Does anyone own a hamster?

[Steroid_Virgin]

I cant get mine to drink water out of the hang bottle thing, and I'm worried he's going to dehydrate.. I put a little bowl of water in the cage and he keep knocking it over.. any ideas?

 

[WODIN]

Grease him up and send him up the hershey Hiway! Then when you pull it out, say if you don't drink your water now you're going back in. Sure this may be fun for you but I doubt he likes it.

 

[HumorMe]

.. any ideas?

IV maybe?

 

[Y_lifter]

I think Wodin's comment is a prime example of this site going round and round down the toidie bowl of the web....

My Daughter has a Guinea pig and she did not drink for 2-3 days while she got used to her cage...

How many days since you saw it drink?
Are you watching it 24 hours a day or maybe it's drinking at night?
They don't drink a lot and maybe it seems like the bottle is staying full..

I would say if it's only been a couple of days and the pet is now to your house and it's cage give it another day.

 

[Y_lifter]

Also if you are really concerned about dehydration give it a couple of grapes or a carrot or cellery. Lots of liquid in those..

Not too much though..

 

[Steroid_Virgin]

Y-

Thats a great idea... I tried giving him a grape last night.. Well, I marked on the bottle where the water lever was before I left for work this morning.. So I can tell if he is drinking it or not.

I was thinking about buying another one to keep him company, but I dont know how territorial they are..?

 

[Steroid_Virgin]

Grease him up and send him up the hershey Hiway! Then when you pull it out, say if you don't drink your water now you're going back in. Sure this may be fun for you but I doubt he likes it.

That's a gerbil... not a hamster.. get your rodents straight young man..

 

[polarpixie]

You've gotta lure him. Take all the food out of its cage, put some peanut butter around the tip of the water bottle, and stick a few pellets of food on the PB. Make sure you rig it so that the water will come out when he goes for the food.

 

[Steroid_Virgin]

Polarpixie:

Ahh very good idea.. that's exactly the kind of advice I was looking for.. You are a doll!!!!

 

[polarpixie]

Polarpixie:

Ahh very good idea.. that's exactly the kind of advice I was looking for.. You are a doll!!!!

You're welcome, just call me MacGyverPixie, lol..

 

[Y_lifter]

We use corn cobb bedding in our G Pigs cage. She likes to run around and fling the stuff all over the room for a diameter of about 4 feet. It drives my wife crazy and I think the thing knows it and does it on purpose..bwahahaha...

Let us know how thing go....

As far as getting a room mate, most people I know with larger rodents only have 1.... Google here I come....

Google gave me this funny story though...........

Life with Edgar was interesting to say the least. The first week of co-habitation went smoothly for the most part, but pretty soon after that, the novelty factor wore off. Now, if you didn’t know, hamsters are mostly nocturnal creatures, which means that whenever you want to pick him up and snuggle with him during daytime you have to wake him up. A freshly woken hamster is not a cheerful hamster.

Added to this, his nightly activity consisted of running for hours on end in his hamster-wheel. Every time I managed to fall asleep, I would be rudely awakened by a squeaky noise from the cage. All attempts at stopping the infernal noise, by for example sticking something in the spokes of the wheel, were thwarted by the ingenuity of Edgar.

He also had the horrible habit of pooping when- and wherever the need arose, among these places my hand, when I was holding him. That though was not the worst part of his waste-disposal problem. No! Being a fastidious critter, he picked a single corner of his cage to relieve himself in, and through dedication built up a mound in that corner. This mound served as a sort of a ramp for when he had to urinate, where he would back up and spray his urine out of the cage and onto the table below. A week’s worth of hamster urine is not an easy thing to clean, especially when it has gelled to the table in question.

 

[Steroid_Virgin]

I was going to get a guinea pig, but it seems like they need more attention.. I'm not around home too much, but I still love my furry little hamster.. I named him homey... I'll take a picture and post it tonight.