I hadn't seen my hamster in 2 days, and thought he might've died. I lifted the roof of his little villa slightly, and he poked his head out of his bedroom area (which is closed off separately, so lifting the roof, doesn't lift that "ceiling") like "dude ..." and I left him alone again. Hours later, this video popped up, lol.
I needed this because I haven’t seen my robo. I know she’s alive because her food keeps disappearing and I see footprints in her sand. But it does make me really nervous
Is she usually waking up earlier? Bc changing sleeping habits can mean something. But if she is just sleeping long, that's normal. My Syrian is never up before eleven pm, and sometimes I just need to sleep, and then I just don't see him.
Uh, you think ya big boi, throwing three stacks I'ma show you how to ball, you a mismatch Opinionated but I'm always spitting straight facts Throwback, I might throw this on an eight track
I wish I had seen this two days ago, because that’s when I started to not see her. This morning I was really concerned and decided to gently dig through her burrows. She was completely stiff, and her heart wasn’t beating. It really hurts to see her go, I’ve been trying to stay strong but been crying all day, she was only 3.5 months old. RIP Kiwi, I miss you so much.
Findlay Toone so sorry about your loss! I feel for you, when my ham past a few months ago I cried a whole week. He was my very special first hamster.(RIP, Cocoa💔)
OMG only 3 & 1/2 mo old?! 😞 How sad?! Were you checking on her water bottle every day?! Making sure it was working properly, etc? Sometimes they are just born w/problems too, and we can't always tell there is something wrong. I'm sorry for your loss. 💔
I have a hamster, but it's always good to know more ways of doing things, and for all those getting a hamster or even just wanting one it's always good to learn more about them and how to care for them.
My baby girl just died!! 😭 I am heartbroken, she had stopped coming out and I got curious, started digging her bedding, this all happened a few seconds ago! Found her dead body in her burrows next to her food storage, I am extremely clear of the moment my heart stopped to feel her body cold.. Prayers from my loss, she rests in heaven now.. 😭😞❤🙏
I always panic every time I don’t see my little girl, I look for her every day, I usually turn her wheel so the letters (Woodent Wheel) are on the top of the wheel, if the letters are on either side or upside down I know she is ok... 😄
My little robo is EXTREMELY nocturnal but with school I'm often up late doing homework anyway so I'm able to hear/see her. Sometimes she doesn't wake up at the normal time and that worries me but then she peeps her little head out as soon as I turn off the light and head to bed. :/
Here is a method Spot clean the cage and 24 hours later go through the cage and if you see some soiled bedding then you at least know they are in the cage
My dwarf hamster just died he looks like sulfur and i watched a video of yours with sulfur and i cried i just missed him so much 2 years and a half is to short.
One day I saw that my hamster hasn’t been out which was very weird because he normally comes out at the same time every day , so I tried the wheel method since I saw it on the internet and the next day I woke up to find my hamsters stuff wasn’t moved at all so I started to panic and I saw something in the corner of my eye and my hamster was running around my floor 😂 turns out he made a burrow in my draws and went in through a hole 🤣🤣 plz worry about ur hamsters and don’t let this happen to u
OMG that happened to me, but she made the hole ON THE LID!!! I woke up in the middle of the night hearing weird sound and oh my, that's when I learn how hard is to catch a roborowsky when they have a whole room to run around .
AMEN!!! I can’t stress how much I hate the industry advertising hamsters towards children. They are so far from being a pet for kids it’s unbelievable.
I remember when I hadn't seen my hamster for a few days. She was old and I decided to take of the roof and check. She didn't move like she would usually so I shook it slightly. No movement then I poked her and finally picked her up. She was cold and I remember that horrific feeling.
My hamsters have a weird feeling of time. Muji always starts waking up at 6am with me as I made myself ready and goes to sleep once I'm gone. When I come back around 2pm he wakes up again just to get cuddles and attention 🤣 11pm is the time he works out on his wheel and stopped at midnight cause he knows we go to bed 🥰
This reminds me of the time where my brother didn't know that hamsters loved to burrow so he got extremely scared that Beanz, my syrian hamster, had disappeared. So...the first action he took was to use the wooden ramp to dig up his bedding carefuly to try an find him to make sure he hadn't escaped. When he couldn't find him, he texted me while I was out shopping with my mom that he might've gotten out of his bin cage. So of course I panicked all the way back home and immediately found every single one of his cage accessories mixed up in the bedding like a tornado bad torn the place up. As soon as I opened that bin, there was one undisturbed corner in the opposing side of the bin cage, where he nested. He heard the jingling of his hanging wood chews and had the sleepiest look on his face and slowly came out. I bet he was hella confused and oblivious to what hadhappened while he peacefully slept. 💀 I was only gone for an hour when this happened.
When she was dressed up and showing the tools for the methods 😂. Thanks so much for this my hamster is always in his burrows and I get worried, thanks again! Also if it wasn't for you and a few other people my past hamster ( rip, Cocoa) and my current ham would be living in a TINY cage with only a inch or two of bedding with a horrible two dollar diet! Now he was a nice, big bin tote cage with 6 or 7 inches of bedding and a healthy diet! I'm so thankful that I stumbled upon your channel!
Usually my first method if I want to know immediately is that luckily my hamster made his nest in a hide so I gently touch the hide to see if I can feel any heat.
Both times this has happened to me they'd actually died. 😭 My sweet dwarf hamsters Delilah & Annabelle. I knew as they'd not ate the food or used toilet.
Just found this channel a few days ago and its heaven for me. I love hamsters but learned after years of having them as pets and being sick constantly that I was allergic to them. I didn't get a new one after the last passed. This channel gives me a hamster fix after nearly 10 years.💗😁
Them: "I see my hamster every night" "I see my hamster every second night." Me: "You guys are seeing your hamsters?" O.o Honestly, there are times when I don't see my little fella for 4-5 days, as long as the food is disappearing, it doesn't really bother me
I stay up rlly late (like 12-2) and I still rarely see mine but I do know she is alive cause food is gone and I hear her at night but I still barely ever see her
I am here because my hamster didn't come out last night. He used to come out a few times a day to play when he was younger, but now as he's close to 2 years old, he usually only comes out late at night. Some nights earlier than others, some nights without us spending any time together. But yesterday nothing as far as I could see. I heard him inside his house, probably chewing on a toy or some food, but still didn't touched his fresh food during the night. He's just fine when he does come out to play, so it might just be his age. Still I miss the fun we use to have, he is such a tame, sweet and friendly hamster who has had plenty of time outside his cage every day. The thought of fewer moments like that as he is ageing is so sad. I hope to have some time with him tonight!
This is soooo great, im always worried when i havent seen my baby for a day too, i usually tap around and crinkle the food bag to try to see if he will peek his head out.
The last time my hamster was quiet and I didn’t see them for a day our boy hamster turned out to be a girl and gave birth. Luckily 7 of the 8 babies are alive and doing great!
