[Stanza]

Hi Julie, we are in a similar situation and I’m new to hamster keeping so thank goodness for this forum as I’d be thinking we are doing something wrong. We have a male Syrian who will appear at around 10:30/11pm for his first look around pick up food, use wheel. If I want to stay up late, he’ll come out into his playpen and run about at this time or later but I’m just not a night owl. I do stay up late on a Saturday to see him properly and he’s great fun, the rest of the week I just hear him in the night on his wheel.

I just think some of the hamsters are like this. I don’t think it’s anything your doing as he’s clearly very loved, lets you handle him when he is out and his cage sounds amazing. Another member wrote a post on ‘ghost hamsters’ which are a bit like ours. I guess it’s just one of those things.