Diabetes Testing a Hamster
Worried about diabetes? Confused by conflicting information? Here’s advice on how to test your hamster for diabetes.
Giving your Hamster Medication
Your vet says ‘give your hamster this medication once a day for one week’. Do you think ‘easy’ or ‘eek’? Here are some top tips on giving medication to hamsters.
Checklist for Hamster Surgery
Your hamster having surgery is a stressful time. It’s easy to forget to ask something at the vet surgery. This hamster surgery checklist is here to help.
How to Quarantine Hamsters
Do you have more than one hamster? Are you thinking about getting a new hamster? If so you need to read this about quarantine for hamsters!
Use of Selamectin in Duprasi
Recently the small furries at Vectis have needed to be treated for mites. I wanted to share the treatment that they had. I asked my vet about using selamectin instead of the more common ivermectin as it requires less frequent dosing (and therefore cleaning), although...