My teddy hamster is awake during the day and sleeps at night. Is that bad?
Hi, I have a teddy hamster. She's 8 months old. Up until now, she's always slept until 11 p.m. and was awake until roughly 10 or 11 a.m. We let her out for 2-5 hours whenever she wakes up, and we occasionally put her in her cage to see if she wants to come home. For the past week, however, she's been waking up at 1 p.m., staying awake until 10 p.m., and then sleeping the whole night. I don't know what's wrong. Is this serious? Should I see a doctor?
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Hallöchen :
Many hamsters change their sleep rythm several times in life. Some are also short awake during the day to eat, peeing and then go to sleep again. Others do it differently. As long as the animals are not kept up by unnecessary noise and take out or other disturbances during the day, this is completely normal and harmless.
My female, for example, comes out at around 5 pm and turns a few rounds before she goes to sleep again and comes back until midnight and then is active until partially 10 am.
My male, Houdini, on the other hand, is absolutely interactive and sometimes a day, sometimes at night. Most of the time, however, he sleeps at least reliably from 4pm to 9pm.
Don’t worry about it as long as it’s not under stress.
Greetings:)
That’s normal. Hamsters are night-active.
LG
I said she was awake during the day and sleeps at night for a week
Oh, maybe it’s too long at night. Otherwise I would go to the vet
Why do you always want to be a vet with a hamster? This is absolutely unnecessary and pure stress for the animal. With a hamster you go to the vet if you have an emergency but not for that. Especially since the fewest veterinarians specialize in Hamster and therefore act only wrong.
How do you keep your hamster?
3 sticky crocheted 114x55x66 bottom glass top grating is more than 30cm high it has a large runner sandbath wood toys to snap and a tunnel made of heu
Please leave her alone and don’t always take her out just because she’s awake. Hamsters are observatory animals, logically that if you take them out when she’s awake that she changes her rhythm. The enclosure has a nice size for a cage, however, talk for gold-hamsterdams should be as big as possible as they are very active. Grids are also unsuitable for hamsters. Look for large aquariums:)
Then they are the details I have wrong because your hand is great shame you can’t frame a picture here
Sorry, but: 66 cm high, 30 cm litter. Stay 36 cm. Then a wheel: at least 30 cm for a Goldhamster. How do you get three floors in there?
That’s not huge, I’m sorry. And floors bring nothing to the hamster… grids (top grids) are dangerous.
I think your hamster will be noticeable and will show that. That scratches and “shoulding” show that well…
Excuse 114×55 is not huge
Bottom glass top grids 114x55x66 3 floorings and she does not always climb parasites is her cage not scratching her just if she really wants out sometimes she is quiet in the cage in the wheel playing with her knabber toys buddelt around
How big is the “great cage” and what is it?
I answered your question: If stress could be caused by parasites, it can be stress or something else.
But yes, if she scratches on the cage and so, that’s a behavioral susceptibility.
If the drop height is above 10cm, it is dangerous. She can suddenly frighten herself and jump down and hurt herself. Please change that. She doesn’t have to climb, a hamster doesn’t need it.
When she climbs on the 2nd floor until now she has never dropped her she climbs even down to the place where it goes quite down she doesn’t even come down
This cage is huge at first I had unconscious one of the was 100×55 which has completely destroyed it but meanwhile when you see his animal every day and watch you get to know his behavioral pattern every hamster is also different zb my likes so many things don’t like the other hamster and then ch understand not why you have to talk all badly it was not about taking them out but that their sleep behavior has changed
That your hamster scratches or chaps the cage means she needs more space and not that she wants to get out. Unfortunately, the least veterinarians have the idea of hamsters or even their attitude. Veterinaries learn diseases and anatomy of the animal, not its articulate attitude.
Did you see if there were small mini-viechers in the enclosure? Maybe she’s stressed by parasites…
When climbing, hamsters simply cannot fall over 10cm, otherwise it becomes dangerous. But of course, a hamster may climb over a cork tube or something like that, simply not as mice climb on ladders or have hanged things.
We have not taken them out even if they are looking for food during the day, but only at night now I have waited again during the day she was awake from 13-22 clock all the time and she has scratched all the time I then pulled them out against 19 clock because she also started scratching on the glass and that with the climbing has not kept me the annoyant I have told my hamster during the day.
Climbing? Hamster (except Chinese) should not climb, they can’t really. You can’t assess heights.
She’s scratching the grid because she’s boring, so she wants to get out. But the day she really shouldn’t get out of the cradle, otherwise her rhythm is disturbed.
Veterinary said that my crooked ideal is hamster must climb on something and then I get her out when she scratches on the grid that makes her just if she wants out I don’t take her out with the hand forced out but we have a shovel I hold her in when she’s lust she goes on because she knows it’s going out if we don’t let her in