Daily hamster care

[lvandert]

I had a hamster for 6 years. Her name was Cloud, she was a teddy bear hamster. my friend had bought a hamster from the store who happened to be pregnant, so I got one of the babies when they were grown and ready. She was the sweetest little thing. She loved her ball and loved roaming around the house. I worked with her all the time and the ONLY time she ever bit me was when I went to pick her up and realized she had a tumor in her belly. I took her to the vet but they said she was too old to do anything for so we just spoiled her for the next month until she passed

[finnfinnfriend]

Wow six years?! Good job! Maybe it was the daily spot cleaning

[finnfinnfriend]

His name is Charlie :3

[LadyVictorian]

awwww, I miss my ham hams now but I started going for mice and now I have rats. Seeing how much my rats wanted to eat my mice I don't think getting a hamster would be the best idea.

[finnfinnfriend]

Haha! So can someone make me a list of what to do daily for the best care? I am very list oriented...

[megaredize]

I have 3 hamster two teddy bears and a dwarf. daily you want to.

-change water
-change food - mind you i do this every other day.
-play with them =D
-mine are litter trained so i change out the litter completely once a week but you wanna check litter daily. if not litter trained you can check the spot he pees in i would still change that spot over every day or every second. heres a video on my toilet training lol http://youtu.be/p7Sb8f5VuX0
-change bedding weekly if not litter trained. if litter trained you can go longer like once every two weeks.

[finnfinnfriend]

Change the spot every second? Hahahaha thank you!

[megaredize]

meh not even gonna fix that mistake :-p lol

[finnfinnfriend]

LOL. So without a litter box do you recommend daily spot cleaning? And with a litterbox at least daily checking?

[megaredize]

lol ya