Hey guys, it's me and today
I'm going to be doing the biggest hamster mistakes I made well being a hamster owner
I've seen this video done many times in fact Erin's animals actually did this video a really long time ago
And I commented on her video, and I said, this is a great idea. I'll definitely do this video
I said that three years ago, so you can see how much of a procrastinator
I am but I'm finally getting to it and I decided I wanted to
Finally make this video and get it out to you guys
Mistakes are okay to make
Everybody makes them and they're okay as long as you fix them or plan to fix them and solve the problem
So I started owning hamsters very young I started maybe about eight or nine years old owning hamsters
I didn't know anything about their care really
I just knew like the general things that weren't really correct
So like you need a cage obviously and bedding like I didn't know what types of cages and what types of bedding
I just thought the stuff in the pet store was fine
Honestly, and it wasn't until I got my third hamster, and I don't know how I came across it
But I was on Google I think
and I found the hamster hideout forum and that is when I found out all of the information
everything that I was doing was wrong and I was it kind of freaked me out and scared me so the first hamster mistake I
Ever made was of course keeping my hamsters in small cages my first hamster, buddy
I ever had he lived in a crittertrail cage, and then eventually I attached a habitrail suite cage to it
But of course that still is way too small
And then I think eventually after that cage he did go into a tank
but the only reason he went into a tank was because
He kept escaping out of the crittertrail Habitrail, which another mistake
I did make was once I accidentally left the lid open on the Habitrail and he did escape into
My mom's office which was very very messy at the time so getting him back
So hard cuz there was lots of things he could get under and things like that. It wasn't really bad
My second hamster Freddy. Also had a very small cage
I actually still have this cage to this day, and I use it for traveling because it's just so small
I've also used it in the past for really tiny baby hamsters
Just too, so then you can't like lose them in a giant cage
But that's all I use it for I've never would ever has a full-grown hamster in this cage ever
It's so tiny. The next mistake that I made with my hamsters Is that in the beginning I did use that cotton fluff
Nesting material I hate this stuff so much
But I did use this in the beginning until I did do my research, and then I realized. It's not safe, and I immediately
Removed it and got it out of there
I think there are pictures where you can see the cotton fluff in in the picture, but I just hate that stuff so much
The next mistake I made was my hamsters had, they weren't wire wheels
But they were the barred ones that were made out of plastic and they were so tiny
Freddy had a very small one. He had the one that came with the cage which was much too small for him
Buddy had one that was a little bit bigger and more for his size
But it still was a barred wheel which definitely is not good for them
It actually took me quite a while to actually finally upgrade my hamsters to proper size wheels
After the barred wheels I did have silent spinners the 6-inch
Those who are obviously a little bit better because they weren't barred
But they are way too small for syrians
And it took me a fairly long time to finally be able to find a eight inch wheel for my syrians
Now for my least favorite mistake. I hate this so much and I
Let my Syrians play together. Oh my gosh. I hate saying that so much
I hate it because now whenever I see syrians together it literally makes me so mad. It's just
Fortunately my syrians never fought or anything when I did let them play
Or not really play, but I let them sniff each other
I would have buddy in one hand and Freddy in the other and I would like hold them together and they would like kind of
Sniff each other and I would put them down they didn't do anything of course
Thankfully thankfully they didn't actually a story about that so since I used to like let my syrians kind of play with each other
Or I would let them meet and things like that
When I was going on vacation I brought one of my hamsters to my friend's house
So she could look after him and I remember she
Telling me about how she went to put like let our hamsters because she had a hamster, too
So she went to let our hamsters play with each other, and they actually started fighting
and she went to fire her hand in between them and
One actually bit her hand and it was just awful so obviously that's another situation
One of my one of those hamsters could have ended up dead which is awful
So that is probably the biggest mistake I ever made with hamsters, and I regret it totally
I wish I would have never ever done that so yeah guys that is it for this video. Those are all of my hamster mistakes
Thankfully I am NOT that person anymore
And I have corrected all of my mistakes and don't forget if you made mistakes don't feel bad as long as you've corrected them
It's okay to make mistakes
So yeah guys, thanks for watching bye