Oh, thank goodness! Yeah, they're not out today. (That is soooo weird.) So I won't worry. We had a winter white, years ago, who suddenly developed a pair and became incredibly cranky, for all of 48 hours, one spring. Then they were gone again and his personality became sweet again and we had NO idea what that was all about. Never happened again....
Hammie's hip/leg rarely cracks, only now and then. We have an appointment, finally, with a vet in two weeks. Simply could not get in to one due to restrictions related to Covid. We are able to move his leg around and he does seem to have power in it, but sometimes he's creaky in the hip. I do wonder if he had something like hamster rickets or was injured as a youngster and things didn't heal up properly.
The bars in his cage are not very high at all and he would only fall into a very thick layer of paper bedding. His play yard's bars are vertical, and he cannot climb them at all. He just comes over to the side and stands on his hind legs and kind of hops up and down when he's ready to go back into his cage. Said cage is low and quite wide.
