Hamster - an unpretentious, entertaining and interesting pet. To look after him will not make big work, it is necessary to follow several rules only. Then the hamster will please you with the friendship and to run willingly to your hands.
Forage
Basis of a diet of a hamster is the dry grain balanced feed which is on sale in pet-shop.
However the hamster needs to give also the juicy forage which is in advance cut on pieces. The hamster loves fruit and vegetables, excepting a citrus. Carrots, cucumbers, tomatoes, apples, etc. will approach.
It is impossible to give to a hamster of sterns from the table: it is forbidden fat, fried, salty, sharp. The exception is made by the porridges cooked without salt. Categorically it is impossible also pasta.
During the summer period it is possible to give the fresh washed-up grass.
Contents
The cage of a hamster can include several floors, they very much like to climb short flights of stairs. The cage has to be not less than 30 cm wide and 45 cm long, in height not less than 30 cm.
In a cage it is necessary to buy:
- automatic drinking bowl;
- lodge;
- running wheel;
- two bowls (for a dry and juicy feed);
As a laying it is possible to use:
- sawdust;
- wood filler;
- corn filler;
- cellulose filler;
- hay;
It is possible to put a small amount of tissues in a lodge (without drawings and fragrances), so to a hamster will sleep more comfortably.
Councils
The hamster has to live one in a cage, it is not recommended to hold in couples of animals, they can fight or even to kill each other. Even for cultivation of hamsters lodge together only for short term.
It is also important to consider when choosing pitmoyets that males are less aggressive and get used to the owner quicker.
It is better not to walk on the street of a hamster, it is very difficult to follow him, and still he can be infected with some infection.
You should not bathe a hamster too, they maintain purity of the hair independently.
Water in a drinking bowl of a hamster needs to be changed daily.
Popular species of hamsters which can be found in any pet-shop:
Dzungarian hamster and Campbell's Hamster
These are the most widespread and popular species of hamsters. Small, no more than 10 cm in length.
Color of an Asian hamster smoky-gray, and in the middle of a back to the tail such hamster has a black strip expressed dark, most often. Light paunch.
The color of a hamster of Campbell can be a miscellaneous, beginning from an albino with red eyes and finishing black though red copies meet more often. The back strip is much less expressed, than at the dwarfish relative.
And here rodents considerably differ in character. Dzungarian it is considered more peaceful version, bites less often, it is quicker tamed to hands.
Such types of little pets can be found in each pet-shop.
Good advantage of small hamsters is that the cage is required much the smaller size, than, for example, for the Angora hamster.
At the left - Campbell's hamster, on the right - the Dzungarian hamster
Angora hamster
The color of a hair can have any coloring. Length of a body of an adult individual is 12-14 cm. Are unpretentious, seldom show aggression, perfectly will approach as the favourite.