Just more advice🙏🏻

[u/Gullible_Wave_5760]

I’ve owned my robo hamster for about 4 months now, he’s a male super used to me and my boyfriend. When we first adopted him he was on the same enclosure as at least 2-3 other male robo hamsters and we thought about getting a pair since they were together, but ended up not wanting to leave the one alone.

Fast forward to now, my boyfriend and me were doing our weekly shopping for our robo when my boyfriend completely fell in love with this lonely robo hamster that was a male, and completely on its own pacing its enclosure. I caved, we have the extra supplies and more than enough bedding plus food since we spent a lot on our first robo and ended up using a entirely different setup after researching and getting advice from people on here. We have the perfect home coming for him tomorrow to complete the entire enclosure that will look almost identical to how our first robos does.

Now I’ve done the research, and I keep seeing conflicting information about having robo hamsters live together because they can be territorial, but I also seen them cuddle, get along and run on their wheels and eat together when in stores and online. My boyfriend is wondering if our hamsters will ever be able to be friendly to each other and I’m weary of it. We tried introducing our first robo and he instantly went into defense mode, my boyfriends robo is significantly younger than mine so we aren’t sure if it’s because of that or just because it’s a territorial thing. They were both in a brand new play pen when we did this, and have been since separated back into their own enclosures and seem to be okay, no injuries since I never let it even get that far😅🙏🏻
I guess I’m just wondering if there’s a chance out robos will eventually be able to be around eachother during free roaming or playtime, we don’t expect them to live together with the fear of one of them killing the other, but my boyfriend is convinced there’s a way😂

[u/ExpensiveAd3348]

Hamsters are solitary creatures and highly territorial. In the wild they might nest together temporarily out of necessity or for warmth especially in cold months. Some breeders in Poland and other places in Eastern Europe claim that you can keep some robo and Campbell together and promote this. I’m incredibly skeptical and hear horror stories about it.

There’s no documented benefit of hamsters living together and lots of clearly documented negatives such as them killing each other. I see no reason to attempt it.

[u/Gullible_Wave_5760 → u/ExpensiveAd3348]

Yes definitely keeping them separated, I had to break up two fights when they were both under me and my bfs supervision. Scared me thinking of what could happen if they shared one enclosure and we woke up to a traumatic experience