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Pebbles82 · 09-22-2022, 05:47 AM

This does happen a lot with older hamsters. Sometimes it frees itsekf but it’s not nice for them to have a stuck closed eye for more than a day so it’s doing them a favour loosening it and freeing it up. Our hamsters didn’t like me doing it but you could see visible relief afterwards once the eye was unstuck. With sale water you just need a teaspoon per pint of water. I do it in boiling water then let it cool down to tepid (or just add some cold to cool it down quicker). Eg half a pint boiling, half a pint cold. Unless you want it to be sterile and then all boiling and let it cool down. I don’t think it needs to be sterile though really.

Good news about the urine! Do you think it could possibly be some good he’s peed on? I and others have had that before - the thick brown liquid turned out to be a bit of peed on food that had gone mushy (in my case I thought it was green diarrhoea!)

09-22-2022, 05:47 AM
Pebbles82 Hamster Antics Join Date: Sep 2014 Posts: 23,533	Re: Thick Dark Brown Urine This does happen a lot with older hamsters. Sometimes it frees itsekf but it’s not nice for them to have a stuck closed eye for more than a day so it’s doing them a favour loosening it and freeing it up. Our hamsters didn’t like me doing it but you could see visible relief afterwards once the eye was unstuck. With sale water you just need a teaspoon per pint of water. I do it in boiling water then let it cool down to tepid (or just add some cold to cool it down quicker). Eg half a pint boiling, half a pint cold. Unless you want it to be sterile and then all boiling and let it cool down. I don’t think it needs to be sterile though really. Good news about the urine! Do you think it could possibly be some good he’s peed on? I and others have had that before - the thick brown liquid turned out to be a bit of peed on food that had gone mushy (in my case I thought it was green diarrhoea!)