'Aggressiveness in dwarf hamsters'

Aggressiveness in dwarf hamsters

Comment #75 Rhiannon (12.213.80.36) -

Please help!My dwarf hampster keeps biting me althogh I wash the dog smell off.Does she need a mate?Please wright back she nips me!

Comment #76 jayjae (198.22.122.123) -

Hi my sister and I have recently adopted 3 (just born) hamsters. They are approximately 2 and a half weeks old.. When we brought them home they were fine for a few days, but then yesterday the chubby one out of the 3 started getting aggressive and easily agitated. I'm not sure if this is normal....What should I do? I don't want to abandon the chubby one just because of its behavior, but I also do not want it to continue being brutal with his brothers. REPLY???

Comment #77 Lahela (71.93.3.56) -

i just got my dwarf dalmation hamster yesterday, and it is the sweetest, lovable, intellegent hamster ever! it hasn't bit me ONCE! but , my brothers' won't let you even pick it up! it squirms and nips, and bites you every time you try to pick it up!hes afraid to pick it up, so he asks me to do it! how do we get it to be more comfterable and used to us so that we can pick it up!?

Comment #78 Ruff (60.49.62.217) -

My dwarf hammie (FLUFFY), , i bought her 3 months ago..i handle her everyday and she is VERY TAME..she NEVER bite me..

But recently, , she always "scream" whenever i tried to hold her..she bit me real hard until my finger bleeds :(

i love her so much, but now im scared to touch her :(

help me, some people suggest me to buy her a friend..should i?? she'll fight!!

HELP ME!!!

Comment #79 Harriet (86.150.48.59) -

Hey!

Im going to get 2 female russian dwarf hamsters.

Would you recement them to a 10 year old and a 14 year old?

Do you think it will be ok for it to live in the 10 year old's room aswell, because they are going to be hers?

Or would you think they would be to agresive?? e-mail me as soon as posible.

p.s

Do you think it would be better to have 2 females or 2 males????

Bye x

Comment #80 diana domiguez (96.229.39.188) -

hamsters get tamed over time u have to keep holding them its natural fro them 2 bite if they do dnt get pissed at them and hit them back or else it will get worse u have 2 give it time 2 adjust and the older it gets the nicer it will be casue it has less energy left :)

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Comment #81 Andrew Hurst (69.233.130.39) -

So I have two Dwarf Robo Hamsters that I've had for almost 2 months now, maybe 3. They were very young when I got them and I assume they are brothers, because I believe they are from the same litter. They are aptly named Thing 1 and Thing 2, as I couldn't tell them apart when I first got them. The names sorta stuck, so I never changed them. They are both peaceful as they don't bite or make noises (unless they are in their wheel or chewing on the bars. They are however very skittish and run like mad from everything. I can keep a good hold on them, and they seem to know me now, but they just frighten easily and will run off edges like lemmings.

I've noticed something a bit recently. Before, they were always together, they slept together, they got in the wheel together, essentially, they were good brothers. But lately, they've been apart, one always hanging out in the cage while the other hangs out in the pen. Now when they see eachother, they seem to slap each other really fast. At first I thought they were just playing, but it really is starting to look like they are fighting. They don't bite (least not that I've seen) and they still don't make noise, but they'll be put on their backs, and eventually one will run the other away. Now their almost always apart.

Is this normal hamster behavior? Is it mating season and because they are two males, they fight? Did one do something to piss the other off? They aren't agressive towards anyone else, not even me, just eachother.

Comment #82 cheezy poofz (65.11.227.218) -

i had bought 2 hamsters

one is a female and the other on is a male. when i had first got them the female had bit me so much my fingers had gotten sore.

the male never bit me since i got him. he is TAMED and NEVER BITE me. until one day i ahd came in his cage to check on him and pick him up he just bite me really hard till my finger bleed :(

the female she is funally geting use to me. which i am very happy for :D

then just the other day they were fighting. i had seperate them and put them in another cage. i figured one was in heat and the other was not in heat.