That's awesome, congrats. The same happened with my rabbit recently too, we were told he was definitely a 2 month old boy. Turned out she was an around 7 month old pregnant girl, the baby is 8 weeks old now and I love her ❤
Just a few days after watching this video, I thought it was strange I hadn’t seen my Syrian before I fell asleep but I thought nothing of it. He was nowhere to be seen in the morning so I placed some food around and marked his wheel like you suggested. I went to work a little nervous and when I came home nothing had changed. I started to panic because I knew something was wrong, but I still went slowly through his bedding to find him curled up in his forever sleep. He was just 3 months old, and the vet determined he was born with a faulty heart. RIP Basil ❤️
3 weeks ago my Robo Hamster, Krampus (named him and his brother Krampus and Kringle, Kringle passed after 1 year from what we suspect a medical abnormality, he had a hunchback) died suddenly at roughly 2.5 years old. He was so healthy and active, so it was a shock to me, he was showing little sign of old age. I knew something was wrong because I didn't hear him all day (I always could hear him digging and doing other things), found him dead in his nest. Miss him so much, he always was so excited to see me, let me hand feed him and even let me pet him. He was even trained to where I'd tap near his nest and he'd pop out and go to the play area to interact with me. Got another robo now, Ivy, she is still kind of skittish but is warming up slowly.
Hello! i dont wanna type a long long comment but you helped me make sure i had the right care before getting a hamster. i remember binge watching your and Victora raechels vids all day. I had a hamster pompom! sadly he passed last week of old age but I'm thankful l was able to give him a good life THX!
I usually make a gentle noise in her cage by rustling the bedding where I know she's not sleeping as this will normally wake her up but without me diving into her nests and burrows. Or I'll leave a treat somewhere specific and see if it's gone in the morning if not I will use the bedding method and then resort to digging her out
In my hamster case... well... usually hear him eating smth in his hideout or chewing on sticks... if not... Gotta check sandbath... "I see wet area! yeap he is allive". He also loves to eat while sitting on ventilation bars in his terrarium during night. Always leaving there whole bunch of seed shels. Smth around 30% goes down thru the bars so every morning on the cabinet and floor around I see signs of his night life XD His face when im cleaning it up... "Hey, you! Human! What you doing with my stuff?!"
Thank you. Snowball was my first hamster. She was abandoned and I took her in. your videos helped me know her age and PROPER care. I knew her time was close to an end 😔, your tips here helped me catch it the night of. 💔
I wish I had known these tricks in the past. Very good ideas, indeed. One thing I have done is switch to transparent (but tinted/colored) plastic nests. If I haven't seen my hamster for a day, I open the cage while talking softly and just set a treat about 6 inches from the front of his nest, and then scratch softly on one of the wooden toys in the cage. I can see my hamster just move ever so slightly, and I then close the cage. He goes right back to sleep, or better yet, comes out and grabs the treat and goes back to sleep. .
I usually shake his treat container :) Or i'll call his name and make clicking noises until he reacts. Then I'll see his nest shake. Sometimes he comes out, but mostly he will just rustle the nest. This lets me know that he's ok without having to disturb him or "rip the roof off". He normally just moves around and turns over and goes right back to sleep. He's a sweetheart and lets his mama check up on him :)
This happened to me before, and it turns out my little boy actually passed away. He only lasted a month, he died most likely of bad genetics. Still heartbreaking
OMG This has been my life all week! Lol I moved my hammy to a big new enclosure and I haven't seen him at the usual times since. I've been doing the sandbath technique (thought I invented it myself 🤣) all week to make sure he's still there, because the first day I was terrified he escaped when I didn't see him for 24 hours. Then like 3 days in he didn't use his sand bath at all that night and I was really freaking out. so I very gently lifted up his house and saw the bedding shuffle around underneath and closed it right up again. Whew! Thank goodness he was fine. Guess he's just been having so much fun in his new enclosure in the middle of the night that he's tuckered out all day. ❤️🐹
This last week has been like this. When Chester is up, it is too late for ball time, 1:00am and I must sleep. I have panicked, slightly and will scratch the substrate, which usually works. Not this week. He picks a tube to sleep in and I have scratched it, wiggled it, all but picked it up and shaken it but no Chester nose. The weather has been cooler, but nice at 65°F at night. He was more active this winter when it was much colder. Thankfully he was up at 11:00 and got his ball time, which he loves. Does anyone else have their hamster run over their feet, repeatedly? Chester aims for my feet and the dog. He is also smart enough to head for the cage when he is tired of the ball.
I rescued a pregnant female, and I only noticed the pregnancy the day before labour, so no Emergency bin cage, 30 cm of substrate, 1.7m aquarium, and no hamster in sight. I topped the food bowl every night before I went to sleep, and that's how I knew she was alive. On the 13th day, I finnally saw her and the 15th the babies started exploring outside of the nest. It took me 5 days to think of the food bowl method because I also scatter fed, but it is tottally worth it to try for everybody
I have two gerbils and I literally just shake the bag of food and they pop up like "Food?!!" They're always up for food, even if their food bowl is full lol
My first hamster passed away in February. She usually woke up around 8, but it was 10 and she wasn't awake. I assumed she was just sleeping in, so I just went to sleep and didn't really worry. woke up the next morning and didnt see any changes in the bedding, anything in the food bowl, it all looked the same. shook the food jar and called out for her, gently tapped on the side of her detolf, nothing was working, so I resorted to gently digging up the burrow, and as you can guess, it wasn't a happy find. Anyways, i recently (march 22) took in my friends dwarf hamster since she couldn't properly care for him, and the first night I had him, i just stayed up until like 3 am watching the cage to make sure he was ok. the first few days was obviously very rough. he was adjusting so i wanted to leave him alone as much as possible, but at the same time, he wasn't touching most of the food, and the wheel seemed like it hadn't been moved, and the bedding hardly looked touched. Honestly I feel so bad for how much i've lifted his hides and dug up his burrows to find him, but he seems to be adjusting and I've figured that the best way for me to check that he's okay through the night is usually to just put a bit of food right at the door of his favorite hide, and its usually not there in the morning, so it makes me feel better. I honestly do this several times throughout the day, just because I feel like its the only way I can know he's ok. Thank you very much for this video, because I really felt like I was just being hyper sensitive. I haven't really been able to find anything else about this, so I appreciate it.
Both times I have needed to check in their burrows my hamsters have been peacefully asleep in their burrows. Neither were old or showing any symptoms and it absolutely shocked me both times.
99% of the time it happens, the hamster is probably fine. - so true! I just got my robo, and I've been so worried about where he is if I havent seen him all day. So what I've started to do, is turn off all of the lights, and lay down in bed for a bit, until I hear him coming out and just try to check. I try to take a picture of him if I can to check his nails and stuff, and of course placing his favorite food near his hideouts. He usually comes out immediately after a meal worm is put in his enclosure.
I got luckily our little Ginger was very food motivated and his cage sat at the corner of the kitchen so whenever you would start chopping something that he liked he would wake up. It was very entertaining because you would first start to the the substrate shifting, he liked to sleep just completely covered in substrate not in a house. After the substrate shifted enough then you would see a little nose pop up sniffing, and then you would see his head come up, his eyes still shut most of the time he was still asleep and when he was sure if was a carrot or cucumber or something else he loved. He would sit up and stare in your direction until you gave him a piece. This was very useful because if we hadn't seen him in a while we would just start cutting carrots, we also had a specific whistle tone we would only do when we were putting a treat in his cage so we could use either method and he'd wake right up. We always did this later at night so we wouldn't disturb him too much.
My Russian Dwarf will travel around under her burrow during the day. I can see the bedding moving along. I do stay up to see her but she wakes up around 10pm.
