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Old 09-01-2013, 01:01 AM  
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Default Re: Smokey's very ill.

It does sound as though he needed one-to-one attention and fingers crossed he will bounce back. Feeding him extra food like dry porridge oats (just a half teaspoonful) over his normal mix and buy a bag of Canary mix from any pet shop as this will contain hemp seeds, linseed as well as mixed millets. Although I`m sure he already gets millet if you feed him the Burgess dwarf mix.

Will you be keeping him on his own now? I feel it`s probably best now in case living with Cloud, he may have been being mentally bullied rather than physically. It`s hard to say why he would go like this while Cloud is fine. And illness in one of a pair can lead to the fitter hamster starting to push his weight around for dominance if they sense their weaker counterpart is ill.

Let us know how Smokey is doing.
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