Dumping food in the water dish?

[jesshammie]

I've bought Ru a couple of water bottles and both seemed to be really rubbish and leaky, so up until recently he'd happily been using a water bowl to drink from. However, over the past couple of days he's started dumping some of his food into the water dish (soaking the food and obviously not allowing him any access to the water). I've got him another bottle now to try as I'm worried that despite daily veggies it's obviously dangerous him not having access to water, but does anyone know why he's doing this?

On an unrelated note he's taming so well and came put to play on the sofa with us last night!

[Drago]

Lol silly ham! Sometimes hamsters do funny things for reasons they feel important, but really, we couldn't ever see the importance in. Sometimes though, I've seen elderly hamsters (and other rodents) doing this as well as even urinating on the food in order to soften it. I suppose it could be for their teeth. Of course I doubt there's anything wrong with young little Ru, but it's always worth a check over

Glad to hear taming is going well!