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Letty · 03-07-2019, 06:54 PM

I’ve had my female Syrian hamster for just over 4 months now and she has recently started to come around enough to be handled properly. I’m estimating that she’s about 6 months old. She’s tame enough and is perfectly happy to cone to my hands and let me pick her up and out of her cage, but after being out for about a minute she starts vocalising, the best way I can describe it is like little squeaky chirping sounds. I assume this means she’s getting annoyed or stressed so I place her back in her cage, but if I leave the front door open she’ll sniff around her cage for a bit and then voluntarily climb back into my hands and do the same again. Just trying to make sure I’m judging her behaviour correctly as I’ve never known a hamster to be vocal before so I’m at a bit of a loss as to what this means! She’s pretty calm when being handled but is pretty wiggly and doesn’t like to stay still. Does anyone have any ideas?

03-07-2019, 06:54 PM
Letty Newborn Pup Join Date: Oct 2018 Posts: 14	Squeaking/chirping when handling I’ve had my female Syrian hamster for just over 4 months now and she has recently started to come around enough to be handled properly. I’m estimating that she’s about 6 months old. She’s tame enough and is perfectly happy to cone to my hands and let me pick her up and out of her cage, but after being out for about a minute she starts vocalising, the best way I can describe it is like little squeaky chirping sounds. I assume this means she’s getting annoyed or stressed so I place her back in her cage, but if I leave the front door open she’ll sniff around her cage for a bit and then voluntarily climb back into my hands and do the same again. Just trying to make sure I’m judging her behaviour correctly as I’ve never known a hamster to be vocal before so I’m at a bit of a loss as to what this means! She’s pretty calm when being handled but is pretty wiggly and doesn’t like to stay still. Does anyone have any ideas?