HI!!

[~OREOHAZELMARTIN~]

I just got a hamster and his name is Martin!!! He's a long-haired Syrian male and he's only 30 days old, he's super cute!!!!! I got him this morning!! This is a really bad photo of him, but it's the only one I have so far because the second I got him home he went to sleep.

 

[Maz]

Hi and welcome. Sorry you didn't get a response earlier! Blame the weather ........ Are you sure he's only 30 days old? That is very young! Baby hamsters can be easily scared at first so best to take it slowly with him and also don't do any major clean outs or change anything in his enclosure for the first two weeks - unless there's a safety issue. Spot cleaning out the pee after a week is ok but don't worry too much about it that first couple of weeks if you can't find any.

 

[Vanessa1]

Hi welcome to the forum, what a beautiful little hamster, Martin is very young! So nice and quiet steady care is needed! Just lots of patience for a while make sure he has fresh water and food every day! Just let him settle in looking forward to seeing more pictures of Martin Ness

 

[~OREOHAZELMARTIN~]

I love him so much and he's actually super tame the person we got him from had five kids, and they played with him so much.

 

[~OREOHAZELMARTIN~]

He sat in my hand and groomed himself a ton, which I'm pretty sure means that he was very comfortable

 

[Vanessa1]

Gosh he's so lovely your so lucky that he's so tame... Wonderful Ness

 

[Maz]

He's beautiful It's wonderful when they are so hand tame.

 

[~OREOHAZELMARTIN~]

Update on Martin. He's not quite as tame as I thought, he runs when I tried to pick him up, but when I'm actually holding him, he's chill. I can't believe he got this big in just a few few days!! My wittle floofy boi

 

[Maz]

He's gorgeous They are very good at tricking us

 

[Vanessa1]

He's beautiful lovely photos Ness

 

[~OREOHAZELMARTIN~]

Heres his cage

 

[Maz]

It looks great, and you've been really creative there. If you made some of the house out of cardboard, maybe you could do a post showing how you made them?! We have a section called cardboard creations

Cardboard creations

This is a thread to show how many things you can make for your hamster or enclosure, out of cardboard :-) Cardboard is your friend.

www.thehamsterforum.com

 

[Tulsi]

What a lovely boy. How great that he is already hand tame. I taught many of my hamsters to get into a mug or similar which I would then cover with my hand to prevent leaping out. They soon come to associate the mug with time out of the cage. One of my past hamsters, Arun (long haired black eyed cream) would literally leap into his carrying cup as soon as I opened the cage door. I soon learned to have it ready, close to the doorway!

 

[~OREOHAZELMARTIN~]

What a lovely boy. How great that he is already hand tame. I taught many of my hamsters to get into a mug or similar which I would then cover with my hand to prevent leaping out. They soon come to associate the mug with time out of the cage. One of my past hamsters, Arun (long haired black eyed cream) would literally leap into his carrying cup as soon as I opened the cage door. I soon learned to have it ready, close to the doorway!

Thats adorable! The minute I opened the front door of the cage Martin realized it was an exit and now, whenever I go near the cage he scampers to the front door :3