Category: Hamster

Sendai Virus; How Can Be Infected to Hamsters?

Hamster might not be a popular pet as dogs, not much cuter as a house pets like cats and you of course can’t train them to do trick. However, hamster is still one of the cheaper choice of pets, and easier pet to take care of compared to such a bigger pets like cats, dogs […]

The Types of Ear Infection on Gerbill

If you are an animal lovers, especially loves small animal such as hamster, ground squirrel, sugar glider or rabbits, then you might already heard about gerbil. Gerbil is a small animal, mammal animals that belong to the sub family of Gerbillinae from the order of Rodentia just like mice and hamster. Some people also called […]

3 Kinds of Dental Issues on Chinchillas

Chinchillas are super cute and adorable. We love them to be our little friend at home. Besides their cute faces, another noticeable features on chinchillas is their teeth, right? Well, it is obvious because their open-rooted teeth, which are common in rodents like degus or guinea pigs, keep on growing 2 to 3 inches per […]

Choking on Chinchillas; Is It Normal?

Chinchillas are adorable and cute. Chinchillas are also relatively easy to take care of. However, just like any other type of pet, Chinchillas are prone to several health problems, including respiratory issues. They are somehow, prone to choking. Choking in chinchillas is not normal. It can be a serious situation because without proper treatment, it […]

Tapeworms on Gerbill; How It Comes?

Have you ever heard about Tapeworms? Tapeworm is one of the endoparasitic flatworms that can infect live beings, including animals like gerbils. Gerbils usually contract tapeworm parasites from ingesting contaminated food or water. However, not all types of tapeworms can infect gerbils but only two types of them which are the rat tapeworm and the […]

6 Ways to Prevent Hamsters From Contracting Salmonellosis

Do you have a pet hamster at your home? As a hamster owner, we all want to keep our little furry friend healthy all the time, right? We will try to provide them with fresh food, pellets, even some additional supplement just to keep them away from getting sick. Besides many types of illnesses in […]

Kinds of Vegetables that can be Eaten by Hamsters

Hamster’ health should be our first priority as their owners. We have to keep everything as it’s should be to make sure our hamsters would always fit and in a good condition, these are included maintain the cleanliness of hamster’ cage and all equipment inside hamster’ cage such as toys, bedding, food and water containers. […]

What Types of Fruits that can be Eaten by Hamster

As hamster’ owners we bear responsibility to keep out hamster’ in their prime state of health. Although, yes, we couldn’t prevent some of deadly diseases such as cancer and tumor – but, we certainly can’t prevent some infection on hamsters to go in advanced stage. Infection occurred mostly repercussions of untreated open wounds; this happened […]

Causes of Alopecia in Hamsters

Hamster’s cuteness apparently couldn’t stop some problems come upon them, especially some health issues. Unfortunately, wide range of diseases are shadowing this little adorable creatures, from infection on hamsters such as pink eye and lumpy jaw which caused by serious infection on some of hamster’s body parts. Most of the infection occurred in hamsters could […]

Detecting Cancer and Tumor in Hamster Early

Try as best as we could to maintain our pet hamsters condition is our prime duty as the owners. There are many diseases occurred associated with hamsters, from common infection on hamsters such as skin abscesses, lumpy jaw in hamster, pink eyes, and others. Infection occurred mostly caused by open wounds on hamster’ particular areas. […]