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nice hampster home for her with a plastic tube wheel that dosen't make any noise. I myself can not stand the sqeak sqeak sqeak noise when trying to sleep. However, Oreo has decided to take some of her food up there inside the plastic circle and then start spinning making the rattle rattle rattle noise. Anyways, I now conclude that domestic hampters have been breed to make noise at night one way or the other to keep the house hold up.

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maybe a small spit roast could be planed for a selected few

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here kitty kitty

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simply place a towel over the the critter keeper, lightly ( so not to prevent airflow) to signal night time because they are nocturnal creatures----they will sleep then

Because hamsters are nocturnal, covering their cage will encourage them to wake up. They sleep during the day hours. They sleep best in warm conditions - so if you want to encourage them to sleep at night, use a day-light bulb which you can get from a craft centre and keep their cage warm. During the day, cover the cage and keep it cool - then they will come out.

If the hampsters chosen the wheel, there is little you can do to train now, because hes trained himself. We have two gerbils (kirby and daisy) who live in a converted aquarium, which you could also try for the hamster as this is really good to help stop Steve Mcqueen type habits...

Peace and Love

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so if you want to encourage them to sleep at night, use a day-light bulb which you can get from a craft centre and keep their cage warm. During the day, cover the cage and keep it cool - then they will come out.

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... However, Oreo has decided to take some of her food up there inside the plastic circle and then start spinning making the rattle rattle rattle noise ... I can't belive I've been out witted by a hampster.

Oh dear, sorry to hear that your hamster is outfoxing you ... hmmm, perhaps that should be "outhamstering you" ?! Perhaps it's "dumpster time" for "Mr. Hampster" !! Alternatively, hamsters do respond quite well to torture ... the only problem is finding a little rack or St. Andrew's cross small enough to fit inside their little cages. Super Pet and Living World just don't seem to be very focused on their potential market opportunities in this area, unfortunately. OTOH, if you don't feel up to torturing more appropriate wheel behavior into your new little furball yourself, you might want to consider having him flown to a third world country where they will do it for you very cheaply and with no questions asked. After all, rodention is all the rage in "torture circles" nowadays. Just don't send a Siberian hamster to Siberia or a Syrian hamster to Syria ... for some unexplainable reason that doesn't seem to work!

Respectfrilly Yours,

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... now she has gotten in the habit of practically living in the wheel. She takes her bedding up there in the bed and sleeps there. The most annoying thing? I bought her this lil hamster potty cuz if suppsosedly you can train them to go in the same place.

Have you tried putting a little "hampster hamper" in his cage so that he can place his bedding in it while he uses his wheel? Cos, if our little furry friends can be trained to use the potty then surely it must be easier still to educate them in the delightful convenience of using laundry hampers, right ?! Believe lola when he tells you that ALL hamsters have regressive laundry genes in them. If you want to check out the veracity of that little factoid, just put three or more hamsters in a tubular wheel and you will be able to observe them all instantly "hamming it up" by doing a perfect impression of socks in a tumble dryer for ya ...

Alternatively, if you feel you cannot beat Oreo, you might instead want to try joining him. Paint his exercise wheel red and then, when dry, paint 19 black stripes around the inside edge of it. Once this is dry, use white paint to add to each of the 38 alternating red and black stripes the labels "0", "00", and "1" through "36" in a random order. Next remove all Oreo's dry food from his cage and replace it with a bowl of dried peas. Last, but not least, buy a green felt table cloth (actually, you probably should do this one first!) and carefully outline on it in white chalk the design of a roulette table (go to any online casino web site to finalize the details of what this should look like). Now you are finally ready to buy in lots of booze and munchies and invite all your friends over for a wonderfully debauched weekend of gambling, drinking ... and possibly sex. [Note: It's always a good idea to drop hints WRT sex possibly happening on such occasions, even though we all know it rarely ever happens anywhere in the U.S. nowadays! ]

Whatever you do, ensure you don't mix the dipping chips up with the betting chips (and definitely don't confuse either of those with the Oreo chips! ... eeeww ), and also keep the salted peanuts away from Oreo's cage – lest your cookie furball get distracted from his new "hammy role" in life! Remember those two simple rules and your "all-night live Vegas-style gambling event" should be a spectacular social success! Thanks to the internet, gambling is now a trillion dollar industry worldwide, so why shouldn't you stake out a little part of this glorious future for yourselves – and exercise your pet at the same time? And if one of your guests wants to play a little craps ... well, Oreo is already an expert in that area, too, isn't he? Little crapper or dwarf croupier, you can't go wrong! "The stakes are high on the Oreolette Table at the FangsNfeet Casino ... so come one, come all, and place your pets!"

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... which you could also try for the hamster as this is really good to help stop Steve Mcqueen type habits...

Oh yeah, right on, ~Angel~, definitely good advice, hon! One should always be especially wary of those pesky "Steve McQueen type habits" in hamsters. Now, this is a matter that sissy can speak from very personal experience about. A few years ago, four of his own golden hamsters escaped and pulled off a daring daytime robbery at a local bank. The worst part of the whole affair was that once the little vermin had skimmed off all the sunflower seeds and peanuts from their daredevil heist, they then dumped all the stolen bank notes (which, of course, held no interest for them, although the one called "TC" did chew up a few $100,000 bills and used them for extra bedding) into the trash can in the downstairs office.

Well, the next thing you know, old lola was being followed around all the time by this extremely attractive young woman who clearly suspected him, NOT any of the damn hamsters, of being the perpetrator of this dastardly crime. When sissy told her one day that he was somewhat of a perfectionist, well, that was it ... all she could do from then on was talk incessantly about the kind of person that would commit the "perfect crime." The bitch just didn't know when to stop ... that's gonna be the very last time lola dates a friggin' insurance investigator, he can tell ya! Phew! ... Never again! <wipes brow with back of hand>

So, like ~Angel~ advises, you really should keep a careful watch on your hamster just in case any of those darn "Steve McQueen type habits" start showing up in YOUR pet. Unless, of course, you actually ENJOY being followed about everywhere you go by drop-dead gorgeous blondes who keep telling you how "perfect" you are and relentlessly trying to get you into bed! Some of you freaks out there might like that sort of intrusive behavior, but it's just not lola's cup of tea, thank you very much ... sissy isn't THAT much of a masochist! No siree, Bob. So, good call, ~Angel~ ...

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