[Lilafernim]

There will be more experienced owners respond, but I also have a female Syrian hamster and my previous hamster was a female Syrian hamster also. I could be wrong but I’ve always found every few days they’d get in these feisty moods and I think it’s just largely due to the fact they’re on heat.

I can always tell from their smell first lol, I love the smell of hamsters fur as weird as that sounds but every few days they smell different and this is when they’re on heat. Yesterday, mine had that smell and she becomes more scatty and bite things more. She won’t bite me but I was letting her have free roam of the hallway and my room and I heard her starting on the carpet.

I just gently blow on her to startle her and try and get her to move on, If she keeps going back to the same spot she goes back in her cage. I lay off treats in these times, I don’t know if there’s any proof of this in hamsters but on our periods the healthy you eat, the lesser the symptoms of cramps or hot flushes etc. Mine seems to chill a bit after fresh food but could just me thinking that. Yesterday she had some lettuce, cucumber, broccoli and mealworms.

I seem to find also mine have bad heat effects sometimes, where they’ll be worse on it than usual but give it a couple days and they’ve normally calmed down again. I know it can be distressing as you just want them to be happy and you think something is wrong, but it could just simply be she’s on heat. Maybe try getting any cardboard or chew toys you have so she can go to town instead on those maybe, mine always loves whimzees dog chews, just until she calms down.