Hamster Central - View Single Post - our new baby is an oddball, but is she okay?

pompomsdaddy · 03-23-2021, 12:52 PM

Hi everyone!

New here, hope this is the right subforum

me and my wife got our second hamster at the weekend (in a different cage and room to our first due to our original little guy being a roborovski and the new girl being a Syrian) and we absolutely adore her. she's so sweet and such a little character, but we just want to make sure the following is okay and somewhat normal?

Firstly, she absolutely can open her eyes, and spends plenty of the night walking around wide eyed and active, and it's great. However at points during the day she is in quite a strange half asleep state, where she comes out for food, a stretch, maybe a little run, but does it all with her eyes closed! It's super cute and if she's fine with it then great, but we just want to make sure that's okay. Sometimes she can be in this state for a full hour or two, kind of half sleeping but also every few minutes coming out for a bite of food, then going back to sleep, all while her eyes are shut. I should also hasten to add the room is dark at this point, she has plenty of space to burrow in, and we are totally silent while in the room with her. It's just interesting to watch

Secondly, while as I mentioned above, she has plenty of sawdust and bedding to burrow in, as well as some lovely hidey-holes, beds, blocks, logs etc, she almost always chooses to sleep in the plastic tubing that connects her bottom floor to her top floor. Again, we have seen her burrow plenty, and she has slept in her beds, she actually seems surprisingly content and happy in there considering it's still fairly new surroundings for her (we got her 10 days ago), but it seems odd that she's choosing to sleep on hard plastic, not really surrounded by anything other than more hard plastic. Again, she is using the other stuff, but this seems to be her chosen spot 90% of the time, just want to make sure this is okay too.

We just absolutely adore little pom-pom, and want to make sure she's happy, healthy and safe, are both points above okay as long as she *can* open her eyes and *does* sleep in other places?

Thanks very much

03-23-2021, 12:52 PM
pompomsdaddy Newborn Pup Join Date: Mar 2021 Posts: 2	our new baby is an oddball, but is she okay? Hi everyone! New here, hope this is the right subforum me and my wife got our second hamster at the weekend (in a different cage and room to our first due to our original little guy being a roborovski and the new girl being a Syrian) and we absolutely adore her. she's so sweet and such a little character, but we just want to make sure the following is okay and somewhat normal? Firstly, she absolutely can open her eyes, and spends plenty of the night walking around wide eyed and active, and it's great. However at points during the day she is in quite a strange half asleep state, where she comes out for food, a stretch, maybe a little run, but does it all with her eyes closed! It's super cute and if she's fine with it then great, but we just want to make sure that's okay. Sometimes she can be in this state for a full hour or two, kind of half sleeping but also every few minutes coming out for a bite of food, then going back to sleep, all while her eyes are shut. I should also hasten to add the room is dark at this point, she has plenty of space to burrow in, and we are totally silent while in the room with her. It's just interesting to watch Secondly, while as I mentioned above, she has plenty of sawdust and bedding to burrow in, as well as some lovely hidey-holes, beds, blocks, logs etc, she almost always chooses to sleep in the plastic tubing that connects her bottom floor to her top floor. Again, we have seen her burrow plenty, and she has slept in her beds, she actually seems surprisingly content and happy in there considering it's still fairly new surroundings for her (we got her 10 days ago), but it seems odd that she's choosing to sleep on hard plastic, not really surrounded by anything other than more hard plastic. Again, she is using the other stuff, but this seems to be her chosen spot 90% of the time, just want to make sure this is okay too. We just absolutely adore little pom-pom, and want to make sure she's happy, healthy and safe, are both points above okay as long as she can open her eyes and does sleep in other places? Thanks very much