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Old 07-11-2015, 08:02 AM   #1
Chiela
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Default What does your hamster like?

Chiela doesn't like much else than meal worms, hazel nuts and sunflower seeds.

She acts like she doesn't know what it is and that she doesn't like the smell of it. which means that she wont even try it out. Can it really be that she doesn't know what it is? Pr. instinct I mean.

So like the headline said.... What does your hamster like?

I have another question, that i make here so I don't make like 100 threads ^^
It is about behaviour and taming a hamster (campbell as I don't quit know if they are that different^^).

I have been watching a video about taming a hamster. (she was talking about robo's which should be harder to tame than a campbell)
The girl said to put your hamster in a box and to put your hand in, so they get desensitised to being afraid of you, and your hands.
Another girl in another video said to do this 2 - 3 times a day

First I have no idea on how to do this that many times a day as Chiela, sleeps the hole day, and doesn't even come out when i give her fresh food and water. She comes out around 02 - 04 o'clock in the night, so sometimes i don't even get the chance to talk with her.
I talk to her many times in the day time, even though I don't see her fx. I say godmorning Chiela, hi Chiela are you having a good sleep?, I ask her if she wants some new water and food, and tell her when i have given it to her, and i say good night of course. And so on, even though i don't see her. I hope you get my point ^^. When I do see her, she isn't scared i think to walk up in my hands and take a treat, although she doesn't wanna stay there for to long.
So today I tried to put her in a box, put alot of different treats in there too, and my hand. But the way she acted, made me think she was stressing out instead of being just curious.
She was walking around, checking the box and (trying to) the area around it, she took one (half) meal worm and started all over again. Then she started grooming herself, but like really grooming. and scratching herself as if she had lice or something.

I am right no?
She was stressed, and didn't like being in the box at all. I moved to fast right? I mean Chiela wasn't ready for this.
But how am I gonna get her really tamed, if this stresses her and she never comes out, in the day time?
There is something really wrong....
She is a campbell, they are normally very territorial, but Chiela doesn't mind me putting my hand in the cage, what did I get wrong.

I would love, if possible to make her trust me as much as Poro does. Poro is always ready to come up and cuddle or get a treat. Even if you (gently of course) wake her up. she even comes out of the cage, trusting we catch her.

Any advice/opinion would be appreciated. I have already grown to love that little girl.

And sorry for the long post, just trying to explain.
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