Further Hamster Issues

[Hopey79]

I posted a while ago, abotu mu hamster eating the bars on her cage, it has now got really worse, and she is making so much noise chewing them, that it is keeping us all awake up night, ans she quite regularly gets relegated to the utility room! I am just concerned that there might be something wrong with her, - her mouth? Has anyone get any ideas on what might be wrong, ot any way of stopping it! Any Adivce gratefully recived. TIAx

[hippyhoppy]

Nothing wrong with her - she's just being a hamster! Ours was like houdini, always escaping - tenatious little sods!!!

[B00]

Lol, as Hippy has already said, nothing wrong with her and nothing you can do about it either.

Hamsters are nocturnal so are at their noisiest during the night. She's just doing what hamsters do i'm afraid.

Betcha didn't think something so small could be so noisy did ya? ;-)

[josaphine32]

We have had several hamsters that bight on there bars, If you can afford it buy a Habitrail cage, they are really good,

www.habitrail.com

[wildwood]

Maybe it is trying to sharpen (and wear down) its teeth. Rodents need to frequently sharpen the incisors so that there is less enamel at the back of the teeth. This makes the teeth grow in the familiar acr. Without this the teeth will grow all sorts of funny shapes and need to be continually clipped. They have even been known to grow up out of the mouth and pressurise the top of the head (no kidding) and on the rare occasion killed the animal.

Captive hamsters have a pretty easy live and don't need to use their teeth much to gather their food. Perhaps your one has found that the bars make an ideal sharpening tool. Then again, it could be that it want to make his bedroom bigger but that's another story.

One solution is to somehow fix glass to the inside where the wires are, only to the hight needed. Do not use perspex as they will eat this when they get a start, and will impact in their stomach.

[lardhelmet]

Do you ever let the hamster out - in a ball -she's probably bored

[Hopey79]

Thanks for all your help, i just worry that something is wrong, other than that she is a great little hamster. Lardhelmet - she come out in her ball, or on our laps every day! - she and my kitten have a great relationship!!! Thanks again