Among pets the hamsters rank third assured after cats and dogs. These small animals attract with the diminutiveness and unpretentiousness. Life of a hamster in a cage or an aquarium with pleasure is watched by both children, and adults, it is pleasant to pick up hamsters, in the summer with them it is possible to walk in the yard... In a word, if your choice fell on this small animal, it was necessary only to descend and get one, and can. and two (if you are going to part them) hamsters. But it is not necessary to take the first comers not to be upset if the small animal is a patient and will shortly die.
Instruction
1. If you have acquaintances who are engaged in cultivation of hamsters, address first of all them. It is unlikely they will palm off on you sick and impractical small animals. But just in case remember the main signs of a healthy hamster: it is dry free not bound together wool, clean eyes without scratches, a clean anus, absence of scars and hillocks on skin under a hair. And still healthy and cheerful hamsters are very active therefore you come to buy them in the second half of day when they do not sleep, and are awake, standing on the hind legs.
2. If you buy a hamster in poultry market or in pet-shop, show consideration for the choice even more. Unfortunately, often owners of hamsters seek to profit on small animals and sell them absolutely small. Surely ask the seller about age of a small animal: he has to be not less than three weeks old, otherwise he will not survive, will die without maternal milk. If you take already adult animal and it is a samochka (that it is possible to determine by close located openings in the bottom of a stomach), it can be the pregnant woman. If you the beginner in zoo-business, are able hardly to define the interesting provision of a homyachikha independently. So it is better to take either a male, or a samochka at teenage age: month or one and a half.
3. If there is an opportunity, do not regret money and buy a hamster in that pet-shop where there are veterinary references on small animals. However, even if your new pet according to documents is healthy, perform own inspection. Feel a hamster: he has to be not lean, with a hard tummy. The seller has to tell you everything about feeding and keeping of the pet, and ideally immediately to advise to buy the necessary forage, a cage, a drinking bowl and a wheel that on the new place the hamster did not feel deprived.