BY: GRACE PANG

Hamsters!!

HamstersHamsters have different species:

- Dwarf Campbell Russian hamster

- Syrian hamster

- Dwarf winter white Russian hamster

- Roborovski hamster

- Chinese hamster

- European hamster

How to choose a hamsterYou can tell whether the hamster is healthy by look-ing for:- Bright eyes- Energetic and full power- Bright and shiny fur- Making sure there are no cuts or wounds- Healthy, hard teeth

IMPORTANT INFORMA-TION

Hamsters hide their food in their cages, so you will find your hamster’s plate empty. Don’t fill it up all the time because they might eat too much and die. Remem-ber that they have more than enough food hidden so don’t always fill up the plate!

When you buy hamster seeds, make sure it does not contain Ethoxyquin, which is harmful to small ani-mals and can cause cancer and other diseases.

Don’t feed too much food that contain a lot of sugar to your hamster. Feed them fresh vegetables and fruits.

DID YOU KNOW?

• You can control the gender of the hamsters; when a hamster is pregnant and you keep them in warm places, its babies will have more boys and if you keep them in cold places, the babies will have more girls.

• The male hamster gets jealous of the female ham-sters, for they have babies, so the males eat the baby hamsters, but after it’s a week old, they don’t get eaten.

• If you give hamsters dog biscuit, which is hard, they will start chewing on them and not the bars of the cage.

• Most male hamsters live longer than female hamsters.

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