Is she for eats

[starshme]

I just got my first hybrid and the learning curve is steep! His name is Maximus and he's got half the house wrapped around his surprisingly gigantic paws. After having only Syrians, he's quite a change.

He's so spazzy, which I expected but he's also friendly which I wasn't. He tries to chew everything, including skin and fingers. Is this a hybrid thing? My syrians always seemed to instinctively know that we weren't food.

He doesn't bite, he sort of scrapes his teeth over skin and then goes on to the next thing...

[NiceCrocs]

Hehe! I dunno if it is or isn't normal, I'm not very versed in the ways of Russian dwarves, but he sounds adorable! ��

[starshme]

He is. I can't take it - my kids are tired of hearing about how amusing I find him. lol We have guests staying with us and they are also sick of hearing about him. I admit the nipping thing makes me a little nervous though... like one of these times he's going to go in for a nice big bite.

[ianpallen]

I have had female and male WW hybrids and I found the males I had bite but the females dont. I had a male syrian and he bit hard and drew blood. It took half hour for the bleeding to stop. My Robo does not come near me so he will never bite. Even when I catch him and pick him up, he never bites.

[starshme]

I've never been bitten by a hamster or gerbil but given the length of their teeth, I can imagine it's not a pleasant experience. I'd prefer to avoid it, if at all possible. He keeps rolling around in his sand and his substrate - he looks like a little furry ball and then he pops out and looks up with those huge black eyes. I'd squeeze him but... the teeth. lol

[BrainGirl]

Hehehe they are cute aren't they Your talk of how sick of hearing about him your friends are reminds me of a poem, which is also about farts oddly enough...

*ahem*

Love is the fart
Of every heart.
For when held in, doth pain the host
But when let out, pains others most.

[NiceCrocs]

Margo have me a good chomp during our first couple weeks together. It hurt quite badly, but it didn't look like it was bleeding, so I went back to the taming session... Only to start gushing blood all over the substrate two seconds later xD those teeth are like KNIVES, man!

[velma]

My robo Hector does the scrapey teeth thing. Not every time but depends on what treat I hold out for him & also when I've been holding my hand out flat with a treat in the palm. I think he's just "testing" but I very gently twitch just to move him on. Not enough to make him go bombing round the cage. He hasn't bitten. Yet.... But I'm not mad keen on finding out. I worry that I'll jump & hurt or scare him if he does bite me. So far he's only gotten my thumbnail with his teeth & I can't work out if that's by accident to design. Maybe I'll grow my nails super long to be on the safe side
It's been a long while since I had a pair of Russians (would have been a Hybrid) & I vaguely recall they had a bit of a gleam in their eye...

[cypher]

I think it must be a bit of a dwarf thing but they don't all do it, Mickle has been having a bit of a go but Flynt never even has a nibble (unless my nails have grown a bit) if it's just a nibble or graze rather than a bite he's probably just exploring & will grow out of it soon.
Might be best not to squeeze him though lol!

[starshme]

LOL Braingirl. Somehow it always comes around to farts.

I figure it's an even trade - I'm entertaining the guests who are coming to see these guests daily. Today I had to listen to a woman tell me about her 'grooming day'. We were trying to find a free day and one day was totally out because it's her grooming day... I have to admit my first thought was that she was going to start licking her hands and combing her hair all over the place but apparently it takes a full day a week to keep up the hair, nails, eyebrows etc.

See, NiceCrocs - that's the part I'm afraid of... gushing blood all over the substrate doesn't sound appealing to me.