Care for older hamsters
1. Avoid Feeding hard food: Most hamsters will have broken, crooked, brittle, tooth decay, etc. teeth when they enter the old age. The teeth become fragile and are not suitable for eating dry and hard food. The diet structure of hamsters is very necessary, and they should be fed soft food as much as possible. You can continue to use rat food, but it is best to soak it in water before feeding the hamster. In addition, you can also use additional soft food such as egg white, oatmeal, carrot, and cucumber to feed the hamster. It is worth noting that feeding old hamsters soft food does not mean that they cannot be fed normal rat food. Blindly feeding hamsters soft food will cause their teeth to grow too long and affect their normal eating.
2. Avoid strenuous exercise for hamsters: When hamsters enter old age, their physical strength will decline. Pet owners can transform their cages into single-layer hamster cages, let them live in “bungalows”, and reduce climbing Climbing toys, so that the aging hamster does not get too tired to climb up and down every day. But you don’t need to remove the running wheel. After all, old hamsters also need a certain amount of exercise. It is also good for the body of old hamsters to exercise occasionally.
3. Feeding in separate cages: It is generally not recommended to feed hamsters in co-cages, especially for hamsters of different ages. Because many hamsters are prone to fighting when they are kept in cages, the physical strength and physique of hamsters in the old age have declined, and they are not the opponents of young hamsters. Old hamsters are kept together with young hamsters. It is easy to be bullied, so it is necessary to keep old hamsters alone.
4. Give more care to the aged hamsters
As the hamster gets older, the relationship with the owner becomes deeper and deeper. It’s uncomfortable, so you might as well cherish the time you spend with the elderly, spend more time with it, give it all the necessary care, and let it have a comfortable old age.
