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Ria P · 03-29-2022, 07:42 AM

We both had covid recently with a lot of symptoms and dwarf Gertie continued to live in our bedroom. We currently have 8 hamsters so we are always in close proximity of one sniffing nose or another. We kept to basic hygiene like handwashing but i still carried the hamsters around to get them from cage to playareas. I didn't let them near my face and didn't breathe, sneeze or cough on them and kept physical interaction to a minimum. They are all fine so i think that the chances of a hamster catching it from us is minimal. And yes, i aired the house by opening the windows when the hamsters were tucked away in their nests.

What i'm saying is that, if covid were easy to pass on to a hamster then one of ours would probably have caught it.

Personally, i'd leave Loki in your bedroom if a change of location would upset him. If he's not bothered by it then yes, it wouldn't do any harm to keep him in the spare room.

03-29-2022, 07:42 AM
Ria P House of Hamsters Join Date: Mar 2019 Location: Wiltshire, UK Posts: 7,103	Re: Hamsters and Covid... We both had covid recently with a lot of symptoms and dwarf Gertie continued to live in our bedroom. We currently have 8 hamsters so we are always in close proximity of one sniffing nose or another. We kept to basic hygiene like handwashing but i still carried the hamsters around to get them from cage to playareas. I didn't let them near my face and didn't breathe, sneeze or cough on them and kept physical interaction to a minimum. They are all fine so i think that the chances of a hamster catching it from us is minimal. And yes, i aired the house by opening the windows when the hamsters were tucked away in their nests. What i'm saying is that, if covid were easy to pass on to a hamster then one of ours would probably have caught it. Personally, i'd leave Loki in your bedroom if a change of location would upset him. If he's not bothered by it then yes, it wouldn't do any harm to keep him in the spare room.