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Fluffagrams · 02-27-2018, 01:59 PM

Whilst I can see the point you're getting at, I think that it would be difficult to achieve what you are looking for.

I have found that most breeders have been willing to give the information that they themselves have but with several breeders having imported hamsters from abroad where they may use different systems, it's going to be difficult to achieve a truly complete database. There's also the issue of the database not being complete if there are some UK breeders that aren't signed up... unless it was compulsory and even then, what options would there be for the breeders who are less technologically minded?

To set up such a scheme would take a lot of work and there would be significant costs involved as such a thing is likely to need to be outsourced to an external programmer and those costs passed on to the users. The costs of registering the pedigrees would also have to be passed on from the breeder to the buyer which could then have a knock on effect on the amount of pet homes available to breeder hamsters.

02-27-2018, 01:59 PM
Fluffagrams Moderator Join Date: Mar 2015 Location: Bath, UK Posts: 3,640	Re: Online Hamster Pedigree Database? Whilst I can see the point you're getting at, I think that it would be difficult to achieve what you are looking for. I have found that most breeders have been willing to give the information that they themselves have but with several breeders having imported hamsters from abroad where they may use different systems, it's going to be difficult to achieve a truly complete database. There's also the issue of the database not being complete if there are some UK breeders that aren't signed up... unless it was compulsory and even then, what options would there be for the breeders who are less technologically minded? To set up such a scheme would take a lot of work and there would be significant costs involved as such a thing is likely to need to be outsourced to an external programmer and those costs passed on to the users. The costs of registering the pedigrees would also have to be passed on from the breeder to the buyer which could then have a knock on effect on the amount of pet homes available to breeder hamsters.