Hamster Report
Day 4 With Princess Pufferkin (I think I'm gonna shorten her name to Princess Puffkin)
She recognizes the sound of my voice now. As per the advice of a hamster care expert, I've been talking to her softly. She lets me hand feed her, but holding is still an issue, she gets skittish. Last night she let me hold her for about two minutes without skittering away, but she's more comfortable when I transport her via her Chube (basically a toilet paper tube she likes to hide in.)
P.P. lets me pet her for short intervals, longer when she's eating a treat and is calm. She hates being woken from naps, and if I put my fingers near her when she's just woken up, she'll nip, so I make sure not to do that. It doesn't hurt, but it's bad to promote that behavior at an early age.
Her favorite foods are her formula dry pellets, carrots, raisins, flax seed, and uncooked pasta. Her favorite activities are climbing through her Chube, playing tug of war with a chopstick (made sure it wasn't cedar or pine, as these can be harmful to hamsters) and trying to hang from the bars of her cage like she's doing chin-ups.
Her new habitrail with exercise wheel and other play things should be coming soon via UPS. I feel bad, worried she's not getting enough exercise, since her breed like to run about 3 kilometers a day. I have a long, tall-ish box I put her in so she can run for about 30 minutes a day, for now.
She recognizes the sound of my voice now. As per the advice of a hamster care expert, I've been talking to her softly. She lets me hand feed her, but holding is still an issue, she gets skittish. Last night she let me hold her for about two minutes without skittering away, but she's more comfortable when I transport her via her Chube (basically a toilet paper tube she likes to hide in.)
P.P. lets me pet her for short intervals, longer when she's eating a treat and is calm. She hates being woken from naps, and if I put my fingers near her when she's just woken up, she'll nip, so I make sure not to do that. It doesn't hurt, but it's bad to promote that behavior at an early age.
Her favorite foods are her formula dry pellets, carrots, raisins, flax seed, and uncooked pasta. Her favorite activities are climbing through her Chube, playing tug of war with a chopstick (made sure it wasn't cedar or pine, as these can be harmful to hamsters) and trying to hang from the bars of her cage like she's doing chin-ups.
Her new habitrail with exercise wheel and other play things should be coming soon via UPS. I feel bad, worried she's not getting enough exercise, since her breed like to run about 3 kilometers a day. I have a long, tall-ish box I put her in so she can run for about 30 minutes a day, for now.
