How long do they live?

[GhostsInSnow]

Name: Fudge
Sex: Female
Bred: No
Purchased from: P@H
Born: April 2012
Death: 26th September 2013
Age: 17 Months
Cause: PTS due to suspected Kidney Failure
Symptoms: Her breathing become really fast and heavy, she was gulping a lot and was just sitting on me not moving. I took her to the vets 23rd September where it was suspected either Kidney Infection or Kidney Failure. I had a choice, PTS or try 5 days of antibiotics. I chose to try medication and was told if she deteriorated to take her back. She stopped washing, stopped coming out of her nest except to pee and when I gave her meds, stopped eating (between Monday and Thursday she managed a couple of mouthfuls of baby food and not even half of a selective science pellet.) and was losing weight fast. I tried to syringe feed her but she refused it, really fought the syringe off. I took her back to the vets 26th because of all of that and her breathing not improving at all. The vet said it would be kindest to pts so I made the difficult decision to have her helped to the bridge.

[LanTsocial9]

Lightning, female dwarf, not bred, died at 7 years old.

I was amazed.

[Panda's_mommy]

hole cow, 7 years old???? wow, i honestly hope my panda is one of the lucky ones who lives way past his lifespan!

[Panda's_mommy]

Originally Posted by HammieLover95

Chip, approx. 2 months...met his end by the dog

without graphic detail what happened? did your hammie escape from cage? if not why on earth would you let your hammie be accessible by your dog? i have a dog who hates my hamster and he CANNOT get to him if he wanted to!

[Panda's_mommy]

Panda
Male Syrian
Date of birth: December 2012-hopefully many, many years from now!

[CapB]

Jack - female syrian - not bred - 27 months - old age

[OtisHam]

I had a male hamster Stueart Little , he lived untill he was 3 which i was quite impressed by, after he passed we got another female like him - both were syrian ansd both has the same markings, and she died at a year and a half! From my experiance the males Ive raised lived longer

[Call me Alison]

Oatcake, Male Syrian, DoB feb 2012, passed age 21 months suspect of old age x

[Bekki2308]

Syrians
Gandalf - male 8 months old - sickly pets at home hamster
Bear - female 21 months old - several generation inbred hamster born in rescue outlived all of her siblings, no obvious cause so most likely "old age".
Gremmy - male rescue so exact age unknown 30 months "old age" but also had testicular tumour and prolapsed penis near the end
Wynter - Rose -female 14 months old rectal prolapse

[Starrats]

Syrians:
Peppi - Female - Around 2,5 years old.
Sparky - Male - Little over 2 years old.
Lotje - Female - Almost 2 years old

Roborovski:
Frummel - Male - almost 2,5 years old

Chinese:
Billy Brown - Male - 3 years old

Winter White (maybe a hybrid):
Mika - Female - 3 years and 3 months old

None of them have been bred (as far as I know, some hamsters were adopted at a shelter) And they all died of old age.

Peppi and Lotje both had pyometra once in there live but they got better.