just about every year I do a reacting to my YouTube comments video and you guys absolutely
love these I'm always asked to do another one so here I am doing another one for you
starting off with a comment that almost made me tear up hi Victoria I just wanted to tell you
how much I love your videos and your best friend Emiology's videos you two always make me smile
I have autism and anxiety but your videos put my mind at peace thank you for making me smile
that is one of the reasons why I create videos
sometimes there are hard days making videos and I want to quit all together but then I get a
comment like that and then I know why I continue making content
oh this one this
this is a pet peeve of mine I will get we'll get into it in a second
I'm sorry but washing hamster items/hamster pee in your sink where you wash dishes and keep the plates and cups you eat and drink from
then to put dirty hamster items in the oven where you put food this is really unhygienic
I don't like people like this I'm sorry I don't I don't
items go in the sink to be washed
to remove bacteria items go in the oven to kill bacteria why do you think we cook meat
you can't eat raw meat you'll get sick why do you cook it to kill bacteria
why do we wash our forks and plates and then reuse them
if it didn't clean them we wouldn't wash them
do you go to a restaurant
where they wash all of their stuff were thousands and thousands of people have put those forks and knives in their mouths
do sit there and go oh my God that's disgust- no
no because it gets cleaned
I've also seen people get super upset if you take your cat's
plate or dog's dish and put it in the dishwasher with your plates
like
does nobody understand the purpose of a dishwasher and how it like actually cleans things
okay this one is a long one
okay so I know that you all love hamsters obviously what's not to
love however by telling people the reasons why they shouldn't get a hamster is the reasons why
these poor little things are kept in stores I would want to encourage people to get a hamster
that way if they aren't in a pet store somewhere I know and understand that we can't save them all
although most of us certainly want to but we can give one a good life because any life for hamster
have to be better than the way that they keep you for babies in pet stores in little cages and a
bunch of them together so although I see your point I would also encourage people to get one
no matter what your budget I think everyone deserves to have a cuddly friend that will
make them happy and that you can make the hamster happy so this is kind of a contradiction although
I see your points
just because
someone takes a hamster and buys it from the pet store does not mean it's gonna have a better life I can guarantee you that
there are lots of situations where I see pet owners with hamsters
that hamster would have had a better life if it stayed in the pet store if I'm being completely honest
I have seen hamsters who are put in bare bins with literal Pizza crusts for the food
and there's like five different syrian hamsters in there I'm sorry is that
what
how is that any better
and encouraging people to go out and get a pet that may not suit their lifestyle
can lead to the pet being neglected which once again no better than a pet store
and if you don't have a budget for a hamster and all of the things it needs
it's not gonna be thriving because if you can't afford the things it needs
love does not make up for necessary needed items
so no encouraging every single person in this world to get a hamster not a good idea
you like guinea pig
I mean I I like guinea pigs do I want to own them myself no
just discovered this channel I have so much joy from this for some reason
this means a lot to me because a lot of the times when I make
my videos and I'm editing them I have become so hard on myself
and I will sit and critique my stuff
for so long and I will be like you know why is anybody watching this you know this is so boring
like I talk too much I say this too much I like
I'm very very hard on myself um and so when I see comments of people being like hey like I
I Adore your videos they bring me joy they calm me down
it reminds me that like I'm looking at my videos from myself
who sees myself every single day I have to deal with myself I have to listen to myself 24/7. it's gonna be completely different for
somebody else
who doesn't interact with me daily
hi Victoria I just wanted to say I'm really grateful for your channel when I first got my hamster almond back in October
she was unfortunately in a 20 gallon tank and I did not know that it was wrong until I watched her Channel
as soon as I watched almost all of your videos I immediately went to go buy a bin cage for almond
and now she's happier than ever and my dad is building a cage for her
so she has even more room thank you so much Victoria
see here's the thing there's a lot of people who will jump on somebody
for upgrading to a bin cage because there aren't many bin cages that are gonna
meet 800 square inches of floor space or 700
so a lot of times they're around 500 to 600 square inches of floor space
but
what I believe is that
somebody going from a critter Trail to that size is always going to be better
and because they were willing to upgrade to a bin cage like that
and they're already actively involved in researching hamster care and things like that
they're eventually going to want to upgrade more
sometimes it just takes time
for somebody to do that and like this person said their dad is now building them a hamster cage
so
for all the people that get upset at somebody for slowly upgrading like that
I-
there's not there's really not
an issue
no shot that I can afford a cage that big
I can promise you you probably can and if you can't
probably shouldn't get a hamster
so this one was not in English so I did have to translate it
but they said
I know that hamsters should not eat meat because eating meat is not good for hamsters and healthy for hamsters
hamsters are omnivores
whether you like it or not
in the wild they're eating insects and they sometimes will even eat
other small animals
so
yeah they do eat meat
I was breading one time dwarf hamster with other species of hamster
I can promise you
you probably weren't um
and if you were it was
a winter white & Campbell's dwarf because those are the only two species that are possible of interbreeding with each other
you can't breed a roborovski with a Syrian
you can't breed a Chinese hamster with a Campbell's
you can't breed a Syrian hamster with a winter white
it doesn't work
they are different species of animals that's like breeding a dog and a cat together
it doesn't work
my hamster is mean can you help
unfortunately I don't think there is really
much I can do
your hamster may not necessarily be
mean but they may not like human interaction
they could have past trauma
they could also have a neurological issue
I know a lot of hybrid dwarf hamsters have a lot of aggression issues because
well they're hybrids and they weren't supposed to be made into hybrids but
there's not
really- I'm not a hamster Whisperer like that
can someone explain to me who on Earth can afford this much bedding these pet tubers are just feeding people unrealistic
people please just fill a small container full of bedding off to the side and just fill a moderate amount of shavings to the rest of the enclosure
one has to buy the entire Pet Shop to sustain one hamster if you follow these crazy pet tubers
I can assure you it's not like it's not just pet tubers
that give their hamsters
the proper amount of bedding people have been doing it
long before that because oh I don't know
hamsters need it
these sarcastic sort of emotionalist enthusiasm is just
love this
I'm so glad that you enjoy my humour and a little bit of my personality
unfortunately a lot of the times I don't get to show my personality in my videos
um and then sometimes when I do get to show my personality people are absolutely horrified because they're like
who is this we don't know her
which is kind of true you guys in all honesty
you don't know me as well as you think you do
you look like Audrey from The Lorax okay so I've watched Lorex but I don't remember what Audrey looks like so I'm gonna
look her up right now
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oh my gosh okay
oh my gosh I should be her for Halloween one day
I don't have any of these clothes but that would be fun
I used to use a hamster ball and now I don't know what to do with it so I'll use it to transport her
that is one of the things that you can use a hamster ball for
I also know people who have covered kind of the slits and then they've made it into like a little Hideout
type thing for their hamster
I've also seen people fill it with dirt and then put like flowers
in it that is another thing you can use the hamster ball for instead of
throwing it away into the landfill or you can just
store it up in your closet for the rest of your life
and to end the video off on a good note
hello Victoria I'm getting my first hamster ever today thanks to you I'm aware of proper care
and I've made sure to provide my hamster with a thousand plus square inches of floor space and lots of enrichment
it makes me so happy when somebody is wanting hamster and first they go and do research and
they actually learn about them so that they can start off with the best care possible right away
unlike many of us who unfortunately start out with improper care
and slowly had to learn and change and improve and
feel confused and guilty for using improper things when we had no clue
but either way as long as you are now working on giving your hamster proper care
kudos to you
so that is it for today's video I hope you guys have enjoyed and I will see you in my next one bye