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04-10-2016, 08:11 AM
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Newborn Pup
Join Date: Mar 2016
Location: Bloomfield NJ
Posts: 32
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Small pets in Europe?
Hi!
I have noticed there are lots of people from Europe on this forum (someday I shall travel there!! Someday!!)
It had me wondering - are smaller pets like hamsters/gerbils/guinea pigs more popular in Europe than other pets like cats and dogs?
It sometimes seems that here in NJ we're all about dogs all the time - but hammies need homes too.
Although the lady at the pet store gave me a weird look when I told her that the hammie was for me, the 32 year old.
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04-10-2016, 08:19 AM
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Dwarf whisperer
Join Date: May 2014
Location: Wales UK
Posts: 24,789
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Re: Small pets in Europe?
Just going by what I see here I would imagine small pets are probably more common in the UK (don't know about the rest of Europe) than the US but I think too you just hear & see a whole lot more about cats & dogs, if you watch pet/animal programmes on TV in the UK you'd think no one kept anything else!
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04-10-2016, 08:26 AM
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Hamster Overlord
Join Date: Dec 2015
Location: California, LA
Posts: 661
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Re: Small pets in Europe?
here where i am it is less common to hear that people have hamsters as pets, unless they are children, but i wish it wasn't like that because most children dont know how to care for hamsters. But yea other than children and well me I personally have not met another person with a hamster as a pet in the us
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04-10-2016, 08:51 AM
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Banned
Join Date: Jan 2016
Location: United States
Posts: 4,407
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Re: Small pets in Europe?
I had a family member (not close) ask me if there was something wrong with me for having dwarf hamsters? lol
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04-10-2016, 08:51 AM
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Fluffy Hamsters
Join Date: Oct 2014
Location: Hampshire
Posts: 4,231
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Re: Small pets in Europe?
I dont have any friends with hamsters. All my family and friends think i am somewhat eccentric to keep hamsters and rabbits at my age (55).
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04-10-2016, 08:54 AM
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Dwarf whisperer
Join Date: May 2014
Location: Wales UK
Posts: 24,789
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Re: Small pets in Europe?
Still young flowerfairy
They are most commonly seen as children's pets here in the UK too, it wasn't until I began keeping them that I wondered why on earth they should be thought of as an ideal pet for kids!
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Always loved, never forgotten, forever in my heart
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04-11-2016, 08:35 AM
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Hamster Antics
Join Date: Sep 2014
Posts: 23,533
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Re: Small pets in Europe?
There does seem to be a big affinity for hamsters in Germany! But I don't know the statistics as to whether hamsters are preferred as pets to cats and dogs. Probably not - cats and dogs tend to be the most popular pets most places.
I'm in the Uk and some of our friends think I am strange talking about our hamster! They think they're just for kids. Ours is actually owned by little boy (but he's mine too lol).
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04-11-2016, 11:36 AM
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Adult Hamster
Join Date: Apr 2014
Location: United States
Posts: 281
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Re: Small pets in Europe?
I'm in the US and I can "get around" the weird looks by telling people my hamster lives in my counseling office at school, where he does serve as a therapy pet. He is very well cared for here and the students love him. I want a hamster at home, luckily I can say it's for my son but it's really for me!
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04-11-2016, 11:57 AM
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Hamster Overlord
Join Date: Dec 2015
Location: California, LA
Posts: 661
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Re: Small pets in Europe?
i find it strange that people or well adults have to justify having hamsters for pets, i dont see anything wrong than getting a hamster since there is nothing wrong with it. But as i have been reading most people have to justify why they would want a hamster, as if their cute and adorable faces isn't reason enough.
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04-11-2016, 01:11 PM
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Adult Hamster
Join Date: Jan 2016
Location: Ireland
Posts: 337
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Re: Small pets in Europe?
Ireland has the usual kids who get the hamsters, but when I have my weekly visit to the local pet shop they always have a few new hamsters. Someone must be buying hamsters, weather it is kids or not, I do not know.
I have one friend who keeps a hamster, but is stuck in the 'old' ways. Small cage etc. Stubborn and not open to new information.
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