Tino's thread

He's so contented in his lovely home, he doesn't want or need to leave it. No bar biting, monkey barring or any of the things that people usually struggle with. Both your hammies are examples of excellent care! Tino has been raised with everything and is a polite well brought up little boy. Come on Tino, be a bit naughty, your mom likes a challenge 😀
 
Yes I think that is Tino's nature - he wants to escape and roam but is shy of human interaction to achieve it. It went so well with the taming but if I don't see him, then there's no interaction. I'm mulling it all over.
 
Perhaps the scent of Raffy, an older male, is making him a bit wary. You can get cheapish IKEA air purifiers that might make any scent fainter.
 
It is something I have wondered about - and considered having his cage in a different room to see if it makes any difference. Although it didn't seem to bother him the night he escaped!
 
Socks is quite a bold hammy in a lot of ways, but if I didn't sleep right next to his cage, I would only see him for about ten minutes a day. I am scheduled in for ten minutes at 7pm if I am waiting, and then at 3am, and he likes me to watch him running on his wheel at about bed time (human bed time, that is!)
 
I’m blessed in that Blossom does regularly come out at tea time to forage, and then again between about 7-9pm to do her hamstery thing. She does wait tho until I turn the lights out and go to bed to have a run in her wheel…I often hear her having a run as I’m getting ready for bed!
 
Still haven’t seen Tino :-). Here’s a nightcam clip of him a few nights ago - enjoying his wheel and then sitting thinking - which he does quite a lot and still quite slow. I might find him when I spot clean …..

 
Is he a night hamster? When does he come out to play in his home?
 
Usually between 2am and 4am :-)
 
He seems to wait quite a long time after the last person has gone to bed. Once I came down in the night and he hid straight away. So he is avoiding us. Before he moved cages he would come out around 10.30 to get his food and make eye contact and was happy to walk into a tube. I suspect he was a bit freaked by the cage change so really I need to get him back in a routine of coming out regularly and knowing his cage will be the same when he goes back. Some are more sensitive than others. Also he missed out on some early life socialising with his siblings, with being so young when he came to me. I had just got him accepting being held before the cage move though.
 
Maz said:
He seems to wait quite a long time after the last person has gone to bed. Once I came down in the night and he hid straight away. So he is avoiding us. Before he moved cages he would come out around 10.30 to get his food and make eye contact and was happy to walk into a tube. I suspect he was a bit freaked by the cage change so really I need to get him back in a routine of coming out regularly and knowing his cage will be the same when he goes back. Some are more sensitive than others. Also he missed out on some early life socialising with his siblings, with being so young when he came to me. I had just got him accepting being held before the cage move though.
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He is still very young and his character hasn't come out yet
 
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Hey Maz, how is little Tino doing? Is he still being a bit of a ghost hamster?
 
Well he still doesn't come out except in the middle of the night :-) I need to clean part of his cage soon so no doubt he'll emerge then.
 
It'll be nice for you to see him, he is a handsome boy! Friendly but shy ❤️
 
I am also thinking it’s a shame we never see Tino as @Jain mentioned on another thread. I am thinking about slightly downgrading him to a standard plaza actually. But not right now as I still have torn rib muscles. It’s not much smaller than his current 120 cage but more manageable for me and giving him 8” instead of 10” of bedding. I can’t just reduce the bedding in his current lovely Aura cage as then it would be too tall.

It is a wonderful cage for a hamster like Raffy was - who was confident and keen to come out daily - or for a Robo. But for a shy slow Syrian I want to try him in the Plaza 100.

I did this once before with a very shy Syrian and it made a huge difference. And he used to come out more and come to the cage door and was less shy.

So although Tino is probably happy living under 10” of bedding and never coming out except the middle of the night, I think he is missing out as well - just sitting at the door looking out of the cage at night. Before I moved him to this cage he was still shy but would come to the door and want to come out. And he’d just got hand tame after weeks of socialising. Even then he wasn’t fully there.

His new playpen has been sat in its box for weeks!

I am slightly struggling with the depth of his aura cage and it isn’t really fair to just dig him out now and then and mess everything up.

He doesn’t really do a lot in the cage even at night. He is very slow. Sits a lot thinking and the occasional run in his wheel.

So I think he needs that confidence of getting used to humans and on a practical level he needs health checks now and then. And due to my ongoing joint and muscle things I find the standard plaza more manageable.

Anyway could be a while before I can start sorting cages out again.
 
Yes, time for Tino to step up, he is the ham of the house now! He probably would like to come out more, he'd just needs a bit of training and TLC. I don't think there's anyone better to do it than you, Maz. Darn nuisance injury, I hope it gets better quick. They say six weeks is the golden period for healing, but it always seems such a long time. He's just very polite and well brought up. Not used to the tough lives of shop bought hamsters who monkey bar and bar bite, and sometimes finger bite, their way through their youth, and have little nicks on their ears from having spent too long with their siblings in the rodent mill.
 
Tino is a show hamster, perfectly behaved and well mannered. He is a beauty 😍 and nice and strong and healthy!
 
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