i'm gonna be a mom again!!!

[iheartu]

hi everyone haven't talked on here for a while... anyways i'm really excited cause i just came back from my petstore... i went there just to look around but then i found this adorably ugly hairless hamster ans i felt bad for it so i got it out and fell in love with it!!! :D i love it so much so tommrow i'm gonna go back and get him:p i had a hamster that i raised for two years cause it was the runt of the litter and the mom was trying to kill it so i felt bad and i took care of him... but he just died like a month ago :( i'v always had like 2 or 3 hamsters ata time and now i have none so i'm excited to get another again and be a mom.. just thought i would tell everyone cause i'm really excited:p

and don't worry i love and take extra super care of all of them by letting them roam my room (not at the same time) and a lot of extra extra TLC

[PetLuver21257]

*YAY*

You seem like you are a VERY good and responsible hamster mommy! Good luck! :) POST A LOT OF PICS! :D

[TiaMaria]

Good luck with you and your new pet.

[Moosley]

make sure he is kept on plain white toilet paper or tissues. shevings are too sharp for hairless animals and makes their skin sore, they also often have a lot of allergies too. oh yeah and no tubes! would be like sitting on a chair in shorts and your skin sticking to the chair, but would be constant for the hammy...

etc :p

[S t e p h]

Good Luck With Your New Pet!:D

[animalmagic]

Good luck, wow a hairless ham. Post pics!

[Sparky2006]

Good Luck With Your Hamster!

P.S. Post Thousands Of Pics!!!

[Ashcream]

oOoh good luck with the little lovebug, thought of any names yet? Have you read up on looking after hairless animals, as you probably know they have a few special requirements:p .....and piccys piccys piccys please!!:D

[Moosley]

I know someone who had a hairless hammy called Gillette LOL

how about:

Wilkinson
Venus
Bic
Nivea

LOl

[Ashcream]

LOL!!:D Makes me laugh when people name them names like that. I heard once that someone called their hairless cat Fluffy and also naming a black cat something like snowie is quite cute I think.

[TiaMaria]

To name them opposite of what they are is hilarious!

[dbl120902]

I had an all-black guinea pig who I named Sunny.

[iheartu]

yay i just got my hairless friend last night!!! i'm soo excited he's sleeping in my hand right now and yea i read up all day yesterday and so he's in an aquarium with cotton bedding... kinda expensive but he's totally worth it.. he doesn't have tubes cause it sas if he were to try to go down a tube it would break his little bones in half and i don't want that!!! he's preciouse... i named him Gus... i was gonna name him hairy though lol but i didn't think he would appreciate it to omuch :p
thanks for all your comments i preciate it :)

[iheartu]

i would send pics but mt digital camera is broke and i don't got a camera phone :(
i got a pic off the internet of exaqctly what he looks like though:) i just gotta figure out how to get it on here....

[bubblz]

I'm dying to see pics...that stinks your camera is broken :(

[Sparky2006]

iheartu, lol about the name! But it would be funny!

[TiaMaria]

cotton beeding...is that really good for them? I figured they would either swallow it, it would get stuck in their cheek pouches or it would get wrapped around limbs and cause some serious issues. I dunno..maybe it's just me but I wouldn't use that.

[MunkieBiznizz]

congratulations!!!! u seem very responsible. have fun with ur hammies.

[MunkieBiznizz]

hey TiaMaria!!!! thanks for your help earlier. BTW: I use cotton bedding. Is it bad for them? I feel really bad. really irresponsible because Oreo may have mites. Is there something I could have done to prevent the mites?

[Moosley]

Cotton bedding really is bad for hamsters and i have seen the damage it can do when i worked in a petshop, i was lowly stadd and had no say in what bedding was used (however much i protested!) and i watched hamsters loose limbs or eat that stuff and die.... it really is terrible stuff...

As you have a hairless hammy, you are right about needing the softest bedding possible though. The best nest material for all hamsters (including hairless) is white, unscented toilet paper, it is really soft and they love chewing it up into a nest shape :)

Munkie, there isn't much you can do to prevent mites as they can come in on shavings or hay or food or any bedding, it is just bad luck and all you can do now is treat the problem and learn from the experiance :)

[bubblz]

Any new pictures of mister wrinkles LOL.....Yeah I would use carefresh it's much softer than shavings. Cotton has a lot of down falls and could actually be fatal. I hate how they market things for a pet that could actually kill it grrr.

[MunkieBiznizz]

i heard that toilet paper would be a good idea for bedding. why is cotton bedding such a bad thing to use? its soft! wouldnt it be easier?

[MunkieBiznizz]

no new pictures of mr.wrinkles. thats actually a really good nickname for him! I LOVE THIS SITE!

[MunkieBiznizz]

i'll try and download some more though. HE LOOKS SO FUNNY. haha. :) honestly. its so funny but scary at the same time. :)

[TiaMaria]

Cotton bedding is bad because it gets stuck around limbs cutting off circulation or maybe even their limb! It gets caught in cheek pouches which causes a lot of other very serious problems. If ingested, it will kill them because it can't properly digest in their stomachs and clogs the stomach and intestines. There is a lot more reason, please don't use cotton beeding at all!

[MunkieBiznizz]

okay. i shall take it out and put in toilet paper.

[TiaMaria]

good plan!

[bubblz]

much better idea

[iheartu]

mine is made for hamsters... it's really expenisive compared to the wood shavings i baught for my other hamsters but it isn't cotton it's kinda like really really thin shredded cardboard but it says the smell of it makes your hamster do what it would in the wild like with building and burrowing of which he has... he's built three different homes since i put it in there :) when i first put it in there he went nuts!!! he was like dragging through it and barrying himself in it. he loves it!!! yea i wouldn't use cotton just cuase i would be afraid he would choke on it..

[TiaMaria]

Hmm...never heard of the stuff you are talking about but okay :)

[bubblz]

Can't wait for the camera to be fixed :D

[bubblz]

What's the brand name?

[iheartu]

uhh i have to go look real quick....crap i threw the bag away and put my shaving in a big tupperware thing....

[TiaMaria]

crappy...would of liked to know what it was..

[Sparky2006]

humm i'v never heard of that cardboard thing, but cool!!

[bubblz]

well if you think of it look next time you're at the pet store please :D

[iheartu]

ok will do :)

[MunkieBiznizz]

yeah i got some stuff thats made for hamsters..its not shredded carboard, and its like cotton,but if its bad..okay.

[bubblz]

Thankies....

[iheartu]

alright i will... or i'll just put it if i think of it randomly.. i would defenatly reccomend it to any hammy owner cause they LOVE IT!!

[MunkieBiznizz]

i think i have that stuff. mine is shredded cardboard though..mine is cotton. i kinda understand why its bad..but my baby loves it!!!! im going to change it if he could lose a limb though. :D;)

[iheartu]

oopsi forgot i already posted

[TiaMaria]

Cotton is just unsafe, my hammies adore toilet paper or paper towel, they fight over it :D

[Sparky2006]

GAWD i have so many email from this page, and there isnt that many go damn posts grrrrr!!!!!! its P*****G me off!

[PetLuver21257]

SPARKY! Don't SWEAR! :/