so with summer comes the extreme heat that we need to a bear through
especially if you don't own an air conditioner or maybe your air
conditioner broke and you just can't fix it right now when there's extreme
temperatures it's really important that we find a way to keep our hamsters cool.
now the ideal temperature that you want your hamsters enclosure to stay at is
generally 65 degrees to 75 degrees many other countries in the summer get very
very hot we go through heat waves and when your house starts to get to
temperatures of 86 degrees it's really important we find those ways to keep our
hamsters cool otherwise they can get heatstroke definitely not good if you
realize your hamster has heatstroke and they are floppy and lifeless you're
gonna want to make sure to try and cool them down as fast as possible and if
they don't start to wake up you definitely need to go see your exotic
vet. To start off if you live in a very hot climate where it is like hot all
year round and you want to own hamsters long-term but you don't have an air
conditioning unit then I probably would suggest saving up to get a portable air
conditioner or multiple fans so that you can put that in the room that the
hamster is going to be living in because it's not good for them to be constantly
in extreme heat. For your cage I would highly recommend using Aspen shavings
rather than paper based bedding because I find that the Aspen doesn't hold in
heat as well as a paper-based bedding does another thing is to not get rid of
your bedding depth when you have a deep substrate it's going to be cooler down
in the burrows rather than just giving your hamster like no......no bedding because
if you look in the wild hamsters make burrows and the burrows are where
they're going to stay cool when outside is really really hot so it makes sense
to give your hamster more bedding. another important thing is that you keep
your hamster out of direct sunlight when you have your hamsters cage in direct
sunlight it's going to heat up a lot faster if you do have your hamsters cage
in direct sunlight you are going to want to close your blinds in that
room so that it blocks out some of the heat. another thing is if you have a portable
cage and you're able to move it you want to move your hamsters cage to the lowest
floor in your house so if you live in a three-story house and your hamster lives
on the third level I would bring them down to the first level because heat
rises so that third level is going to be the hottest area in your house.
some other ways to keep your hamsters cool is to buy those hard refreeze-able
ice packs and you can freeze these and then lean them up against your hamsters
hideout so that it keeps it cool make sure you buy a couple of these so that
you can cycle them out every time one melts and if you can't find them and you
just don't- OR you don't want to buy them you can simply make one by taking a
empty water bottle fill it with water put it in your freezer wait for it to
freeze and then put a towel around it and then put it in your hamsters cage
just make sure your hamsters not a big chewer. Things like stainless steel dishes,
ceramic items, terracotta pots and a tile that you buy from the hardware store are
really great because you can put these in the freezer and then put them in the
cage and they stay relatively cool so if your hamster gets too hot they can go
and they can lay down on that cool object and cool themselves off as well
as you can put their sand bath in the freezer so that way when you put it in
their cage they do a little ~dig~ or flip they're going to be cooled down by that
sand. You're also going to want to make sure that their water isn't getting too
warm when water starts to get at a warmer temperature bacteria can grow a
lot more easily so for one you're going to want to be cleaning out their water
dish and water bottle a lot more often when you're going through a heatwave and
also to keep the water cool you can also put in some little ice cubes so that it
doesn't get warm as fast. You're also going to want to make sure your hamster
stays hydrated because you don't want them to get dehydrated during a heatwave
so some foods that you can feed that are a little bit higher in water content
would be cucumber, celery and Zucchini and these can keep your hamsters
more hydrated so I hope this video could help whether your situation be that you
just don't own an air conditioning unit or maybe your air conditioning unit
broke either way I really hope this video can help and I hope all the
hamsters out there stay cool this summer so yeah guys thank you for watching bye