I have really needed this video for about 3 years now... I'm ashamed to admit that I am a nest ripper... Especially with my first/previous hamster, Nutmeg. Nutmeg was a Chinese hamster, and therefore, even more prone to burrowing than other species. Now I have my 2nd hamster, Daisy, who is a Syrian... and I'm still a nest investigator. I suppose it's because I work 3rd shift (12a-8a), so I expect to see them at some point while I'm awake. I have actually used the food method, but not with this specific intention in mind. 🤔 Erin, as always, both informative and highly entertaining! Daisy thanks you from the bottom of her cozy nest! 😁
If you're less skilled with a spoon like me, you can draw a swirly pattern in the sandbath with your finger. It's easy to see if the pattern is broken by tiny paws.
Thank you for this, not seeing Bowie( bi eyed Syrian) all day gave me anxiety like no other. But I did not want to disturb his burrow so this helped immensely.
I had a hamster I hadn't seen in 2-3 days, and I couldn't see him in his house, not even when I looked. I was terrified that my naughty nieces had been in my room and let him out, so I started shouting his name a little too loudly as I freaked out, and suddenly his snout came from the beding pile he had made next to his house. And while I'm petting him, I began to wonder why I haven't hear him running in his wheel. I woke up in the middle of the night a few weeks late and discovered that he was running freely in my room. He got the nickname Houdini after that.
I was terrified because I didn’t see my hamster for 3 days. I ran to his enclosure and started digging in his nest where he sleeps, and he wasn’t there. I was crying so bad but I heard rustling down on my cabinets under his enclosure. I looked around thinking he might have escaped but I found nothing. I looked behind his enclosure and found the spoon that I use for his food and I didn’t know how it got back there. The spoon had bite marks on it and I was confused. I searched all around the enclosure about to give up. As I walked away to my door I saw the little beast staring at me confused on the floor. I SCREAMED SO LOUD and started shaking, I could barely breathe. Long story short, I ended up purchasing a new cage 🤪😭
Once one of my past syrian hamsters wasn't seen for an unusual amount of time. Her house had a lid so we checked it and found her in a pile of baby hamsters, they looked like lil pink maggots and we counted 9 but only 7 survived. Surprise babies.
I have an hamster which I see only once a month. All your tricks are very recognizable, I do them every day. I hide treats on strange places (I do that with all my hamsters, I have six.), shake the sand bath a bit.Check the water it the tip is still wet. Id look in his burrow once, and he gave me very gentle, but stern bite, don't do that ever again. I clean the cage every month, which is very traumatic for him. I always say I'm sorry, but it has to be done. The first day after cleaning I give him extra treats, and check twice as hard to see if he feels better again.
The outro XD also literally just freaked out that I've not seen my hamster properly for a few days. This happens every so often. I hear her drink and use her wheel when I'm in bed so I know she's OK, but damn I miss seeing her XD curse you little Pancake! Let me love and adore you!
My female dwarf is awake all the time. I see her during the day a lot, and I hear her on her wheel almost all night. So she is not a problem. My male dwarf does not. He wakes up at about 2-4 in the middle of the night, and is already sleeping again by 7. Because he’s a bit skinny and old, I always put mealworms in his favorite areas, to see where he’s been. I’ll also fill the spot behind his wheel with some bedding, because I know he’ll push it away. :)
:( I had the sad reality of that happening to me a few days ago. My beloved Dumpling didn’t peek his head out for his morning snack. So I left it. 24 hours later. My boyfriend noticed that Dumpling never got his eat his snack. We kinda ripped the cage open and sure enough. He passed away without any sort of warning of any health issues. I have another little guy named Tofu and I’ve been on watch. I’m so paranoid. But I can understand where everyone’s coming from. They’re small and delicate and you just wanna make sure your little furry guy’s okay. I’m glad this video came up so I don’t feel so bad opening up Tofu’s cage.
This video just came out when I noticed he hadn’t touched his food and I found him passed away in his sleep yesterday night...he was such a beautiful little Russian dwarf and I love him so much, keep having to remind myself I won’t see him again
Unless my hamster is old, ill or has had some concerning behaviour changes I tend not to worry if I haven't seen them. Instead I'll wait until the next day, and if I still don't see them I usually do the method with the food. If they are old, I'll or had some concerning behaviours I will tap on the side of their enclosures and listen out for rustling to show they've awoken - then if I hear/see anything I go into their nests
I think I unintentionally shifted my little Tremors' schedule. I'm a late waker, so I usually refill her bowl at noon. About 4 days into her new home she was awake for one of these events, and after a couple more times she's gotten into the habit of waking at 11-ish waiting for the food dude to come around. I've run with it, and do her taming sessions then too. She now only wakes up at 3 am in the night to compensate. Which is great, because by then I'd also be asleep and the room will be properly dark.
I never like to disturb my babies. If I ever worry, I usually crack open a stong, healthy, fresh food with an aroma they will be interested in poking their heads out for then gently give a couple blows of air onto the food into the enclosure. If they want to wobble out for a nibble or two then they will do that and head back to rest. Saved both of us the frights. :^) It's so funny watching them think about if they want to get up or not, like "👃... 👀"
My Robo is supposedly only a year old. However she seems to be slowing down on coming out, eating and drinking. She is in a detolf. When I have went into the bedding she was alive and seemed fine but still isn’t coming out and hasn’t touched her food bowl. She also isn’t running on her wheel (I know that because she pees on her wheel and I clean it every 2 days. No urine is on the wheel in a week) I live in a area where there are literally no vets who deal with hamsters, gerbils or reptiles. (Only Guinea pigs because they are really popular here)Literally. We have one about 120 miles(which is about 2 hour drive in a car ) away who has a exotic veterinarian that comes every 6-8 weeks and appts has to be made in advance. Which isn’t a option for a emergency situation. I don’t know what to do 😩
My hamsters really sick..all day he stays in his little house,I have to "Forcefully" give him food and water otherwise he'll be de-hydrated and hungry,he can hardly walk...The vet scheduled our appointment in 2 weeks as she's really busy...Does anyone know a bit about this?Im really worried he wont make it..😢
You could not have timed this any better! I have literally just walked away from my hamster after trying to find a way to see if he is ok without disturbing him as he’s out by now and normally out during the day but we had an emergency tank sos yesterday so he’s in a new home since last night and I was getting really worried. I resorted to using a dim flash light on my phone and eventually we found him then after five minutes he twitched so I was very relieved as we couldn’t see him breathing. Then I walk away to get a drink and then see this posted a minute before. Don’t worry I was able to use the light to cast a shadow from outside in a way he was shadowed from it as I didn’t want blind him. Thankyou for all your helpful videos x
I love how you explain how we handle it by “panicking & ripping into his nest & burrows”, yes! I’ve done this I felt So guilty!! Luckily he usually sticks close to the glass so I can spy on him. But he won’t come out for me & hides if he knows I’m spying on him in his wheel
This video popped in my head two days before my hamster died. I noticed she didn’t come out hee jornal time and got suspicious when I checked her Niteangel runner tracker (highly recommend this device as it tracks how much your hamster runs every night and is less than £20) and saw she hadn’t run on her wheel AT ALL so I left her fave treats out which she never not eats and the next day they were still there so I panicked and searched for her and she was in a very bad state. Covered in shit and barely moving. Took her to the vet and at first it was diagnosed as wet tail but turned out worse. After getting antibiotics the next day her foot had turned black and I went to the vet again and it turned out she had an aggressive lump near her back leg which hadn’t been there two days ago (I do a health check where I feel for lumps at least once a week) was cutting off the circulation to her foot and causing the diarria which vet had assumed was wet tail. She had to be put to sleep as the lump was growing fast and the new vet determined it was cancerous (she was nearly 2yrs old so not a big surprise) Always recommend keeping an eye on your hamsters routine and using a pet cam if you have to leave them alone for 24hrs since their health can’t deteriorate very quickly
My 8 month old diabetic Russian dwarf hamster passed away last month & a warning sign was that I didn’t see him much for 2 straight days. I assumed it was because I wasn’t in his room when he was awake & I just kind of left it & after 48 hours when not much food or water had gone (since he’s diabetic he would drink A LOT) I worried & found him asleep in his nest but when I placed him in the middle of his cage & was stumbling despite no real signs of injury & only one of his eyes opened. That night he passed away & I’m suspecting an internal health problem that I never picked up on since they don’t show many symptoms & he’s my first ever hamster (I’m 21). Will definitely try these methods for a faster way to check next time
Pro tip: Having nothing but natural light in the room where the hamster lives, can greatly improve the times that hamsters are awake. I have a lamp on a shelf in my bedroom, and that lamp would be on from when I got up, to when I went to bed. This resulted in my hamsters being awake at 00:00 or 01:00 at night... The lamp bulb broke, and I'm lazy so I never replaced it, but the very first evening of not having had the artificial light on in my bedroom, my hammies were up and awake and full of cuddles and energy at 20:00!!! The MOMENT the sun went down, they were up! It makes sense since they're crepuscular, and any and all artificial light will disturb that cycle. I'm so happ!
