Cold Weather and Hamsters

As most of you in the UK will have noticed, it has been consistantly below freezing. A big concern during this type of weather is keeping your small furries warm, as they can go into hibernation if they get too cold, which is completely unnatural for hams and often leads to death.

I try to keep the temperature in the hammie room as a constant warmth, and give them extra bedding. If it gets really really cold I place a hot water bottle at the side or underneath the cage to keep them toasty.

If, heaven forbid, you find your ham hibernating then take them out of the cage and wrap them in a warm blanket or towel. They need warming up, but slowly, a huge change in temperature in a short space of time can also cause death. You could also wrap a hot water bottle in the towel and hold the hamster on that.

They are hardy little things but sometimes they need a helping hand from us. So please, in these horrid temperatures, help your hams out all you can, because there is only so much they can do for themselves.

Easy Home-made Boredom Breaker

Here is my step-by-step guide to making your own cheap boredom breaker for your furry friend!

The beauty of this is that it uses up the otherwise useless toilet roll tubes, and doesn't cost anything (apart from the cost of treats...).

First off, this is what you need:

• Toilet roll tube
• Treats of any description as long as they are small and not fresh
• ***Optional*** Toilet tissue - shredded

  First off, get the empty toilet roll tube:

Fold one half of one end over like so:

Then fold the other half of the same end so it seals one end of the tube:

Turn it over and get out a few treats. I chose a vegetable drop, a peanut, and a yogurt drop:

Place them into the tube through the open end (Please excuse my legs, I couldn't get it to stand up):

Then repeat the folding to seal the treats inside:

And there you have it, a super simple, cheap boredom breaker. Mine go nuts for these, and it takes them a good while to get inside. It also gives me something to do with all my spare toilet rolls XD.

***The tube can also be stuffed with plain, unscented toilet roll as well as the treats, to add a little more for your pets to rummage through***

It arrived!

FINALLY Little man's Imac Bingo came today. I've been waiting since 11th January to get one, Pet Supermarket fell through and had horrible customer service when I tried to sort it out, so I cancelled the order after three weeks >_> and re-ordered from Net Pet Shop. I cannot recommend them enough! It was so well packaged, and arrived within 2 days (excluding the weekend).

The packaging, I am very impressed:

I'm so relieved he can get out of his cramped temp cage now, I'm going to rush off and set it up for him :D

P.S can you believe this is retailed for rabbits? *shudder*

The Month of Love

I've gone slightly pink in honour of February! The month of love deserved some recognition on my blog and so there is my token pinkness, and a cute picture of one of the hams XD

Hamster Books

I currently only own two hamster books, the Hamsterlopaedia and the RSPCA Care for Your Hamster.

Both these books have pros and cons, but the one that is by far my favourite is the Hamsterlopaedia. It is so packed full of hamstery information that I can't really fault it. The stuff in there is priceless, especially the health section. If I'm ever in doubt I turn to that, and it usually answers any questions I have.

The RSPCA one I am less enthusiastic about. It is good to a certain extent but some of the information is sightly outdated. The pictures are beautiful though, and it does have little titbits of useful info.

 I bought this one from Amazon for around £3 >>>>

And this one from eBay for the amazingly cheap price of £1.50.

On another note, Britain has been blanketed by snow today!

 So much snow in such a short space of time :o

World Spay Day

So I saw this on Inky and Hannah's blogs and decided to enter. Seen as it is for a really good cause please pop over to this website and vote for me, or any other of the wonderful pets on there.I entered this picture of Winter because I love it so much:

A couple of pounds isn't much but can still make a huge difference, so please give as much as you can :)

Hamster Givaway

Inky's hamster givaway is ending SOON so go enter if you haven't yet for a chance to win :D

Click here