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Pebbles82 · 06-04-2017, 01:22 AM

As Cypher says, it's quite normal. If your hand is in the cage though they are sometimes checking what it is doing in their cage! And can follow the hand around lol. Just to make sure it doesn't do anything it shouldn't. They can be a bit houseproud/territorial in their cage. If it is more of a run at the hand to scare it off then that is definitely territorial behaviour.

After some time I started spot cleaning our last hammy's cage while he was in it as it used to stress him to find things had changed slightly and smelled a bit different, if he returned to the cage after I'd done it. So I did the spot cleaning while he was in it so he could see/check what was happening, and he used to follow my hand around slightly worried, but at least he knew what was what and accepted the slight change better.

06-04-2017, 01:22 AM
Pebbles82 Hamster Antics Join Date: Sep 2014 Posts: 23,533	Re: Running over to my hand? As Cypher says, it's quite normal. If your hand is in the cage though they are sometimes checking what it is doing in their cage! And can follow the hand around lol. Just to make sure it doesn't do anything it shouldn't. They can be a bit houseproud/territorial in their cage. If it is more of a run at the hand to scare it off then that is definitely territorial behaviour. After some time I started spot cleaning our last hammy's cage while he was in it as it used to stress him to find things had changed slightly and smelled a bit different, if he returned to the cage after I'd done it. So I did the spot cleaning while he was in it so he could see/check what was happening, and he used to follow my hand around slightly worried, but at least he knew what was what and accepted the slight change better.