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Fluffagrams · 07-19-2017, 02:48 PM

Putting stuff in his wheel is Matthew's favourite thing to do and at first, I thought that he wouldn't be able to run on it with everything he'd put in there but he proved me wrong and I'll often hear a monkey nut or a dog biscuit clattering around in there as he runs.

I had one hamster in the past who would never run on his wheel if we were around but as soon as you left him alone, he'd start running and in a lot of cases this is what hamsters who don't appear to run on their wheels will do. I tend to think that as long as the option is there for them and they are able to run on the wheel they have comfortably then there's not a lot else we can do to encourage them to run on one.

I've got one who went through a spell of not wanting to run on his wheel at all but it didn't affect him as much as people worry that it might. Admittedly, my boy is lazy at the best of times but it was just a phase that he was going through and after a while he started to run on his wheel again.

07-19-2017, 02:48 PM
Fluffagrams Moderator Join Date: Mar 2015 Location: Bath, UK Posts: 3,640	Re: Storing treats on the wheel? Putting stuff in his wheel is Matthew's favourite thing to do and at first, I thought that he wouldn't be able to run on it with everything he'd put in there but he proved me wrong and I'll often hear a monkey nut or a dog biscuit clattering around in there as he runs. I had one hamster in the past who would never run on his wheel if we were around but as soon as you left him alone, he'd start running and in a lot of cases this is what hamsters who don't appear to run on their wheels will do. I tend to think that as long as the option is there for them and they are able to run on the wheel they have comfortably then there's not a lot else we can do to encourage them to run on one. I've got one who went through a spell of not wanting to run on his wheel at all but it didn't affect him as much as people worry that it might. Admittedly, my boy is lazy at the best of times but it was just a phase that he was going through and after a while he started to run on his wheel again.