My hamster bite his cage

super_canard

I know they have to use their teeth etc...

I spent a fortune on wood stuff (tried all kinda of chewy woods... various flavours..etc..), but that asshole keeps on bitting his metal cage up to 2-3 am! (keeping me awake).

Any suggestions people?

azezil

had a hamster once, drove me nutz constantly chewing on his cage and it was made of wood so he made bits of it

eventually i started throwing food at him everytime he'd do it, just keep him quiet!

super_canard

Lol.. thanx... Well Mine is fat enough already... won't encourage him... LOL...

Thank you anyway :-)

koneko

Yeah, they'll do that.

How big is the cage? What kind of stuff is in the cage (for him to play/mess with). Any wheels or toy things?

super_canard

yeah,

he's got salt lick, a giant parot wood chewy stuff, he tunnel (about 1 meters long all together), A wheel that he never uses, and some kinda of smal bridge thingy...
Sometimes I put him inside a ball so he can run and exercise a bit...
would you think a toy would make him happier? (which one??? he doesn't seem to enjoy the wheel thing.. and he's playing I can climb the ceiling of the cage a lot recently...)...

PAPILLION

yeah, I used to have russian hamsters the little backstards always chewed the bars, they would hang from the top of the cage by their teeth. scarey

even when u let them out the chew on the bars from the outside. they must have magnets in their teeth.

The only serious suggestion is thatyou buy one of the ventillated plastic cages, but then the poor critter wont be able to climb.

I now have a pet greyhound. She doesn't chew so much.

Rella

I believe a picture of Richard Gere put next to the cage keeps them quiet!:D

PAPILLION

does that work for male and female hamsters alike?

super_canard

humm never tried the picture solution...

who knows.. it might actually work

PAPILLION

so just how many pictures of richard gear do you have s.c?

super_canard

none so far.... but if it works... maybe a couple of them.. surrounding the cage :-)

Otheriwse to go back on topic, anybody tried pest repulsive stuff? (u know that kind of stuff which makes it stink for them...? or is that just cruel?)

PAPILLION

a little bit cruel i would imagine.

they enjoy climbing plus it gives them much needed exercise. if you put a towel over the top at night it should reduce the noise a bit though. if that fails. move yourself or the hamster to a different location at night.

good luck anyhow

super_canard

I can't... :-(

there is the tube going all over the place :-)
And the house is a 2 room appartement... So not much i can do on the moving part of things either really.. :-(

PAPILLION

earplugs then. or voulintary deafness

amp

I was sharing a gaff and one of the people living there had 4 hamsters. I used to let my favourite one out for walks around the living room and it decided to eat the off button on the telly remote control. I guess it picked that button because it was red.

I also learned that hamsters don't like microwaves very much.

super_canard

Originally posted by amp
they don't like microwave

Pleassee.. tell me it's not what I think... ?

FAYESY

Chewing the cage is a part of owning critters! does not matter what you give them hammis, gerbil, chins etc are bar biters! the only solution is to house them in glass tanks!

Putting a towel over the cage will not help! they wake up in the dark!! & will chew up tthe towel to make a nice soft fluffy bed!!

Faye:D

amp

Originally posted by super_canard
Pleassee.. tell me it's not what I think... ?

You've never tried Hamster? Try it. It's fucking delicious..

Hamster Recipes

super_canard

Excellent... he's going to enjoy these... thanx for the recipe. :-)

Victor

Is he being territorial? Try moving the cage?

commuterised

we had a hamster years ago and he used to get out at night and chew on the bottom of the sitting room door and then get back into his cage. No idea how he was opening and closing the cage door though. Still freaks me out to this day.

super_canard

Tried to move his cage...

I think he's just doing it to annoy me at night time in fact :-D

Our man in Havana

Originally posted by amp
You've never tried Hamster? Try it. It's fucking delicious..

Hamster Recipes

This post is not approiate to this forum which is used by minors. This post should be deleted.

koneko

Bond-James Bond,

Read the site that links to. It's a page with recipes FOR hamsters

Amp was just being silly.

watty

All rodents and also Rabbits /Hares (might not be rodents) and Cavies (definately not rodents) have constantly growing teeth. Perhpas if they have too much soft food they feel the need to chew on cage.

Our piggies chew any wooden corner.

The male chewed his wire run till he hurt his mouth (The girls are in a different run...). We have to block the view in that direction and then he is OK.

He will chew carrot in preference to wire and utimately prefers food to girls..

They do eat guinea pigs in S.America where they originate (Peru), and also in Italy. Here people prefer full size genuine piggies with the eggs.

So Far Eastern Dog rumours may be true too.

Hellrazer

Originally posted by Bond-James Bond
This post is not approiate to this forum which is used by minors. This post should be deleted.

To be honest James I Have to agree with Koneko.Amp was joking!!!!!!
Richie.

