How do you get a hamster to wake up ealier?

[Dobby]

Alright, I know Hamsters are Nocturnal by nature, btu seriously, how can I wake the guy up?

He sleeps from around 7am, to 10pm. Consquently I can't get much sleep well hes running ont he wheel.

Is there any way I can get Dobby to wake up a few hours ealier?

[LilSnooPydOG]

Some people say that if you wake them up each day in the morning, they will start to get in the habit of waking up at that time. Just like humans, if we got up at 7:00 am each day, eventually we would just naturally do it. I don't know if this would work, but you could try?

By using that method, I think each day you wake them up 10 minutes earlier then you did the day before. So if one day you woke them up at 9:30 am, the next day would be 9:20 am.

I myself am used to my hamsters schedule, and can let her out for at least an hour while we are both awake. And that's just weekdays, on weekends I could stay up all night with her if I really wanted to. Her schedule works for me, though. She gets up a little bit before I go to bed, and holding her is a nice way to relax myself. She's asleep when I wake up at about 6:30 am, and that's OK because I have no time for her then. And when I get home from school at about 3:00 pm, she's asleep which is also OK because I've got things to do. And by the time I'm done with homework and everything, she's usually up for a while.

So you can either adjust your schedule a bit to work with the way your hamster sleeps, or you can try what I said in the first paragraph. :)

[Zouave]

Leave a peanut in the habitat an hour earlier. The smell alone will wake him up. Then, start talking to him and just pay some attention to him.


Eventually forget the peanut and just talk gently to him. Don't startle the ham.

I have 11 here and even though they are all in the same room several wake up much earlier than others. But when the others here or smell me they calmy start waking up. It is cute when I see their sleepy eyes.

[Dobby]

I think I'll try that slowly adjusting to get him to wake up ealier.

And I'll try the peanuts. Can you use salted ones? I think we have a bag of those...

Thx for the advice! :D

[Dobby]

Okay, I've another sleep related question...

My hamster keeps bathrooming in his home, and now I've run out of sleeping fluff long before I was suppose to. What can I use to replace it untill I can go buy more fluff? I've heard you can tear up tissues, btu what else?

[Tumbledown]

I think I'll try that slowly adjusting to get him to wake up ealier.

And I'll try the peanuts. Can you use salted ones? I think we have a bag of those...

Thx for the advice! :D
Nope don't use salted peanuts the salt is bad for them and they are cooked which makes them oily.Use fresh peanuts,the ones in shells are the best.I personally never wake my hamster up he gets up when he wants to,it varies anytime between 8.00pm and midnight.

[Tumbledown]

You can shred up kitchen paper,don't buy fluffy cotton wool type bedding , this stuff is dangerous to hamsters.The fibres can choke them and get caught round their little legs and toes cutting off blood supply.

[Dobby]

Kitchen paper? Like a paper towel or something?

[LilSnooPydOG]

Yes a paper towel will work, but it can't have any printing on it. You could also use toilet paper.

[pumkin11999]

The toliet tissue is great, and cheap too. I use aspen shavings and critter care bedding. They seem to like it, but honestly I think they like the tissue better than anything. I give it to them sometimes, but I started when mine had babies. I wanted her nest to be nice and soft for the little ones. It's fun to watch too. I ripped mine up a little, because I'm a big baby and I wanted to help her out, she was working so hard on her nest, but you can just drop it in and they will do the rest.