Comment #83 kaylee (97.115.32.22) -

i need help i just got a robo dwarf hamster and i want to know if it gets any bigger and if it ever slows down and not so skiddish

Comment #84 Jennifer (75.190.163.61) -

I got a dwarf hamster from a guy who claims to have gotten a hamster that was pregnate and he didnt know. But when I went to pick her up he had a lot of hamsters for someone who just had one. Funny thing! Well Aggie is her name dwarf hamster and she bit me the other day and I didnt mean to drop her. I feel so bad I love animals and today when I picked her up she screamed is there something wrong with her? I really feel bad she is only 45 days old it just scared me and she locked on to my finger.

Comment #85 MC from Pluto -

i just got my 2nd hamster too and i realised that if you empty the food bowl evey day and put the new food in the hamster gets in. while th hamster is happy eating in its bowl pick the whole bowl up and then skoot the hammy into your hands. you should also make sure thers always somthing for your hamster to chew on a chew stick or even a chew hut!

Comment #86 olivia (173.76.43.187) -

I just got a dwarf hamster and what if my hamster eats the kleenex.Also my hamster nibbles so what should I do.

Comment #87 Andrea (173.76.43.187) -

Hey I got a dwarf hamster from my aunt and I use gloves to take it out of the cage and it will nibble and it alreadt bit my sister and I.I don't know what to do.

Comment #88 sarah (79.74.238.134) -

Its because the hamster is scared, not aggressive, it just needs to get use to your hands. Just because they are small it doesn't make them aggressive.

Comment #89 tayler (76.123.215.199) -

ok..so i just got this little guy yesterday as a part B-Day girft from my boyfriend. i already own a teddy bear hamster * Bowser AKA Boo* and he is the sweetes little thing ever i mean he sits on my head and my shoulders comes to me when i "clikc" or "pucker" at him. even lets me hold him while he is asleep. was at tame as can be even on the first day never bit but but 3 times twice cuz i smelled lke cherrios and pasta * lol his favorit* and the third cuz i smelled like * Ting* my new little pet.

he might be still scared i mean its only the second day. but i talk to him softly and show him treats at his cage bar his sniffs and nibbles but if i open the cage and try to get him used to me hand feeding him he completly egnors the food and goes straight for my finger...i herd that dwarf hamsters go through a nibbling stage but that was by one person i cant find anything that really tells you about it behaviour at all..but they said it goes through this stage at about 2 to three months old..im pretty sure i have a girl??? but she is just ohhh sooo mean right now?

but we got her from pet supply plus and it think another reason she is sooo hot headed is becuz of the way they handled her..chasing her with a tube then forcing her to into it and then dumping her out on to a persons palm??? i have done the whole tissue paper, in clothes that you wear for a couple of hours soo that he will use it for bedding...i mean he attacked it and then this morning he like i said comppletly egnored the food and went for my hand!!! i talk to him jently and all...but i mean i want him to no im its friend and not a enemy or DANGER to its life..it dosnt hiss or squeak at me.and it acts like a little dog lol... it looks at me and comes up to the cage bars when i talk to it...is it curios?? or just mean..is there hope for little Ting?? i dont wanna take him back but me and my bf agree that if he dosnt get better i mean we will keep him but definatly get me a panda bear hamster or another teddy bear?? i love him to death he is funny as can be but i dont want one that will be afriad of me all its life... what can i do that involvs NO touching..but him comming to me??

and P.S..can other hamsters get jelouse of new arrivls?? cuz Boo like glared at me and turned his back on me after holdong Ting??

Comment #90 kris (68.44.52.230) - Tue Aug 25 12:44:19 2009

I was thinking about getting two dwarf hamsters and putting them in different cages so it would be just like having a say black bear hamster which by the way is my favorite species of the hamsters i have had.My point is I don't think that this is a very good idea now from what people have said on this forum.

Comment #91 Derek (92.11.63.249) - Thu Aug 27 21:22:04 2009

I got a female chinese dwarf hamster got it the other week its really doesnt like me and i have a syrian hamster and the first day i got it everytime i take it out of the cage its calm and it has never biten me before or my friends.

Comment #92 juliana (67.240.206.0) - Tue Sep 29 15:44:28 2009

My hamster is snaching food from me and i dont know what to do.

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