Small Animals: Hamsters

Pets Plus source their hamsters only from responsible and caring breeders, they are quarantined for 7 days before being released for sale. Syrian Hamsters are generally gentle creatures which when nurtured will develop into rewarding pets and given proper care will live from 2-4 years. If you wish to purchase a Hamster from Pets Plus please allow 20 - 30 minutes during which time new owners will be provided with extensive knowledge on how to care for, socialise, feed, home and keep clean the newly acquired Hamster. Hamsters do best in cages large enough to provide them with adequate space to excercise, feed, drink and sleep. It is worth paying a little more for a good quality, sturdy cage from which the Hamster is unable to escape. Always check the strength of bars, some economy cages have thin bars through which they can squeeze.
 
Hamster Products stocked at Pets Plus
 Syrian HamstersA large variety of Cages and cage accessories. Food dishes, drinking bottles, exercise balls and silent wheels, toys, hammocks and tunnels.A good variety of foods, treats, wooden knaws, mineral blocksVarious Wood flakes and bedding, bathing dust, brushes and combsShampoos and treatmentsBooks

Illnesses
 Baldness - Normal in older Hamsters (10-12 months onwards) give powdered yeast tablet in foodSalmonellas - Intestinal infection transmitted by wild rodents, dirty water or spoiled foods. Loss of appetite, weight loss eventual deathPneumonia - Inflammation of lungs. Ruffled coat, loss of appetite, rapid breathing, nasal discharge, coughing, sneezing. Typically occurs if undernourished and damp overcrowded habitatColds - Lack of activity. Ears held back, weight and fur loss, sniffling and sneezing. Disinfect cage, bottles and pots. Provide fresh bedding, keep cage draft free, supplement food with cod liver oil.Wet tail - Highly infectious. Caused by tape worm and is normally fatal. Disease of neglect, damp cages and spoiled food. loss of appetite, ears down, jelly like fluid from vent, diarrhoea.Mange - Shaking of head, scratching of ears, loss of hair, poor general appearance. Check for parasitic spiders or insects. Results in grey warty scabs. Medicated bath treatment. sterilise cage etc.
 
Hamsters Needs
 Syrian Hamsters should be kept separate as more than one will fight normally to one of there demise. Russian hamsters may be kept in pairs or trios or if space provides in colonies. Hamsters are nocturnal.A cage large enough to provide exercise and varied activity (ladders, wheels etc) with bars firm enough to contain the hamster and horizontal to facilitate climbingA supply of clean water and food which should be changed daily. Fresh food debris removed daily.Wooden gnaws to keep teeth in trimSufficient bedding to keep warm. (shredded soft paper is recommended) Line the cage with wood flakes to help keep them clean and to absorb urine.Clean living conditionsCompany and affection

If you would like to view our range of small animal products, please visit our shop or feel free to call us for advice or to check the availability of any items that you may want.

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