How to look after a hamster

How to look after a hamster

Hamsters are the real lumps of joy. They are amusing, amusing and contrary to beliefs, are very clean. To purchases of a hamster it is responsibility, you have to understand that this small animal completely in your power and therefore care for it, is your first task.

Hamsters are kept in an aquarium or a cage. Both that and other lodge can be bought in pet-shop. In the same place you will be able to buy sawdust and special fillers. Arrangement of a cage, is an important point. If you want that it was convenient to your pet take care of a drinking bowl, a feeding trough and enough various straws of which the hamster will build to himself a nest. Today pet-shops offer already ready "lodges" for hamsters, however practice shows that animals seldom want to live in them. Much more often they sort them on the spare part and build to themselves "housing".

Hamster – the animal disciplined and it is necessary to look after a hamster in a certain order too. Your pet will conditionally divide all the territory of a cage into zones. In one corner there will be a toilet, he should be moved away every day, otherwise the smell will be surprising. In other corner there will be a nest, and at the foot of a hill sawdust the storeroom will be near. Storeroom, this very important place. It is impossible to pull out food from the storeroom at all and to take away it. You risk to put to an animal a stress.

It is necessary to remove a cage time in three-five days. A toilet as already spoke, every day. During cleaning move a hamster in bank or a walking sphere. It is necessary to re-make sawdust not completely, leave a third of an old flooring and fill up two thirds of fresh. It is possible to wash a cage with specialized means, or water with salt, soda. Once a week, it is necessary to wash a drinking bowl. Wash a drinking bowl just with water, otherwise you risk to poison a hamster. It is necessary to change a drinking bowl every month, it is guarantee of health of your hamster. Concerning feeding, the question is ambiguous. The hamster will ask to eat all the time, it is put in its nature. You need to develop the plan and according to it to feed a hamster. Except a forage, it is possible to give raw vegetables and special "gozinaki" from cereals. The hamster needs to be bathed seldom. These animals cope with cleaning of the skin. However for prevention it is possible to deliver to a hamster a bath with sand that will cause delight. Besides, there are special means for care for hamsters, however comments on them are not unambiguous. In general, you need just to look after a hamster, to watch his activity and weight, how he eats and drinks. Shortly you will get used to its habits and will begin to notice if something disturbs your pet.

Author: «MirrorInfo» Dream Team


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