I own a 39 month old russian dwarf and before quarantaine I hardly saw him anymore. He used to come at the sound of the food bowl but his hearing has gone bad. I had to use tricks like putting certain food out or by using a little ‘rake’ to make lines in his sand bath and hope he stepped in there. Lately though, I figured out he’s awake every day at 10am sharp. Now that I’m at home my standup is over at exactly 10am so after this I’ll have some time to say hello to my old boy :)
I'm working on it very slowly, hoping to basically convert them all into my "101" video series but those take a lot more planning, scripting and editing that normal videos :)
I hadn't seen my hamster all day a couple of weeks ago, and unfortunately my worst fear came true. My little hammy has passed. He had a good life though, I adopted him as a "he's been here for months because he's grown so big and everyone wants the small and cute ones" hamster, and he was so precious. Lazy, greedy but friendly and adorable. He lived for 2 1/2 years when I got him, I put him at about 3 years when he passed. But he had a routine, he got up about 7pm, ran around, then chewed on the cage, I let him out for an hour or so and then he went back to bed. When he didn't get up, or chew the bars I knew something wasn't right. He's gone but not forgotten. Special little guy.
When quarentine happened, she didn't pop up when I came into my room. Usually she's running out to see me when she hears me taking off my jacket. That time she didn't, so I baited her out with a treat. Nothing. 5 minutes later she came out and took the treat. Biggest sigh of relief.
I’m a little late but- I hadn’t seen my hamster in a while, Pumpkin only takes what he needs out of his food bowl so I couldn’t check with that method . I started to panic when I realised that His wheel hadn’t move and His sand bath wasn’t disturbed, So I ruffled the bedding and he pocked his head out ( This was two Am and I had been awake all night waiting for him) but then I just left him alone.... four hours later he woke me up at six running round the wheel. Your dancings Great btw 😂💖
It must be coincidence.... But 2 days ago I thought it was pretty quiet in my 5 month old syrian hamster cage. Usually she gets treats in the early morning and was not there. In the afternoon it started eating at me. Looked in her little bed and she sadly passed away from a heart attack at a very young age.... Worst nightmare came true..... rest in peace little roachy
My hamster has been up all day has been sleeping since 8:30pm it's now 11:17pm so it's nice to have peace and quiet she is pretty old tho a little bit past 2 years surprisingly
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I hadn't seen my hamster in 2 days, and thought he might've died. I lifted the roof of his little villa slightly, and he poked his head out of his bedroom area (which is closed off separately, so lifting the roof, doesn't lift that "ceiling") like "dude ..." and I left him alone again. Hours later, this video popped up, lol.
Lol! well, I hope you have a happy hamster!! it seems like a big cage you have there!
how do i sell my hampster
Patrick Ormerod tf?
Patrick Ormerod why do you wanna sell it-
@@patrickormerod3472 why do u want to sell it? Give it to a rescue
I needed this because I haven’t seen my robo. I know she’s alive because her food keeps disappearing and I see footprints in her sand.
But it does make me really nervous
I also can fully relate to your description haha
Is she usually waking up earlier? Bc changing sleeping habits can mean something. But if she is just sleeping long, that's normal. My Syrian is never up before eleven pm, and sometimes I just need to sleep, and then I just don't see him.
Uh, you think ya big boi, throwing three stacks
I'ma show you how to ball, you a mismatch
Opinionated but I'm always spitting straight facts
Throwback, I might throw this on an eight track
@@shooberdoo you ok?
*woodsnhoods* they’re quoting a rap from a song because the original commenter’s username is “you a mismatch” which is part of the lyrics haha
I wish I had seen this two days ago, because that’s when I started to not see her. This morning I was really concerned and decided to gently dig through her burrows. She was completely stiff, and her heart wasn’t beating. It really hurts to see her go, I’ve been trying to stay strong but been crying all day, she was only 3.5 months old. RIP Kiwi, I miss you so much.
I’m so sorry for your loss, losing a pet is really hard. I’ve lost a cat a few years ago as well as a turtle a month ago :(
Rip ♥️♥️
Findlay Toone so sorry about your loss! I feel for you, when my ham past a few months ago I cried a whole week. He was my very special first hamster.(RIP, Cocoa💔)
Findlay Toone Happened to me a few days ago too, losing a hamster is the most awful thing💔
OMG only 3 & 1/2 mo old?! 😞 How sad?! Were you checking on her water bottle every day?! Making sure it was working properly, etc? Sometimes they are just born w/problems too, and we can't always tell there is something wrong. I'm sorry for your loss. 💔
You can tell the quarantine’s been hitting her
No what your'e looking at is normal Erin...
😂 same tho ❤️😂
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That's a tad rude no?
Xddddddddd!!
yaaaay im actually watching this on the same year it was made!
Right! Lmao 🤣 Think that's a first
Mood
I don’t even have a hamster and I still watched this.
Hmmm...
Same here but I have had them in the past. Just wanted to see if I had done the correct things.
hMMmM
Dr. Pickle same
I have a hamster, but it's always good to know more ways of doing things, and for all those getting a hamster or even just wanting one it's always good to learn more about them and how to care for them.
