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Hamster Behaviour

posted by [personal profile] bugshaw at 04:35pm on 24/05/2010
Flash seems quite happy, in fact, now she's an only hamster she's started putting food in a stash (Flash's Stash Cache) instead of them both keeping it in their cheek pouches. From what I know of little hamster psychology, stashing is a symptom of feeling safe.
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posted by [identity profile] woolymonkey.livejournal.com at 04:01pm on 24/05/2010
Sounds like she's going to enjoy having the place to herself :)
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posted by [identity profile] bugshaw.livejournal.com at 07:58am on 25/05/2010
I think so! There is a definite Stash corner, and Bedding corner (on top of the stash), and Toilet corner, unlike the mix-everything-together-and-sleep-somewhere-different-every-night dynamic when they were together.
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posted by [identity profile] techiebabe.livejournal.com at 04:08pm on 24/05/2010
Oh good! Pleased to hear she is doing well.
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posted by [identity profile] nellorat.livejournal.com at 01:00am on 25/05/2010
I always thought that, unlike rats, hamsters were solitary. Actually, I wish it were "always": before we got converted to rats, we tried keeping two female hamsters together (Lily and Maggie), and Lily injured Maggie's eye so badly it had to be surgically removed. Obviously, the got separate cages, and Maggie was a happy one-eyed hamster. But anyway, yeah, happy alone!
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posted by [identity profile] bugshaw.livejournal.com at 07:56am on 25/05/2010
Roborovski hamsters (usually) like to live in groups with their littermates, unlike most types of hamster, and they did seem happy together. I do hanker after rats occasionally!
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posted by [identity profile] nellorat.livejournal.com at 04:26pm on 25/05/2010
I had never heard of Roborovski hamsters (I cop to reading LJ sporadically, so you probably said it but I missed it). Truly AKICIF--or AKICILJ. Apparently some people refer to them as robo hamsters, which is nicely scientifictional.

I have heard of even Syrian hamsters living together, but only if they are from the same litter and raised together; in one case, a vet neutered two brothers so they could keep living together.

We've given up on introducing two intact adult male rats to each other: they can get along, but they can also fight horribly. (The only times [livejournal.com profile] womzilla and I have needed medical help for a bite were when we tried to break up a fight between two intact bucks. Because I'm diabetic, the hospital gave me IV antibiotics for one such bite!) An adult male will accept male babies, though, and a neutered male can live with either males or females.

One advantage of rats is that you could have two to four of different ages in one cage and so have affectionate consolation when one dies. I often say, "The only cure for ratsie grief is ratsie love."

I love "Flash's Stash Cache."
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