You didn't think that you can pamper your hamster???
If you didn't, well, sorry but you are wrong!!! *smile* These are
some ideas to pamper your hamster, without spending a cent or only
a few dollars.
If you have just a few of these things, than you are a true
hamster pamperer! *clap, clap*
A plastic ball: You know, those things where you put your hamster in
those empty plastic balls in which they can roam around in your house!
Feeding it alpha-alpha (once in a while) or honeybars: It's like a
kind of hay but instead of being yellow, it's green. They also come in
cubes. Honeybars are a great treat for all hamsters!
Rolls or tubes: Empty cardboard rolls from toilet paper. (Make sure
it's clean!) Or if you really want to get fancy, you can buy those
colorful, plastic tubes (at a petstore) creating a hamster "labyrinth".
(I have one of those and my hamster loves it!)
Nesting material: It could be as simple as pieces of tissue, or
cloth, to buying a sleeping blanket.
Salt or mineral blocks: They are blocks usually shaped as an almost
flat-cylinder or rectangular shaped. They sometimes come with a holder
to place on the side of the cage. They provide some minerals hamsters
need.
Better yet, vitamin drops: Comes in a small bottle in which you can
add the drops to the hamsters drinking water.
Gnawing stuff: Hamsters constantly need to gnaw to keep their teeth
from overgrowing you can help them by, buying those wooden blocks at
petstores, or finding twigs. (Although beware not to use branches from
poisonous trees. Or ones near cars. Oak, alder, chestnut, poplar, and
willow are fine to use. Then disenfect them under boiling water and let
to dry.) Or just plain gnawing at the side of their cage is fine!
Is there anything you would like to have here? Then e-mail me!
Last Updated: Tuesday, October 31/00
