CARING WITH LOVE

Environment Conditions:
Best temperature range is between 21^oC and 24^oC.
Humidity is maintained at above 60%.

Beddings Tips:
Softwood shavings, hay or straw are good bedding materials for hamsters.
Soiled bedding should be cleaned out every two to three days.

Handling Tips:
  Touch a hamster first by patting gently at its fur.
  Scruff a hamster gently by its neck.
  Hold a hamster only when it is wide awake.
  Handle a hamster close to the ground in case it jumps away.

Training Tips:
  Exercising wheels are used to prevent hamsters from being over-weight.
  Hamsters love to row themselves daily in a sandbath for bathing.
  A small soiled tray in a corner stimulates hamsters to use it as a lavatory.

Breeding Tips:
  Young female between two months and eight months old can breed.
  Several litters from 4 to 12 each time can be reproduced each year.
  Babies required 15 to 18 days to fully develope.

Curing Tips:
Disease Cause Prevention/Treatment

Tooth problem Too much sweets or chocolate Avoid too much sugar-content food

Overgrown teeth Old age Provide a grinding stone in the cage

Diarrhoea Too much human food Hamster mixed food only

Wet tail Too much soft fruits or vegetables Add a little yeast to the food

Constipation Too much hard food Give some vegetables or fruits

Coughs, sneezes and snuffles Too cold in the cage Warmth, swabbing away nasal discharges, vitamin supplements

Skin disease Too hot or dirty beddings Row its body over clean sand in a sandbath and replace with clean beddings

Cage paralysis Too little exercise or space Allow the hamster to run in a spacious, enclosed area



since 2001

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