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Ria P · 03-30-2021, 02:55 PM

Have you changed anything in her cage like changed her set up? It sounds like she's territorial and sees your hand as an intruder. Some hamsters don't like it when we touch their things and hate it when we move anything around.

I brushed some sand off a platform with a pastry brush the other day and dwarf Clarissa came flying over and attacked the brush. She's feisty but not aggressive until she encountered the pastry brush inside her cage.

Any spot cleaning, wheel cleaning etc i do when she's out of her cage. I even tend to put food and fresh water in when she's free roaming because she climbs on my hand and hangs off my sleeve when my hands are inside her cage trying to stop my hands from doing whatever they're doing.

You could spend some time with your "aggressive" dwarf outside her cage in a neutral environment and may well find that she's more her old self.

03-30-2021, 02:55 PM
Ria P House of Hamsters Join Date: Mar 2019 Location: Wiltshire, UK Posts: 7,103	Re: Aggressive hamster please help Have you changed anything in her cage like changed her set up? It sounds like she's territorial and sees your hand as an intruder. Some hamsters don't like it when we touch their things and hate it when we move anything around. I brushed some sand off a platform with a pastry brush the other day and dwarf Clarissa came flying over and attacked the brush. She's feisty but not aggressive until she encountered the pastry brush inside her cage. Any spot cleaning, wheel cleaning etc i do when she's out of her cage. I even tend to put food and fresh water in when she's free roaming because she climbs on my hand and hangs off my sleeve when my hands are inside her cage trying to stop my hands from doing whatever they're doing. You could spend some time with your "aggressive" dwarf outside her cage in a neutral environment and may well find that she's more her old self.