My baby girl just died!! 😭 I am heartbroken, she had stopped coming out and I got curious, started digging her bedding, this all happened a few seconds ago! Found her dead body in her burrows next to her food storage, I am extremely clear of the moment my heart stopped to feel her body cold.. Prayers from my loss, she rests in heaven now.. 😭😞❤🙏
Aw I am so sorry for your loss. I know it hurts, but I promise things will get better💕🙏
I always panic every time I don’t see my little girl, I look for her every day, I usually turn her wheel so the letters (Woodent Wheel) are on the top of the wheel, if the letters are on either side or upside down I know she is ok... 😄
My little robo is EXTREMELY nocturnal but with school I'm often up late doing homework anyway so I'm able to hear/see her. Sometimes she doesn't wake up at the normal time and that worries me but then she peeps her little head out as soon as I turn off the light and head to bed. :/
My hamster too he spends almost all of his time in his burrows
My robo wakes up around 12 am. But his wheel is loud enough that it I wake up in the middle of the night I hear it.
Mine is new, but she seems quite a timid little thing and she doesnt come out often. I saw this video and now I feel better
Honestly when I cook a good meal my hamster always comes sniffing around! lol
Aww!😍
I use to have a hamster like that, could never eat without her trying to get our attention because she wanted food.
if I make a toast my hamster always tries to steal the cheese
Same every dinner he pokes his head because he can smell since his cage is in the dining room.
Here is a method
Spot clean the cage and 24 hours later go through the cage and if you see some soiled bedding then you at least know they are in the cage
That may disturb the hamster tho these are methods to do without disturbing the hamster too much
You'd never be able to pinpoint droppings from a smaller breed like a robo, but you can tell with a syrian!
My dwarf hamster just died he looks like sulfur and i watched a video of yours with sulfur and i cried i just missed him so much 2 years and a half is to short.
Zackery Gregana I'm so sorry about your little hamster! Mine past recently and I'm devastated, yes two years is to short!
Lil Cocoa yup still devasted about his lost
So sorry for your loss❤ but 2.5 years is such a long life for a hamster! Be proud that you let him have such a healthy and happy life
woodsnhoods thank you
Zackery Gregana my hamster passed away a few months ago and he only got a little over a year 😢 I miss him so much
One day I saw that my hamster hasn’t been out which was very weird because he normally comes out at the same time every day , so I tried the wheel method since I saw it on the internet and the next day I woke up to find my hamsters stuff wasn’t moved at all so I started to panic and I saw something in the corner of my eye and my hamster was running around my floor 😂 turns out he made a burrow in my draws and went in through a hole 🤣🤣 plz worry about ur hamsters and don’t let this happen to u
Oh my daaaayyys!!! 😂
Pook it sounds funny but it was soooo scary my anxiety went 📈
Wow that sounds pretty stressful!
Good thing you found them! sorry but I just need to 😂😂🤣
OMG that happened to me, but she made the hole ON THE LID!!! I woke up in the middle of the night hearing weird sound and oh my, that's when I learn how hard is to catch a roborowsky when they have a whole room to run around
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Nadine haha yep same I have 2 robos and they r very hard to catch worst of all they weren’t tamed yet
AMEN!!! I can’t stress how much I hate the industry advertising hamsters towards children. They are so far from being a pet for kids it’s unbelievable.
how do i sell my hampster
I remember when I hadn't seen my hamster for a few days. She was old and I decided to take of the roof and check. She didn't move like she would usually so I shook it slightly. No movement then I poked her and finally picked her up. She was cold and I remember that horrific feeling.
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I'm so sorry💔😞
My hamster past in my hands I like felt him leave it was horrible
@@ninasnyder8218 that must have been awful😭🙏♥
That happened to my ham a few days ago... but she was only 3 months old.
@@jeffdodd7615 WHAT HAPPENED!!!
My hamsters have a weird feeling of time. Muji always starts waking up at 6am with me as I made myself ready and goes to sleep once I'm gone. When I come back around 2pm he wakes up again just to get cuddles and attention 🤣 11pm is the time he works out on his wheel and stopped at midnight cause he knows we go to bed 🥰
This reminds me of the time where my brother didn't know that hamsters loved to burrow so he got extremely scared that Beanz, my syrian hamster, had disappeared. So...the first action he took was to use the wooden ramp to dig up his bedding carefuly to try an find him to make sure he hadn't escaped. When he couldn't find him, he texted me while I was out shopping with my mom that he might've gotten out of his bin cage. So of course I panicked all the way back home and immediately found every single one of his cage accessories mixed up in the bedding like a tornado bad torn the place up. As soon as I opened that bin, there was one undisturbed corner in the opposing side of the bin cage, where he nested. He heard the jingling of his hanging wood chews and had the sleepiest look on his face and slowly came out. I bet he was hella confused and oblivious to what hadhappened while he peacefully slept. 💀 I was only gone for an hour when this happened.
When she was dressed up and showing the tools for the methods 😂. Thanks so much for this my hamster is always in his burrows and I get worried, thanks again! Also if it wasn't for you and a few other people my past hamster ( rip, Cocoa) and my current ham would be living in a TINY cage with only a inch or two of bedding with a horrible two dollar diet! Now he was a nice, big bin tote cage with 6 or 7 inches of bedding and a healthy diet!
I'm so thankful that I stumbled upon your channel!
Lil Cocoa god my food is like 14 pounds
@@roopleshamsters7294 mine is 5 or 6 pounds
Me: sees comments saying she’s crazy because of quarantine
Also me: *looks at her* she seems fine
1:48
WAIT NEVERMIND
😂 she’s such a mood
Usually my first method if I want to know immediately is that luckily my hamster made his nest in a hide so I gently touch the hide to see if I can feel any heat.
I don't have a hamster, so I don't really need this info 😅, but I love your vids anyways!
Same bro same
Both times this has happened to me they'd actually died. 😭 My sweet dwarf hamsters Delilah & Annabelle.
I knew as they'd not ate the food or used toilet.
Just found this channel a few days ago and its heaven for me. I love hamsters but learned after years of having them as pets and being sick constantly that I was allergic to them. I didn't get a new one after the last passed. This channel gives me a hamster fix after nearly 10 years.💗😁
Them: "I see my hamster every night" "I see my hamster every second night."
Me: "You guys are seeing your hamsters?" O.o
Honestly, there are times when I don't see my little fella for 4-5 days, as long as the food is disappearing, it doesn't really bother me
Adriana I’m really scared cause I saw my hamster yesterday night but i don’t see her in her cage this night. What should I do
57 SEC AGO?...I had to click I've never ever seen a video that quick lol
This is really helpful! My hamster wakes up around 11-1 at night so I always stay super late😅
@@SnowyFox-ue5jq sorry for your loss :(
I stay up rlly late (like 12-2) and I still rarely see mine but I do know she is alive cause food is gone and I hear her at night but I still barely ever see her
Bababa ogogo
I don’t see him all day but I definitely hear him all night :)
I am here because my hamster didn't come out last night. He used to come out a few times a day to play when he was younger, but now as he's close to 2 years old, he usually only comes out late at night. Some nights earlier than others, some nights without us spending any time together. But yesterday nothing as far as I could see. I heard him inside his house, probably chewing on a toy or some food, but still didn't touched his fresh food during the night. He's just fine when he does come out to play, so it might just be his age. Still I miss the fun we use to have, he is such a tame, sweet and friendly hamster who has had plenty of time outside his cage every day. The thought of fewer moments like that as he is ageing is so sad. I hope to have some time with him tonight!