Falkorre

hmmm........
years back, one of mine chewed the bars so much he got a cut around his nose, vet cave me this stuff, its a liqiud spray used to train puppies not to chew things, tastes VILE (yes i did )......... dont remember the name but im sure any pet store will stock it, u just spray a bit on ur finger, then rub ur finger on the bars, he will never chew them again

Until then, mine loved destroying cardboard toilet roll, kitchen towel tubes,..... that used to exhaust him no end, also try keeping him awake as much as possible during the day, he will hate u at first, but once he adjusts he will sleep at night (good way to do it is make the cage dark during the day and put a small lamp (v low watt) beside it at night

good luck

B

super_canard

Originally posted by Dawntreader
hmmm........
years back, one of mine chewed the bars so much he got a cut around his nose, vet cave me this stuff, its a liqiud spray used to train puppies not to chew things, tastes VILE (yes i did )......... dont remember the name but im sure any pet store will stock it, u just spray a bit on ur finger, then rub ur finger on the bars, he will never chew them again

Until then, mine loved destroying cardboard toilet roll, kitchen towel tubes,..... that used to exhaust him no end, also try keeping him awake as much as possible during the day, he will hate u at first, but once he adjusts he will sleep at night (good way to do it is make the cage dark during the day and put a small lamp (v low watt) beside it at night

good luck

B

Thanx for all of that

But for the finger thing... did you think about where my finger might go after? (kidds don't read that post Or think about bees)... (big bad joke - me was out... biiig time... i will not recover).

koneko

Some animals hate lemon (like ferrets, if I remember correctly). If hamsters do, just rubbing a bit of lemon on the bars should help (like dawntreader's suggestion).

But as others have said, it's perfectly normal, they all do it

super_canard, bad joke indeed. Less of those please :P

Victor

Originally posted by Dawntreader
good way to do it is make the cage dark during the day and put a small lamp (v low watt) beside it at night

Surely the other way around, with this suggestion he won't know when night or day is.

super_canard

Vengeanceeeee... 3 hours I put him in hos ball...(running ball)... at the equivalent of 3 am for him.... LOL...

Know he knows how i feel :-D

amp

Originally posted by koneko
Bond-James Bond,

Read the site that links to. It's a page with recipes FOR hamsters

Amp was just being silly.

Heh, I probably shouldn't have used such language though and I apologise profusely. It's all DeVore's fault. I've got that phrase stuck in my head from that Penny Arcade cartoon in his Photopost.

Also I'd like to point out that with a nick that kills people probably illegally*, destroys public property and goes quite often has unprotected sex with many many different women, your hardly setting a good example to our younger readers, Mr Bond.

Pot: You expect me to talk, you black hearted evil fiend?
Kettle: No Mr Pot, I expect you to DIE!

*Sure he's got a license to kill, but nobody ever checks it, and I hardly think it's valid in all the locations he snuffs people at

Falkorre

Originally posted by Victor
Surely the other way around, with this suggestion he won't know when night or day is.

nope, right way round

see, hamsters are nocturnal and sleep 90% of the day, so if you make them think day is night, eventually they will stay awake all day an because ur putting a light on them at night, they will think night is day and sleep at night!! (Try saying *that* ten times fast! LOL) ....but the idea is to make him think day is night and night is day, to re-train his inner-clock so to speak (it does work, rather quickly, but takes a little patience)

oh an super_canard?..... lolol re ur answer, but it did remind me, lol..... a particularly bad hamster i had once did it despite the spray, so i got creative and tried olbus (sp?) oil thinking the smell would keep him away......it worked too.......However if you do this, wash ur hands at least 10 times before u pee :eek:


B

super_canard

Originally posted by Dawntreader


oh an super_canard?..... lolol re ur answer, but it did remind me, lol..... a particularly bad hamster i had once did it despite the spray, so i got creative and tried olbus (sp?) oil thinking the smell would keep him away......it worked too.......However if you do this, wash ur hands at least 10 times before u pee :eek:


B

It's not for my "little friend down there" that I'm worry about with nasty hands :-)))

PAPILLION

it burns eh?

bet not as much as tiger balm.

Snowball

Originally posted by koneko
Amp was just being silly.

thats Amp being Amp

liam4mail

I do love the binary quote!

Ronika

Hey dont know if your still havin the problem with ur hamster biting d bars. I got a plastic cage with just bars at the top but she still able to climb up to them an eat them for most of the nite so what I do is get a cardboard off kitchen rollholder and put it in her cage and she is very happy to sit their knawing at that for most of the night also if you let him out in his ball for about 2-3hrs it usually tires them out (well most of the time)

pclancy

i had a hamster years ago and he used to bite like mad at night so I usually just fecked the cage into another room. I always thought it was cos he was just really bored. He had a wheel which he did use and a ball but i thught the ball was lousy because he used to poo a lot in it and then you'd hear them rattling around inside it!!!

Do you reckon they are really happy tho in the cage? I wonder do they hate it. I'd love to get a hamster again though. hmmm.....