h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Entry: Keeping a Pet Hamster - A11539064
Author: fur_balls - U3556885

This is my first entry, so please be gentle with it.

Be gentle?!

Top notch! We have a hamster too, and this is a great read! See what others say, but I feel you'd do well with it in Peer Review as is.

Argh! Grr! Snarf snap chew!

>>what a rewarding animal they are to keep as a pet.<<
- what rewarding animals they are.
or
- what a rewarding animal one is

>>is take your time, say five or ten minutes, give them the back of your hand to sniff. <<
- is, take your time - say, five or ten minutes - and give them...

>>for teeth being barred and<<
- for teet hbeing bared

>>and starred at, poked and generally disturbed. <<
-stared at, poked...

A few mor such typos. Otherwise, an excellent first entry. Actually, an excellent entry.

What kind of hamster have you got? How old is it?

I will make those changes when I have more time, probably tomorrow.

No hamster at all, actually, though I got bitten by a rat and contemplated a gerbil, once. Read it out loud to yourself to catch a few mor such errors.

We have an 18 month year old Sybian. I think.

Oh, another thing you might want to chage is the joke about digging to Australia. There's quite a few Aussies that use the site that wouldn't be too fussed if there hamster dug itself home...

Syrian? Is it your first hamster? What's his/her name? Fur_balls represents 12 hamsters at the moment, including 4 fourteen week old babies and two tiny roborovski dwarves.
Theor names in order are:- Salem, Maximus Aurelious, Moselle, Eli, Jeb, Smoke Ying and Bo. The four babies are Eve Ella, Flyn and Alba.
Yes I have my hands full

Dammit! That was from US!

There's already an entry in the Guide on Hamsters A1097246 and some of the information in this one is in that one as well. But they are probably different enough to be allowed to continue on as separate entries.

You could put a link in this to the other one:

hamster

Thanks. Think I may have seen it? Will consider linking

You indeed have your hands full. Ours (named by the daughter) is called Sweetie. She's actaully more of an acrobat than a hamster, and likes to swing about on things.

That's just part of the norm. What colour is she?

Creamish...

I have two cream coloured hamsters, eli and jeb. Beautiful big black eyes, the pair of them. Although Jeb has a hint of ruby in his. They are blackn eared creams, and tiny for syrians. They are brothers, but you wouldn't necessarily think it. One is a walking carpet and the other has a short coat. I've recently started branching out into fancier types. I have roborovskis. They are SERIOUSLY tiny and go like stink.

You could link to my entry on Richard Hammond when he has been put in the Edited Guide.

and isn't h2g2 kept running by hamster?

A few of them, I think. They need more than one to keep the servers working.

>"and isn't h2g2 kept running by hamster?"

No Opti, Elton, (A710092) is a Ham(p)ster

Hi fur balls

Can you clarify whether you're talking about Syrian or Russian hamsters. As I understand it, Russian hamsters can be kept in pairs, but Syrian hamsters are solitary, and will viciously fight, sometimes to the death.

Emmily

Few more suggestions

Shouldn't the tank have a lid, so the hamster doesn't escape, and where would you put the water bottle? You couldn't use a small dish as it would get full of sawdust, which brings me to another point, shouldn't you use shavings, rather than sawdust, as sawdust can get in their eyes and ears.

They need wood, or special hamster chews (can't remember what they're called) to gnaw on, to stop their teeth over-growing.

The exercise balls, some of the old ones, that separate in half, and open after a few knocks against a wall, allowing the hamster to escape, are still around. The newer safety ones open at one end. As I re-call they come with a warning about the maximum time a hamster should spend in one.

I think most hamster enjoy a house with bedding, even if they do chew the plastic houses, and some tubes, toilet or kitchen roll inners will do, to play in and chew to bits.

That's all I can think of, for now.

Emmily