I swere you have the cutest hamsters to ever exist ♥️♥️
This is soooo great, im always worried when i havent seen my baby for a day too, i usually tap around and crinkle the food bag to try to see if he will peek his head out.
The last time my hamster was quiet and I didn’t see them for a day our boy hamster turned out to be a girl and gave birth. Luckily 7 of the 8 babies are alive and doing great!
That's awesome, congrats. The same happened with my rabbit recently too, we were told he was definitely a 2 month old boy. Turned out she was an around 7 month old pregnant girl, the baby is 8 weeks old now and I love her ❤
Hands up if Unicorn Erin has become your personality too during quarantine 😂🤣
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Just a few days after watching this video, I thought it was strange I hadn’t seen my Syrian before I fell asleep but I thought nothing of it. He was nowhere to be seen in the morning so I placed some food around and marked his wheel like you suggested. I went to work a little nervous and when I came home nothing had changed. I started to panic because I knew something was wrong, but I still went slowly through his bedding to find him curled up in his forever sleep. He was just 3 months old, and the vet determined he was born with a faulty heart. RIP Basil ❤️
3 weeks ago my Robo Hamster, Krampus (named him and his brother Krampus and Kringle, Kringle passed after 1 year from what we suspect a medical abnormality, he had a hunchback) died suddenly at roughly 2.5 years old. He was so healthy and active, so it was a shock to me, he was showing little sign of old age. I knew something was wrong because I didn't hear him all day (I always could hear him digging and doing other things), found him dead in his nest. Miss him so much, he always was so excited to see me, let me hand feed him and even let me pet him. He was even trained to where I'd tap near his nest and he'd pop out and go to the play area to interact with me.
Got another robo now, Ivy, she is still kind of skittish but is warming up slowly.
Hello! i dont wanna type a long long comment but you helped me make sure i had the right care before getting a hamster. i remember binge watching your and Victora raechels vids all day. I had a hamster pompom! sadly he passed last week of old age but I'm thankful l was able to give him a good life THX!
RIT Pompom- Rest In Treats Pompom💚
@@bubz1352 Awwwwww thank you!
you can also stick a piece of bedding on top of the wheel instead of making a mark with a marker
I usually make a gentle noise in her cage by rustling the bedding where I know she's not sleeping as this will normally wake her up but without me diving into her nests and burrows. Or I'll leave a treat somewhere specific and see if it's gone in the morning if not I will use the bedding method and then resort to digging her out
The unicorn dance is just AWESOME!!!🤩🤩🦄🦄🦄
In my hamster case... well... usually hear him eating smth in his hideout or chewing on sticks...
if not...
Gotta check sandbath... "I see wet area! yeap he is allive".
He also loves to eat while sitting on ventilation bars in his terrarium during night.
Always leaving there whole bunch of seed shels.
Smth around 30% goes down thru the bars so every morning on the cabinet and floor around I see signs of his night life XD
His face when im cleaning it up... "Hey, you! Human! What you doing with my stuff?!"
My new hamster loves your voice, he always comes out when I put on your video, I got about thirty seconds into this and he poked his head right up
Thank you. Snowball was my first hamster. She was abandoned and I took her in. your videos helped me know her age and PROPER care. I knew her time was close to an end 😔, your tips here helped me catch it the night of. 💔
We do everything you mentioned, specifically the treats and it always works. I’ve been scared a few times in our 3.5 months of having our big guy!
I came here to avoid being yeeted across the multiverse
Dave Strange
Staer ‘ oof lol I was referring to her Twitter post
I wish I had known these tricks in the past. Very good ideas, indeed. One thing I have done is switch to transparent (but tinted/colored) plastic nests. If I haven't seen my hamster for a day, I open the cage while talking softly and just set a treat about 6 inches from the front of his nest, and then scratch softly on one of the wooden toys in the cage. I can see my hamster just move ever so slightly, and I then close the cage. He goes right back to sleep, or better yet, comes out and grabs the treat and goes back to sleep. .
I usually shake his treat container :) Or i'll call his name and make clicking noises until he reacts. Then I'll see his nest shake. Sometimes he comes out, but mostly he will just rustle the nest. This lets me know that he's ok without having to disturb him or "rip the roof off". He normally just moves around and turns over and goes right back to sleep. He's a sweetheart and lets his mama check up on him :)
This happened to me before, and it turns out my little boy actually passed away. He only lasted a month, he died most likely of bad genetics. Still heartbreaking
OMG This has been my life all week! Lol
I moved my hammy to a big new enclosure and I haven't seen him at the usual times since.
I've been doing the sandbath technique (thought I invented it myself 🤣) all week to make sure he's still there, because the first day I was terrified he escaped when I didn't see him for 24 hours. Then like 3 days in he didn't use his sand bath at all that night and I was really freaking out. so I very gently lifted up his house and saw the bedding shuffle around underneath and closed it right up again. Whew! Thank goodness he was fine. Guess he's just been having so much fun in his new enclosure in the middle of the night that he's tuckered out all day. ❤️🐹
Oh hey a relatively normal video.
1:49 - Yea nope we're still on this train. This awesome awesome train.
Love the cage behind you. So pretty and modern.
This last week has been like this. When Chester is up, it is too late for ball time, 1:00am and I must sleep. I have panicked, slightly and will scratch the substrate, which usually works. Not this week. He picks a tube to sleep in and I have scratched it, wiggled it, all but picked it up and shaken it but no Chester nose. The weather has been cooler, but nice at 65°F at night. He was more active this winter when it was much colder. Thankfully he was up at 11:00 and got his ball time, which he loves. Does anyone else have their hamster run over their feet, repeatedly? Chester aims for my feet and the dog. He is also smart enough to head for the cage when he is tired of the ball.
I used the wheel method once but instead of a mark I put a sunflower seed on the top :)
I rescued a pregnant female, and I only noticed the pregnancy the day before labour, so no Emergency bin cage, 30 cm of substrate, 1.7m aquarium, and no hamster in sight. I topped the food bowl every night before I went to sleep, and that's how I knew she was alive. On the 13th day, I finnally saw her and the 15th the babies started exploring outside of the nest. It took me 5 days to think of the food bowl method because I also scatter fed, but it is tottally worth it to try for everybody
I have two gerbils and I literally just shake the bag of food and they pop up like "Food?!!" They're always up for food, even if their food bowl is full lol
My first hamster passed away in February. She usually woke up around 8, but it was 10 and she wasn't awake. I assumed she was just sleeping in, so I just went to sleep and didn't really worry. woke up the next morning and didnt see any changes in the bedding, anything in the food bowl, it all looked the same. shook the food jar and called out for her, gently tapped on the side of her detolf, nothing was working, so I resorted to gently digging up the burrow, and as you can guess, it wasn't a happy find. Anyways, i recently (march 22) took in my friends dwarf hamster since she couldn't properly care for him, and the first night I had him, i just stayed up until like 3 am watching the cage to make sure he was ok. the first few days was obviously very rough. he was adjusting so i wanted to leave him alone as much as possible, but at the same time, he wasn't touching most of the food, and the wheel seemed like it hadn't been moved, and the bedding hardly looked touched. Honestly I feel so bad for how much i've lifted his hides and dug up his burrows to find him, but he seems to be adjusting and I've figured that the best way for me to check that he's okay through the night is usually to just put a bit of food right at the door of his favorite hide, and its usually not there in the morning, so it makes me feel better. I honestly do this several times throughout the day, just because I feel like its the only way I can know he's ok. Thank you very much for this video, because I really felt like I was just being hyper sensitive. I haven't really been able to find anything else about this, so I appreciate it.
