One of our Dwarf Hamsters has just given birth to a litter of young Can anybody give me any Dos and

FIRSTLY REMEMBER NOT TO TOUCH THE BABIES!! :-Your action might harm the babies and change its scent thus confuses the mother. She will think that they are not hers, abandon them and worst she might even eat the babies (it did happened to my hamsters)

Protecting a precious baby hamster requires a keen eye, a good dose of patience, and the proper equipment. Whether you own an aquarium or a complex tank with lots of tubes for running and playing, you want to situate your hamster for easy growth and development. If you keep your hamsters in an aquarium, you may want to provide extra ventilation for your baby. Of course, you don鈥檛 want to allow escapes鈥搚oung hamsters can easily fall off tables or high surfaces and injure themselves. Since their bones and ligaments are less developed than the bones and ligaments of their parents, they can be injured more easily.

You can provide your baby with a cardboard box for nesting, but it鈥檚 important to offer other toys to encourage teething, scratching and burrowing. A simple wooden block or a willow branch can be manna from heaven for a baby hamster. You can also add some tissue to the cage for use as raw material in the nesting box.

Every few weeks or so, you might want to replace the nest furnishings to prevent them from getting stale or harboring bacteria or disease. Socializing you baby hamster is a multi-step process. Assuming that you鈥檝e tamed the parents, you can likely build up enough goodwill through soothing voice gestures, calm handling, and lots of encouragement.