Hi I just joined here, I found this site through another rodent-related forum.
I currently own 3 Roborovski's and one Syrian, all girls. They are all lovely with lots of character!
This time last year I did have 5 Robos, but I lost two this year. They are still young only 1 year old. The first one I don't know what happened, I found her half eaten. They don't fight (since I removed the bully) and all looked healthy up until then.
The second I lost just today.
When I found her body, I discovered she had a massive lump on her belly. It's as though this lump appeared overnight as she seemed fine up until I found her this morning. I handle her every week and check them all over at cage cleaning time. It looked like a tumour but they surely don't appear overnight and so big? I have a picture but it's not something I want to display on a family forum (actually I wanted my vet to see it to see if she had any ideas on what happened). I wish I caught it or seen some kind of sign earlier, at least I could have gotten the vet to make her passing easier.
This girl was the bully mentioned in the previous paragraph, she lived on her own and seemed to enjoy having her own space. She was never handleable unlike the others though, and she was a biter. She also had a spinning problem but it was only an occasional thing. Poor girl didn't had much luck.
My remaining three are doing great. These girls are very tame and easy to handle. They like to climb about my hands and nibble my fingers!
My Syrian girl is really cute. Her ears are huge! She is an albino with a lovely silky coat unlike all other hamsters I have seen as well. She is quite odd looking for a hamster but in an extremely cute way! She is fairly new to the household so I haven't figured out a name for her yet.
Along with the hammies I also have 10 Rats, 4 Ferrets and 3 Border Collies.
Hello there
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