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...
Hamsters and Fireworks
The fireworks season started over a week ago here, and with Bonfire Night on Saturday I expect the weekend to get even louder. Although dogs, horses and other animals can find fireworks terrifying, hamsters rarely are bothered by them. My hamsters can be found going...