
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Newborn Pup
Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Surrey
Posts: 6
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Re: Syrian Scent Glands
Hi there, I posted a thread however it's taking a while to get approved?! I have included a link of our hammy Woody, he is only young (got him from a pet store on Friday) however his scent glands look very prominent is this natural for such a young hamster? They were damp and the fur was flattened the other day. Also the cage occasionally smells of fish, even immediately after a cage clean. Is the smell from the scent glands? I should point out the hamster is male.
http://db.tt/dHUMVgb
Thanks!
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03-09-2011, 05:09 AM
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#47
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Moderator
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Yorkshire, UK but my heart lies in Scotland!
Posts: 28,192
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Re: Syrian Scent Glands
It is approved now.
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06-06-2011, 08:54 PM
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#48
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Newborn Pup
Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: delaware
Posts: 8
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Re: Syrian Scent Glands
Wow! Very useful info! Ive seen my hamster obsessively rub his back against random objects, I had no idea what that was, xD thanks
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07-31-2011, 04:57 PM
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#49
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Highland Hamster
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Scotland
Posts: 3,569
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Re: Syrian Scent Glands
Sorry to bring this thread back up again, I'm just so panicky about Sen getting problems with her lady parts, I managed to get a pic of her and wanted to check if the darkness is just her scent glands?
How terribly unlady-like - sorry Sen!
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Welcome, my handsome LH syrian boy Dr Calcifer Lightman (a.k.a "Cal")!
Run free at the bridge my precious little Senpop. (10/10 - 04/12)
RIP My sweet little dwarfies - Doc and Noodle <3
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08-01-2011, 04:40 AM
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#50
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Moderator
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Yorkshire, UK but my heart lies in Scotland!
Posts: 28,192
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Re: Syrian Scent Glands
It isn't her scent glands down there as these are on her hips but it looks like normal increased pigmentation around the genitals as she matures Gillzy. I don't see any sign of discharge or swelling and this is normal in a hamster her colour (she looks like a Golden underneath!)
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