Sometimes food might not be completely digested by going through the hamster once. So the hamster will eat it again. I have noticed that the lighter, brown coloured poos might be re-eaten but the black ones are left. You can e-mail me at "helen dot brinkworth at dhassa dot co dot uk" (just change the "dot" and the "at" for symbols and remove the spaces) with hamster questions. Or use the feedback form.

A hamster can run for a distance of several kilometres or more in a night. So that is a lot of exercise. It is best to find a large solid plastic exercise wheel. Hamsters love to come out of their cage and run around a room in the late evening or early morning. If the cage has an easy access side opening then you can leave it open on the floor. The hamster will learn to come out and run around and then climb back into the cage on his own whenever he needs a rest.

STRESS – Many things can cause stress in a new mother hamster, including: disturbing her and her babies, age of the mother (she’s too young), or leaving a Syrian (non-dwarf) hamster father with the litter. In the last case, the mother or the father might be responsible for the babies’ deaths.

I've read that the average life span of a hamster is about 1000 days, which would be about 2 years and 9 months. The longest living hamster I had was about 2 years and 8 months old, which I figured out to be 965 days, pretty close to 1000! I know of other people who have had a hamster that lived 3 or 4 years.

Hamsters are crepuscular, which means they like to sleep during the day and party all night long. If you don't believe me try putting your hamster's cage in your bedroom one night and see how much sleep you get. This doesn't mean you'll never see them. If you give your hamsters a treat when you get home they'll come to expect it and be waiting for you!

In warm conditions or when he is asleep, a male hamster will let his balls drop out. These can look very big and sometimes alarm a hamster owner. He will pull them back when he is active, or if you lightly touch one. As a hamster becomes old, he is less active and you are more likely to see this.

Surprisingly, no. Anatolians tend to be "easy keepers", and an adult Anatolian will eat between 40 to 60 pounds of premium quality dog chow a month. As a puppy, an Anatolian should be fed a premium puppy food for the first year. Some breeders will use puppy food for the first 18 months, and then switch to a good adult food.

Many claims have been made concerning diet, but none has been proven to cause or cure arthritis. (The only exception is the relationship between high protein and gout.) Consuming too much food can cause weight gain, which increases stress on your joints. For every pound that you are overweight, you add an additional three pounds of pressure across your joints. Likewise, every pound you lose removes three pounds of pressure from your weight-bearing joints.

She has splints on her forearms, and she uses a spork which has to be bent and it slips onto the pocket of her splint in order to eat.

Most babies don't eat by mouth when they are first admitted to the NICU. Depending on their gestational age and/or their condition this may last for days to several weeks. We provide them with intravenous fluids (IV's) and may change the fluids to hyperal, IV fluid that contain vitamins, minerals, protein, fats and carbohydrates – everything your baby needs for optimal growth and nutrition.

There are several reasons why feces are attractive to dogs. The first is the fact that they are full of bacteria, which help in food digestion. These are missing in commercial processed foods. They are also high in B vitamins, which some dogs may crave. They do have some digestive enzymes in them too which again, processed foods lack. This is why bitches lick puppies all over, it is actually helpful to get some of this to the puppies mouth.

excellent primer on the No Shampoo Method can be found Here, but I will try to make a short capsule version. Basically, you use a solution of baking soda made into a paste with water as a cleanser for the hair and scalp. This is a very, very mild surfactant - just enough to remove dirt and oil from the scalp and hair without overdrying.

Sometimes they might bury their house if it is cold. The sawdust around the house acts as insulation, so provide more sawdust in cold weather. Also you could check to see if there is a draft, this is something which they particularly do not like, and position the cage away from any drafts. So check for both cold and drafts. When it is warm in summer they are less likely to bury their nests. Moving sawdust can be regarded as one of those 'cute' things that hamster occasionally like to do.

Leave her alone, provide her with more bedding and extra food. When she has pups, do not touch or disturb the pups for a couple of weeks. So avoid cage cleaning and do not vac around the cage. You do need to clean the toilet area of the cage and you can provide fresh bedding for the mother to exchange for old bedding. You might also want to remove the wheel to prevent the pups being injured if they are playing around the wheel when the mother runs on it.

No matter what you have heard, water is dangerous to hamsters. Even if they do not drown trying to stay out of the water, chances are they will catch pneumonia.