Both times I have needed to check in their burrows my hamsters have been peacefully asleep in their burrows. Neither were old or showing any symptoms and it absolutely shocked me both times.
99% of the time it happens, the hamster is probably fine. - so true! I just got my robo, and I've been so worried about where he is if I havent seen him all day. So what I've started to do, is turn off all of the lights, and lay down in bed for a bit, until I hear him coming out and just try to check. I try to take a picture of him if I can to check his nails and stuff, and of course placing his favorite food near his hideouts. He usually comes out immediately after a meal worm is put in his enclosure.
I have really bad anxiety and as soon as I heard this I was so relieved and heard my hamster on her wheel :) LOL
I got luckily our little Ginger was very food motivated and his cage sat at the corner of the kitchen so whenever you would start chopping something that he liked he would wake up. It was very entertaining because you would first start to the the substrate shifting, he liked to sleep just completely covered in substrate not in a house. After the substrate shifted enough then you would see a little nose pop up sniffing, and then you would see his head come up, his eyes still shut most of the time he was still asleep and when he was sure if was a carrot or cucumber or something else he loved. He would sit up and stare in your direction until you gave him a piece. This was very useful because if we hadn't seen him in a while we would just start cutting carrots, we also had a specific whistle tone we would only do when we were putting a treat in his cage so we could use either method and he'd wake right up. We always did this later at night so we wouldn't disturb him too much.
My Russian Dwarf will travel around under her burrow during the day. I can see the bedding moving along. I do stay up to see her but she wakes up around 10pm.
I have really needed this video for about 3 years now... I'm ashamed to admit that I am a nest ripper... Especially with my first/previous hamster, Nutmeg. Nutmeg was a Chinese hamster, and therefore, even more prone to burrowing than other species.
Now I have my 2nd hamster, Daisy, who is a Syrian... and I'm still a nest investigator. I suppose it's because I work 3rd shift (12a-8a), so I expect to see them at some point while I'm awake. I have actually used the food method, but not with this specific intention in mind. 🤔
Erin, as always, both informative and highly entertaining! Daisy thanks you from the bottom of her cozy nest! 😁
If you're less skilled with a spoon like me, you can draw a swirly pattern in the sandbath with your finger. It's easy to see if the pattern is broken by tiny paws.
Thank you for this, not seeing Bowie( bi eyed Syrian) all day gave me anxiety like no other. But I did not want to disturb his burrow so this helped immensely.
I had a hamster I hadn't seen in 2-3 days, and I couldn't see him in his house, not even when I looked.
I was terrified that my naughty nieces had been in my room and let him out, so I started shouting his name a little too loudly as I freaked out,
and suddenly his snout came from the beding pile he had made next to his house.
And while I'm petting him, I began to wonder why I haven't hear him running in his wheel.
I woke up in the middle of the night a few weeks late and discovered that he was running freely in my room.
He got the nickname Houdini after that.
2:34 - if this is what my hamster sees then I don't blame him for constantly hiding from me underground 😂
I was terrified because I didn’t see my hamster for 3 days. I ran to his enclosure and started digging in his nest where he sleeps, and he wasn’t there. I was crying so bad but I heard rustling down on my cabinets under his enclosure. I looked around thinking he might have escaped but I found nothing. I looked behind his enclosure and found the spoon that I use for his food and I didn’t know how it got back there. The spoon had bite marks on it and I was confused. I searched all around the enclosure about to give up. As I walked away to my door I saw the little beast staring at me confused on the floor. I SCREAMED SO LOUD and started shaking, I could barely breathe. Long story short, I ended up purchasing a new cage 🤪😭
Once one of my past syrian hamsters wasn't seen for an unusual amount of time. Her house had a lid so we checked it and found her in a pile of baby hamsters, they looked like lil pink maggots and we counted 9 but only 7 survived. Surprise babies.
I have an hamster which I see only once a month. All your tricks are very recognizable, I do them every day. I hide treats on strange places (I do that with all my hamsters, I have six.), shake the sand bath a bit.Check the water it the tip is still wet. Id look in his burrow once, and he gave me very gentle, but stern bite, don't do that ever again. I clean the cage every month, which is very traumatic for him. I always say I'm sorry, but it has to be done. The first day after cleaning I give him extra treats, and check twice as hard to see if he feels better again.
The outro XD
also literally just freaked out that I've not seen my hamster properly for a few days. This happens every so often. I hear her drink and use her wheel when I'm in bed so I know she's OK, but damn I miss seeing her XD curse you little Pancake! Let me love and adore you!
My female dwarf is awake all the time. I see her during the day a lot, and I hear her on her wheel almost all night. So she is not a problem.
My male dwarf does not. He wakes up at about 2-4 in the middle of the night, and is already sleeping again by 7. Because he’s a bit skinny and old, I always put mealworms in his favorite areas, to see where he’s been. I’ll also fill the spot behind his wheel with some bedding, because I know he’ll push it away. :)
Yep
Great tips ! What I sometimes do if I’m very worried is I poke my finger down the burrow and feel if it is warm or not :)
:( I had the sad reality of that happening to me a few days ago. My beloved Dumpling didn’t peek his head out for his morning snack. So I left it. 24 hours later. My boyfriend noticed that Dumpling never got his eat his snack. We kinda ripped the cage open and sure enough. He passed away without any sort of warning of any health issues. I have another little guy named Tofu and I’ve been on watch. I’m so paranoid. But I can understand where everyone’s coming from. They’re small and delicate and you just wanna make sure your little furry guy’s okay. I’m glad this video came up so I don’t feel so bad opening up Tofu’s cage.
This video just came out when I noticed he hadn’t touched his food and I found him passed away in his sleep yesterday night...he was such a beautiful little Russian dwarf and I love him so much, keep having to remind myself I won’t see him again
Unless my hamster is old, ill or has had some concerning behaviour changes I tend not to worry if I haven't seen them. Instead I'll wait until the next day, and if I still don't see them I usually do the method with the food. If they are old, I'll or had some concerning behaviours I will tap on the side of their enclosures and listen out for rustling to show they've awoken - then if I hear/see anything I go into their nests
*if I don't hear/see anything
I think I unintentionally shifted my little Tremors' schedule. I'm a late waker, so I usually refill her bowl at noon. About 4 days into her new home she was awake for one of these events, and after a couple more times she's gotten into the habit of waking at 11-ish waiting for the food dude to come around. I've run with it, and do her taming sessions then too. She now only wakes up at 3 am in the night to compensate. Which is great, because by then I'd also be asleep and the room will be properly dark.
I went awww when you showed the tiny footprints in the sandbath. That is so cute!
I never like to disturb my babies. If I ever worry, I usually crack open a stong, healthy, fresh food with an aroma they will be interested in poking their heads out for then gently give a couple blows of air onto the food into the enclosure. If they want to wobble out for a nibble or two then they will do that and head back to rest. Saved both of us the frights. :^)
It's so funny watching them think about if they want to get up or not, like "👃... 👀"
My Robo is supposedly only a year old. However she seems to be slowing down on coming out, eating and drinking. She is in a detolf.
