How Long Can Your Hamster Go Without Eating? Six Tips for Keeping Them Alive

 sitter wouldnt need to do much just switch out water every day or two and make sure your hamster has food daily. Its much safer to do this than to assume your hamster will be fine without you. If anything were to happen to injure your hamster or create a potentially deadly situation it would be best to have someone making sure your little buddy is doing just fine. If anything were to happen to you that would delay your arrival home your hamster would be in good hands and it would be one huge stress reliever. So if anything did happen to harm your hamster the sitter

would be able to tell you about it and take it to a vet. Better to be safe than sorry!
Additional Ways to Keep Your Hamster Happy Healthy and Alive
Make sure to get an appropriately sized wheel for your hamster. A wheel that is too big is fine but one that is too small will hurt their backs. These are creatures that run for miles every night in the wild. Syrian hamsters need 10 12 inch diameter wheels Make sure your hamster always has plenty of healthy chewing choices. Their teeth grow constantly and if they stay too long they will inhibit the hamster from eating and could break Get the largest hamster enclosure available. They really enjoy lots of space to run play and make food stashes. The colorful hamster cages sold at chain pet stores are not good for Syrian hamsters. They cannot safely fit through the tunnels and could become stuck. The cages are also extremely small. Instead look online or check out some DIY hamster cages Never use cedar chips as a cage liner. They might smell nice to us but are extremely harmful to small animals and many develop breathing difficulties that quickly turn into pneumonia and kill them. Look for shredded paper bedding without additives. It costs a bit more but goes a very long way! Plus it absorbs urine and other smells. Hamsters love to dig in it!Get your hamster a water dish made out of metal or stone so they cannot chew it up. Small animals like hamsters and hedgehogs have poor eyesight and tend to bump into water bottle nozzles. They can easily break their teeth and may stop eating. Plus its easy to remember to change your hamsters water when its in a highly accessible and easily cleaned dish. Lots of bacteria can develop in plastic or glass water bottles Hamsters are not social animals by nature. Never force one to come out of their comfort zone. They can become terrified easily and will jump and possibly sustain fatal injuries in the fall. If you want a social pet who will gladly come out of their comfort zone for quality time adopt a rat.