These fruits, vegetables and herbs are all suitable for your hamster. Make sure you give them a good wash before you feed them to your hamster and only feed a small amount each day. A behavioral characteristic of hamsters is food hoarding. They carry food in their spacious cheek pouches to their underground storage chambers. When full, the cheeks can make their heads double, or even triple in size. [2] Hamsters lose weight during the autumn months in anticipation of winter. This occurs even when hamsters are kept as pets and is related to an increase in exercise. [21] Social behavior Hamsters fighting They can gnaw on untreated softwood. Before you give them any softwood branches to chew, bake them on a low heat for an hour and give them a good wash to make sure they’re safe for your hamster. Good woods to use are: Scattering some of their food pellets around their cage instead of feeding them from a bowl. This is a really good idea if you have one hamster that is very protective of the food bowl and won’t let other hamsters have their fair share of the meal. While most dwarf species are limited in their colors, this species can come in a wide variety of different colors and sheens. They’re also very bold, friendly, active, and fun to watch.

This species digs burrows as deep as 5 feet beneath the ground. It doesn’t hibernate, so year-round it forages for roots, plants, seeds, and hunts insects. 13. Kam Dwarf Hamster Food-Related Aggression: Hamsters can become aggressive if they are territorial over their food or treats. Make sure you are not reaching into their cage when they are eating or taking away their food while they are still eating.Thomas A. Scott (1995). Concise encyclopedia biology (Rev.ed.). Berlin: Walter de Gruyter. p. 299. ISBN 978-3110106619.

Hamsters possess a remarkable sense of smell that plays a crucial role in their communication and social interactions. By detecting scents from other hamsters’ scent glands, they can discern crucial information such as gender, relatedness, and individual identity. Mother hamsters can identify their own offspring by their unique scent, and they can even detect if there’s an unfamiliar baby in their litter. Moreover, their scent glands are employed for territorial marking and attracting potential mates during the breeding season. These olfactory behaviors are complemented by visual cues conveyed through body language, as hamsters use a diverse range of expressions to express emotions like happiness, fear, curiosity, aggression, and more. Additionally, they engage in limited forms of sign language when communicating with one another. Wear a long-sleeved jumper with some of the bedding smell on the sleeves, and use the sleeves to cover your hands. Allow your hamster to walk on to your covered hands in their own time. After a few sessions of doing this you can slowly reveal your hands and encourage them to walk across and gently stroke your hamster.They Grey Dwarf hamster has an average body length of 4 inches with a furry tail that’s about 1/3 of that length. Its fur is brownish-grey with white underparts. It also has large ears and a flattened skull. Animal charities see thousands of unwanted hamsters given up each year, so please consider adopting one from a centre such as ours. Hamsters do not naturally hibernate in the wild, but domestic hamsters can enter a state called 'torpor', which looks very similar. Most hamsters are strictly solitary. If housed together, acute and chronic stress may occur, [8] and they may fight fiercely, sometimes fatally. Dwarf hamster species may tolerate siblings or same-gender unrelated hamsters if introduced at an early enough age, but this cannot be guaranteed. Hamsters communicate through body language to one another and even to their owner. They communicate by sending a specific scent using their scent glands and also show body language to express how they are feeling. [17] Chronobiology