When I have went into the bedding she was alive and seemed fine but still isn’t coming out and hasn’t touched her food bowl. She also isn’t running on her wheel (I know that because she pees on her wheel and I clean it every 2 days. No urine is on the wheel in a week)
I live in a area where there are literally no vets who deal with hamsters, gerbils or reptiles. (Only Guinea pigs because they are really popular here)Literally. We have one about 120 miles(which is about 2 hour drive in a car ) away who has a exotic veterinarian that comes every 6-8 weeks and appts has to be made in advance.
Which isn’t a option for a emergency situation.
I don’t know what to do 😩
I wake up realy erly for work and i love to see our hams when they are really awake befor sunrise and they both come up for their morning cuddles
My hamsters really sick..all day he stays in his little house,I have to "Forcefully" give him food and water otherwise he'll be de-hydrated and hungry,he can hardly walk...The vet scheduled our appointment in 2 weeks as she's really busy...Does anyone know a bit about this?Im really worried he wont make it..😢
You could not have timed this any better! I have literally just walked away from my hamster after trying to find a way to see if he is ok without disturbing him as he’s out by now and normally out during the day but we had an emergency tank sos yesterday so he’s in a new home since last night and I was getting really worried. I resorted to using a dim flash light on my phone and eventually we found him then after five minutes he twitched so I was very relieved as we couldn’t see him breathing. Then I walk away to get a drink and then see this posted a minute before. Don’t worry I was able to use the light to cast a shadow from outside in a way he was shadowed from it as I didn’t want blind him. Thankyou for all your helpful videos x
I love how you explain how we handle it by “panicking & ripping into his nest & burrows”, yes! I’ve done this I felt So guilty!! Luckily he usually sticks close to the glass so I can spy on him. But he won’t come out for me & hides if he knows I’m spying on him in his wheel
This video popped in my head two days before my hamster died. I noticed she didn’t come out hee jornal time and got suspicious when I checked her Niteangel runner tracker (highly recommend this device as it tracks how much your hamster runs every night and is less than £20) and saw she hadn’t run on her wheel AT ALL so I left her fave treats out which she never not eats and the next day they were still there so I panicked and searched for her and she was in a very bad state. Covered in shit and barely moving. Took her to the vet and at first it was diagnosed as wet tail but turned out worse. After getting antibiotics the next day her foot had turned black and I went to the vet again and it turned out she had an aggressive lump near her back leg which hadn’t been there two days ago (I do a health check where I feel for lumps at least once a week) was cutting off the circulation to her foot and causing the diarria which vet had assumed was wet tail. She had to be put to sleep as the lump was growing fast and the new vet determined it was cancerous (she was nearly 2yrs old so not a big surprise)
Always recommend keeping an eye on your hamsters routine and using a pet cam if you have to leave them alone for 24hrs since their health can’t deteriorate very quickly
I always gently lift his little hut and he pops up. He really doesn't mind
Please teach about heat strokes for hamster / why is my pregnant hamster bleeding from her bottom
My 8 month old diabetic Russian dwarf hamster passed away last month & a warning sign was that I didn’t see him much for 2 straight days. I assumed it was because I wasn’t in his room when he was awake & I just kind of left it & after 48 hours when not much food or water had gone (since he’s diabetic he would drink A LOT) I worried & found him asleep in his nest but when I placed him in the middle of his cage & was stumbling despite no real signs of injury & only one of his eyes opened. That night he passed away & I’m suspecting an internal health problem that I never picked up on since they don’t show many symptoms & he’s my first ever hamster (I’m 21). Will definitely try these methods for a faster way to check next time
Yaaay I’m actually watching this the same day it was made
Has isolation left you a little bit nuts makeup was amazing and the little dance at the end of the video amazing
Pro tip: Having nothing but natural light in the room where the hamster lives, can greatly improve the times that hamsters are awake.
I have a lamp on a shelf in my bedroom, and that lamp would be on from when I got up, to when I went to bed. This resulted in my hamsters being awake at 00:00 or 01:00 at night...
The lamp bulb broke, and I'm lazy so I never replaced it, but the very first evening of not having had the artificial light on in my bedroom, my hammies were up and awake and full of cuddles and energy at 20:00!!! The MOMENT the sun went down, they were up!
It makes sense since they're crepuscular, and any and all artificial light will disturb that cycle. I'm so happ!
I own a 39 month old russian dwarf and before quarantaine I hardly saw him anymore. He used to come at the sound of the food bowl but his hearing has gone bad. I had to use tricks like putting certain food out or by using a little ‘rake’ to make lines in his sand bath and hope he stepped in there.
Lately though, I figured out he’s awake every day at 10am sharp. Now that I’m at home my standup is over at exactly 10am so after this I’ll have some time to say hello to my old boy :)
Possible to ‘remake’ all the animal care video. Miss them all. Still watching those ‘old ones’
I'm working on it very slowly, hoping to basically convert them all into my "101" video series but those take a lot more planning, scripting and editing that normal videos :)
I love to watch this because, while hamsters are less than legal where I live, I can apply it (within reason) to my rats ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
TheOneTrueMaddi I have rats (5 lil girls) too. But I still love watching Erins videos! ❤️❤️❤️
I really love how much more goofy you've been in your videos lately 😂 It's great! Let loose and have fun!
I hadn't seen my hamster all day a couple of weeks ago, and unfortunately my worst fear came true. My little hammy has passed. He had a good life though, I adopted him as a "he's been here for months because he's grown so big and everyone wants the small and cute ones" hamster, and he was so precious. Lazy, greedy but friendly and adorable. He lived for 2 1/2 years when I got him, I put him at about 3 years when he passed. But he had a routine, he got up about 7pm, ran around, then chewed on the cage, I let him out for an hour or so and then he went back to bed. When he didn't get up, or chew the bars I knew something wasn't right. He's gone but not forgotten. Special little guy.
When quarentine happened, she didn't pop up when I came into my room. Usually she's running out to see me when she hears me taking off my jacket. That time she didn't, so I baited her out with a treat. Nothing. 5 minutes later she came out and took the treat. Biggest sigh of relief.
I’m a little late but- I hadn’t seen my hamster in a while, Pumpkin only takes what he needs out of his food bowl so I couldn’t check with that method . I started to panic when I realised that His wheel hadn’t move and His sand bath wasn’t disturbed, So I ruffled the bedding and he pocked his head out ( This was two Am and I had been awake all night waiting for him) but then I just left him alone.... four hours later he woke me up at six running round the wheel. Your dancings Great btw 😂💖
It must be coincidence.... But 2 days ago I thought it was pretty quiet in my 5 month old syrian hamster cage. Usually she gets treats in the early morning and was not there. In the afternoon it started eating at me. Looked in her little bed and she sadly passed away from a heart attack at a very young age.... Worst nightmare came true..... rest in peace little roachy
I always lay down one sunflower seed on a verry recgnizable place. He usually touches is, so then I know that he's alive.
My hamster has been up all day has been sleeping since 8:30pm it's now 11:17pm so it's nice to have peace and quiet she is pretty old tho a little bit past 2 years surprisingly
Today is my 2nd day with my robo and I havent seen him all day today and I'm very thankful for this video ... I'm so stressed and worried 😫😫😫😫