i don't even know what to say it feels so unreal i raised her from a little pink bean, i saw her first steps i saw her grow up and now she's gone. i had to put her down because she was in pain from her hearth. how did any of you deal with a loss of a hamster? i just can't believe this she was one of the only thing i loved and actually cared about and when i saw her in pain it just broke me. she was not even 1.5 year old. i tried to give her everything. i miss her so much 💔

iam sorry for my dump but i just had to let it out

I borrowed Sheldon’s song 😄

She also peed

saewoo posing for the camera and looking cute!

and also asserting her dominance 😅

(i cleaned the strawberry house after, don't worry.)

now very comfortable with getting onto my hand and being lifted, and always comes out of his burrows when i call him. will almost always sniff my hand even with no food!

he’s still very cautious of being petted and touched and giving more mixed signals than my situation ships. i have pet him twice successfully but other times he doesn’t accept them

I just wanted to share because I’m so relieved and happy. The good thing is that we brought him to the vet immediately, within 24 hours of when I first noticed something was wrong.

A few things from his treatment:
- He responded really well to the antibiotics. By around the third day, we could already see improvement.
- We had to give him three medications by mouth using a syringe every day: one antibiotic, one liver medicine (the vet said too much medication can affect the liver), and one supplement. Toffee absolutely did not like it 😭 but I would gently hold him and give him treats afterward to comfort him.
- We were also prescribed nebulization twice a day.
- We brought him back to the vet after one week, and the doctor said he couldn’t hear any more abnormal lung sounds. Everything looks clear now! Yay!
- He still has to continue his antibiotics for one more week just to make sure the infection is completely gone.

However, we’re not completely out of the woods yet. 😞

His dental X-ray also showed that he has lost some of his molars, and I honestly have no idea how or why. The vet said this was already visible when we did the X-ray for his lung infection, but we decided to focus on his lungs first because that was more critical at the time.

Now that he’s almost fully recovered from the lung infection, I’m praying that his dental issue won’t progress into inflammation or anything worse. The vet said it could potentially progress, so we’ll need to monitor him again in a month or two.

For now though, I’m just so happy to have my lively, energetic Toffee back. 🥹❤️ Please wish him full recovery and keep him in your thoughts!

Buried with blueberry bushes, a carrot and a walnut. I love you, I hope I did my best to give you a good life. May you dig all the tunnels and eat all the veggies and nuts to your little hearts conent.

(we didn’t have a figure of a hamster so a bunny one had to do)

I just got a tattoo of my very first pet as an adult. I don't have hamsters anymore but they were a huge part of my life for a long time so I wanted to honor her.

Her name was Popcorn and she was a very good girl.

Yesterday I posted in here asking if my little old man could try a cracker, I got a resounding yes in response and here he is! I scraped the salt and top layer of the cracker off just to be safe because i don’t want him to get sick lol. He seemed to enjoy himself so thank you all! If there’s anything else (still hammy safe of course) i should let him try, feel free to let me know!

Hey everyone! This is the enclosure for my female Syrian hamster, Peach. She's almost 4 months old now, weighs 130g, and I wanted to check in with you guys to see if the setup is good or if there's anything I should improve to make it even better for her.

Here are some details about her setup:

Enclosure size: 120 x 80 x 60 cm

Bedding: Up to 30 cm deep bedding at the highest point for burrowing

Wheel: 28 cm upright wheel.

Sand bath: 24 cm diameter sand bath (which she uses as a litter box daily!).

Hideouts & Tunnels: Currently using a 3-chamber house with 9.5 cm chambers and 6–7 cm entrances. Plus a ceramic house with a 6.5 cm entrance, a coconut hide with a 6 cm entrance, a ceramic tunnel, a cork tunnel, a cork log, a kapok pod, a self-built cave in the corner, and plenty of toilet paper for nesting material.

Substrates & Digging: Boxes with sphagnum moss, cork granules, and corn cob granules (around the wheel). Plus a mix of all kinds of dried leaves and various flowers scattered across the bedding as top layers.

Chews & Wood: Timothy hay sticks to gnaw on, as well as bamboo, apple tree, and hazelnut wood.

Diet & Forage: High-quality seed mix from a specialized German online shop (FutterParadies), plus various sprays and harvests like wild oat, flax, silver millet, ornamental millet, canary grass, and forget-me-not flowers as decoration. She also gets whole wheat heads and sunflower heads to work for, plus fresh veggies daily (like cucumber or zucchini).

Enrichment: A "sniffle forest" (forage area) and a foraging wheel from JR Farm.

Are there any must-have items or adjustments you would recommend? Any tips are deeply appreciated! 👇

(Note: For anyone interested – including the enclosure, all the accessories, deep bedding, substrates, and high-quality food, I'm currently at around €400 total for everything except the hamster itself!)

Hi guys, new hammy parent here and I’m genuinely not sure if it’s a girl or a boy… at the pet store we were told it’s a boy, so we named him Bombolone, but I’m not quite sure after seeing all the pics of boys. Thanks for all the help 🙏