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Old 03-16-2020, 07:09 AM  
AmityvilleHams
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Default Re: Freezing hamster food

It does sound unbelievable that anything could get into a sealed plastic bag, but when you live in a place where you see it happen so frequently as I do it's not that surprising.

A lot of forum members have seemed to have the wrong idea though in other threads etc by assuming that since hamsters naturally eat insects it shouldn't do any harm when random insects wander into cages or are in food etc. This isn't really accurate when there is such a massive difference between insects that are actually raised properly for consumption and those that you have no clue on background - the ones with unknown background being almost guaranteed to be treated with harmful pesticides and such(as a significant portion of insect contamination will happen while in storage - so even certified organic foods can contain pesticide treated insects). There's a very good reason why feeding wild insects is so frowned upon and considered unacceptable in the reptile community!
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