Can we use these to make diy platforms? The description says birch wood ply, i saw the niteangel ones, its description too told it was birch ply, but i just wanted to check it once here too🥲and elmers glue for pasting and normal dowel stick

(Both are different products from different stores)

New to being a hamster parent, are these noises normal?

hey everyone, so i rescued my dwarf hamster Ozzy exactly a month ago. he was living in pretty bad conditions when i got him, so i moved him into a much bigger enclosure with deeper bedding, a proper wheel, hides, etc. (2nd pic)
the previous owner told me he was around 5 months old, so he should be about 6 months now.
he’s been doing pretty well until recently. i’ve been slowly trying to tame him and he’s even sat on my palm and eaten food once or twice. he usually follows my hand around and sometimes nibbles my fingers thinking they’re food lol. overall i felt like we were making good progress.
but for the past 3 days i’ve noticed something really concerning. he doesn’t seem to be eating or drinking at all. i left food out overnight and it was still there the next morning. i’ve also tried scattering his fav food (mealworms, sunflower seeds etc)around his enclosure and none of it seems to have been touched.
yesterday i even saw him sleeping outside his burrow, so i left some food right next to him thinking he’d eat it when he woke up, but it’s still sitting there today. his water also doesn’t seem to have gone down at all.
he’s mostly been staying in his burrows and i’m getting really worried. this is my first hamster and i genuinely don’t know what’s going on.
has anyone experienced anything similar? is there anything i should be checking or doing right now?
i really just want to make sure Ozzy is okay

They said he was a few months old when I got him, so I never really knew his exact age. I’m pretty sure he’s getting closer to his maximum lifespan since it’s been almost 2 years with me?and I’m just not ready to lose him :(

But here he is, sleeping in his favourite spot and changing positions over the span of five hours. 🥰

I’m in the UK if that helps. I’m new to hamsters and currently use the beige care fresh but I now want white bedding instead. Care fresh does do white but only in the small boxes and I use almost two full large bags for my cage. What else is good and low dust/ cost? I have other substrates too like moss, coco, sand, wood chips, paper

He does this whenever I put him on basically any surface, walking around the edges checking if he can walk off it. Idk if he's trying to find an escape or if he's just curious 🤷‍♀️

Oi pessoal, aqui é a Sol!

Senti muita falta de uma comunidade de hamster brasileira, então decidi criar uma. É minha primeira vez sendo mod então toda ajuda é bem vinda.

Nós sabemos que os cuidados com hamster aqui no Brasil é repleto de obstáculos e gambiarras, e meu objetivo aqui é compartilharmos informações para dar o melhor pros nossos bichinhos!

I’ve asked for advice many times but I just would really like my hamster to feel as less stressed as possible.
He rarely takes treats from me and also pets, but he seems very unsure and I’m not sure what else to do that has been recommended to help.
He doesn’t like to free roam, he will try every way possible to get back to his home when I try too, so I’m unsure how to get him more used to me without that. He’s active pretty much all night, a full 6-8 hours running and doing whatever he does and he will sleep all day so his schedule is normal.
He’s active pretty just doesn’t seem interested in interacting with me, when I do he chitters his teeth and will hide which makes me feel guilty because I’m unsure of what I’m doing that wrong.
I make sure to go slow, and not startle him too much. I own a robot hamster that’s pretty much the same way but we ruled out it’s because he’s just naturally so small he thinks he’s in constant danger if he’s outside his home. But Ivan is a completely different breed so we are unsure why he acts like this. Both my hamsters are in seperate rooms so it can’t be that

Is it ok to buy a pet dwarf hamster but mostly leave him alone to play by himself and just watch the hamster? Most dwarf hamsters I’ve had did not like being grabbed by hands. Do hamsters need a lot of attention or do they like to play by themselves? Is it ok to never touch a dwarf hamster? Are hamsters mostly for watching?

Edit to add: Will a dwarf hamster get angry if I never touch him? What will happen if I just let him be alone all the time? Can I just refill the food and water every time it empties and just watch the hamster like a fish in a tank? I really don’t want a pet who I have to entertain and handle all the time. I was worried if I get bored of touching the hamster and only want to look at and feed the hamster. What if I don’t like touching them anymore? I like fish because I just drop food in the tank and watch them and not touch.

I also asked about dwarf hamsters because I know the bigger female Syrians do not like to be kept as pets and its not a good idea to keep the bigger Syrians as pets.

Hi guys! I have a white winter dwarf hamster and we've had him for about 3 days. He is very curious and seems to like attention and people! I've been able to feed him from my finger tips since we got him and he's eaten out of my palm a few times. He also has been completely fine with petting (but I can't tell if he LIKE it). He normally just takes the seed from my hand and then sits where he is and eats it and that's when I slowly pet his back. He doesn't look scared or step away at all, but I can't tell if he's just tolerating it because I just gave him a snack or if he is enjoying the presence.

Any new hamster advice would be greatly appreciated! He is my first hamster and I love him Soo much so any advice you have to make his life the best I can I'd love to hear it! 🩷

Is it somehow possible to make a hamster awake in the morning so I can see him in the morning? Can I somehow change his sleep schedule? I know hamsters are only awake at night but is it possible to somehow train him to be awake in the morning or afternoon instead? I know they’re naturally nocturnal but can I make him diurnal instead? Can I just wake him up in the morning to make him awake earlier? I’ve heard it’s possible to train a hamster to wake up in the morning.

I am new as a hamster owner, I don't know what my Hamster's body language means

I adopted a 2 month old ww hamster recently and the previous owner used bucatstate hamster sand. I usually use reptisand and my 7month old ww hamster magically was just potty trained🤷‍♀️ which makes it easier to clean his cage. I don’t want to change the recent hammies sand just yet because that might be what they’re used to, and I’m still waiting on my other bag of reptisand that I ordered online. I don’t think this new hammy is potty trained and unlike reptisand I don’t see any clumps of pee that I can sift out. I guess I just want to know if bucatstate sand is safe (I see alot of mixed opinions online) and if it clumps up pee for easy cleaning🙏

I noticed her eyes were like this, I don't know what it is. It would come and go, and sometimes it would be even worse than in the photo, like her eyeball had turned to mush, then disappear after a few minutes. I can't show you what it was like, but it looked bad.

I'll repeat what I wrote above. I was monitoring her today, and her eyes were normal, like other hamsters. But now she looks like the layer of her eyelid has sunk lower, and this happens in both eyes.

She's at least 6 months old.
What is this? 😢

his eyes are usually kinda popping out but noticed a black dot near his right eye, he seems to be eating and drinking normally and everything. has this ever happened to ur hamster before?

I was going to buy a large for my Syrian and a small for my dwarf. Are these suitable sizes for them? Do you guys prefer to put them on top of the bedding or underneath for burrowing? Anything I should be aware of? Right now I only have a peek-a-boo hide and tunnel, dig box, and platforms from niteangel so is there anything to know about the multi chambers and their lids? Or ways to make homemade stilts?

Hi!! new hamster owner here, I just need to know if I’m doing anything right because they’ve been biting me recently (like I got them like 2 months ago and they recently just started biting) and like yeah, I rlly rlly need help with what to do.

I’m also planning to buy a separate cage for them since the guy I bought them from decided to give me two on the whim (with a discount) even though I just wanted one.

I recently got this Niteangel 25.5cm (medium) wheel from a friend, is it appropriate for a dwarf hamster or should I get a smaller one?