Rcoky sleeps way too much!

Shaedde · 12-22-2011, 02:08 AM

I know hammies sleep a lot and are more active during the night. But It seems like even if I wake up early for work, he is sleeping (sometimes he will be awake and I get to say bye). And there will be times when I come home to him running on his wheel, but a majority of the time I get home and he will be asleep so I don't get to play with him as much

what should I do? I feel like it's unfair to him

KimOrbit · 12-22-2011, 03:04 AM

I think if its the way that he enjoys to be, then let him to this. Keeping hamster is 80% for happiness of hamsters and only 10% for enjoyment of owners. you are thinking I have lost a 10%??

nope. other 10% is for making an order in life. its good to do every thing by schedule and Hammy made me do every thing on time (Im not sure about yours

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but if you think he is sleeping too much then bring him to a vet. maybe he is sick. please let me know how things go if you brought him to a vet

**kyrilliondaemon** · 12-22-2011, 05:40 AM

You can wake him up, as long as its reasonably late then he'll cope fine. If you wake him at roughly the same time each day he'll get used to it and learn to enjoy the time out of his cage then.
Its not mean, it lets him get time out of the cage so in a way is actually doing him a favour and making him happy.

I can be 99% sure he doesn't need a vet for it, so I definetly wouldn't be wasting money on that - one vet visit is at least four toys worth of money, and I think the hamster would prefer the toys to be honest. All a vet can do is the basic health check every hamster owner should do reguarly anyway, if all that tells you your pet is fine and you go to a vet saying "it sleeps a lot" I think they'd probably just point out it was nocturnal and send you on your way again unless you could confidently say its behaviour had definetly changed and convince the vet of that.

Shaedde - I know you're not worrying too much, so asking for advice was good. I'm just trying to discourage the idea of a vet visit and explain why I'm discouraging it.

Oh last point - for me keeping a hamster is 100% about making it happy, unless its scared of humans outside cage time makes it happy so its worth waking the hamster at reasonable hours to ensure it gets that.