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Old 09-23-2018, 11:45 AM   #1
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Default Help with taming Noodles

For those who know Noodles has now been with us a week, he seems to have settled well, made the cage his own and when he is up we have been chatting to him and offering him bits of food, on Thursday he got brave and took some from my hand, we have 2 problems though - the first one is he is not waking up until after 9pm so our daughter isn't getting to see him hardly at all & secondly he won't actually come to us. On Friday & Saturday I decided (probably wrongly) to start trying to waken him a little earlier so I made noise & disturbed his bed, when he woke up he did let us handle him but didn't seem happy & pooed all the time (is this normal?). On Saturday we actually needed to do a spot clean as he had turned his sand over entirely so when I woke him we did the sitting in the bath thing with him but he was quite obviously unhappy & panicky and when we tried to pick him up he bit (not hard).

I have left him tonight & not disturbed him at all, when he wakes I will go back to chatting to him and offering him food.

What should we do? How should we be approaching the issue?

He is in my daughters bedroom but now I am wondering if we should bring him downstairs - maybe he needs to be around us all night?

Any advice & guidance is welcome.

Thanks for reading the looooong post!
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Old 09-23-2018, 12:54 PM   #2
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Default Re: Help with taming Noodles

A week is no time at all when it comes to taming a hamster.
Re the poo issue it does seem normal for hamsters to have multi poo's when they are up and about and being active, Ghost when he is in his ball will have multi poo's Pip and Forrest where the same.
Keep doing what you are doing, talking to him when he gets up, offering him tasty treats from your hand he will soon get used to you, if you can do this at the same time each night he will get into a routine.
Taking him down from your daughters room is a good idea you can build a routine much better.
Hope this helps. just remember don't rush it.
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Old 09-23-2018, 01:46 PM   #3
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He will take time to settle but he will. I think that he was born in the rescue wasn't he Ems so he will have been used to handling from a young age but probably not by young people and also not as frequently maybe as some. We take in hamsters who need taming sometimes and this thread may help though I warn you it is a sad read however Sparkle's legacy is the pictures of her taming and her story - Sparkle's last chance

I would persevere now myself with frequent handling. Short spells two or three times a day at least. Start taming from his current location before you move him out I would say. He is a baby and skitty spells with babies who have just been rehomed are very common. I would take the whole top off and start with the back stroking then move on to lift and lay with him. Progress to the hand to hand tunnel running. I get children to sit foot to food and make a playpen in the middle. If the hammy tries to climb out over their legs they may gently lift and lay him back in the pen.
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Old 09-24-2018, 12:47 AM   #4
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Thanks for responding RAD & Souffle. Daughter is adamant she wants him in her room and to be honest he does seem ok, last night he woke at 8pm so we sat and chatted to him and he came over to see us, we both offered him food from our hands which he took, he pouched the nut & took it back to his stash but he ate the fresh stuff - we spent about an hour with him, we had both doors of the Barney open and he wasn't bothered at all, just went about his normal business by the looks of it, he did allow a small stroke and when I left my hand in it felt like he licked or very gently touched my finger so for now I think we will do this every night and then try again with the handling at the weekend.

One other thing - waking them up - yes or no for handling at the minute or do we wait until he is a lot more comfortable?
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Old 09-24-2018, 02:26 AM   #5
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Personally yes I would wake him. Give a sign that something nice is on the way when you rustle the bedding or start talking. Then soon take the cue and will start to know. Cheerios are a great favourite! A spoonful of ready brek, a little bit of chicken. Put it in a dish and while he is nosing in there do the stroke along the back with light pressure so he feels you there. This can then move on to the lift and lay and eventually the lift out. Move the treats in the bowl closer and closer to the door as you progress.
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Old 09-25-2018, 05:01 AM   #6
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I think they do take a while to come round after being woken Our last hamster needed five minutes or so after waking to be fully with it! It sounds like you're making progress and it will probably be easier when he feels more confident with you both - gets used to your presence and scents. Have you done the tissue trick? You put some sheets of toilet paper up your sleeve or down your bra against your skin and leave them there for a couple of hours. Then tear the sheets into strips and put them in the cage for him to take for nesting material. You could both do it.

I would avoid spot cleaning much if possible - the Barney is a big cage so shouldn't need much doing for a while. Is he using his potty? If he tips it up again just add a bit more sand to it but leave the tipped out sand rather than spot cleaning.

I've found they poop a lot when out of the cage at first and think it's an anxiety thing and/or a younger hamster thing - our older ones have better control!. The poops aren't dirty really though - like little hard seeds.
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