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Bathtub Bash
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Make your bathtub into a hamster playground. Add hamster-safe toys, a sand bath, cardboard boxes or tubes, hidden treats, etc. Let your hamster have some free time to play without your supervision. The good thing about it is that it's escape-free (except if one of the boxes is too tall. I did have one hamster who flung himself out of the bathtub by leaping from a tall box!).
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Blockout
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Buy some blocks, and build a little fort or obstacle course. Watch your hammy crawl around and knock over blocks.
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Box fun
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Get a box and put a thin blanket folded in half and place your hams food dish in the middle or in a corner of the box. Carefully set your hamsters inthe box and watch them play, sometimes they make burrows in the corner under the blanket.
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Box fun
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Take a storage box and put two or three thin blankets at the bottom so your hams feet aren't cold,Then put afew small boxes in(but make sure the boxes aren't to weak or to high.)
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box time fun
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take 4 good sized boxes and cut the top of just so you can see the hamster but make sure that it can not climb out . then take 4 long paper towl rowsand trace a circle on 2 sides of each box the cut it out and stick the rowls in the holes make sure it ends in a big square then take a smaller box and cut a hole on each side then cut the biger paper towl rows so you can put the smaller one in then atach the rolws to the middle box and make sure there are no ways of exscaping then fill the boxs with your hamsters favorot treats. it is realy fun to watch and is great way to work out for your hamster
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Cardboard Tube Connecters
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You have to get cardboard tubes from toilet paper and paper towels. You can tape them together. Then lay it diagonally from your bed to your floor. At the end of the tunnel, put a cardboard box with a soft blanket so your hamster can climb up and down. Make sure it's a tall tissue box so your hamster can't climb out at the top. You can have another tissue box.
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Cardboard tunnels
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Make tunnels and other interesting shapes to crawl through out of thick paper or cardboard. Fun to run through and then chew through!
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Carnival
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Make a Carnival for your hammie. Make sure you provide lots of food and tube setups in your carnival. Decorate your place a bit. Put music on. I madea slide for my hammie, and I put in a box and taped it on my remote control car to make it a little roller coaster. Make some other rides. Your hammie will love it!
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Cookie Jar/Fish Bowl Bath
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Pick up a small cheap clear glass fishbowl or one of those old fashioned, clear glass, cookie/candy containers. Fill it's bottom with Chinchilla sand. Both fishbowls and old fashioned cookie/candy containers have flat sides, so turn it on it's side and arrange the sand. Push some bedding material toward the opening of the bowl/jar so that Hammies can reach the entrance easily and "voila"! A sand bath that is mostly enclosed to keep more sand "IN" where it belongs. It is also easy to clean due to the large opening, the glass can be properly sanitized in a dishwasher that has a sanitize cycle, hammy can't chew the glass and you can have a great view of hammy since it is a see-through container.
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Crunchy Carrots
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Get a carrot and break it in half.Just hold the carrot with your hamster in your lap, and wait until your Hamster comes to it and He/she will nibble on the carrot.It's really amusing watching him/her take big nibbles.
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Daily Surprise
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To pique your hamster's curiosity and prevent boredom, try to introduce one new item into your hamster's environment each day. It could be a new treat, a branch of safe wood, a wooden block, a hard nut, a cardboard box, a paper bag, a large container, etc. Be sure it's hamster-safe. The next day remove it and use something new.
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Easy endless fun your hammy!
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Fill a empty 10 gallon tank (that's not your hammy's main home) and fill it to the brim with bedding. Your hammy will have a blast digging and digging! (and making a mess) You can also build a Super Pet puzzle playground and put it under the bedding so that it is a underground playground! :0)
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candygirl120
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Exploring Outside
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I bought a leash for my hamster so I could take her outside, and she loves to sit and eat grass. (Note: Make sure the leash isnt too tight or loose,and that you keep your hamster away from gardens sprayed with pesticide, garbage, etc.) (Another note: leashes are only fun for calmer hamsters that let you put the leash on them)
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Reject27
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Follow the Food
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Take a hamster treat, something very small. Let's say it's rolled oats. Place just one of these every inch in a straight line on a flat surface. Put your hamster at the first oat. Watch him as he eats them up in a straight line. Measure how far he goes. Try it again on another day. See if he exceeds his "record" of the day before. You can substitute other favorite treats. They should all be the same kind on the same day and the same size. You can also test which are the favorites by seeing how many of the treats are eaten.
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Fun
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Nig likes to have fun when I flip her over and rub her belly. She also loves to try to get out of her travel home and her permanent home. She will eat through anything plastic. She is so fat that when she tries to clean her feet, she flips herself over in the air!
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Fun for your hamster
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You can get a wheel for your hamster, and he or she will have hours of fun!!!!!!!!!!
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Fun Run
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My dwarf hamsters love an old glass mixing bowl I keep in the kitchen. When I have a hamster along and need my hands free, I plunk him in the bowl for a run. They never reach the rim, but they don't get tired of trying either!
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Jane_Landis
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Fun Time
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My ham loves to go outside during the summer. When he is inside, and he is awake, he also loves to chase my pet cats around the living room and kitchen area.
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ElliotLakeGirl2003
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Fun!
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Buy some Geometric Modules ( a couple of £s from most local pet shops) and build weird and wacky tunnels and playareas for your hamster. i can guarantee they will love it! :-)
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Gymnastics in a box
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Fill a box with things to climb on, with hidden treats, etc. Sit back and watch. Very stimulating for hamster and hamster-lover
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Hammie fun in bed
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Take all the covers off a bed. Than take a hamster and put him in the bed. Cover the bed with treats and surprises. Then your hamster is ready to jump. Take about 3 pillows and stack them up. Then put a couple treats on the stack. Show the fuzzball what's down there. They'll slide right off the bed, hit the pillows, and have a treat. It's fun for the both of you. [Mgr's note: Do not allow your hamster to jump directly on the hard floor. A fall from a high place to a hard surface may result in injury or death of a hamster].
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Hammie Mobile
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For people who have legos. Make a car. (For those who have syrian hammies, make sure it's big enough for your hammie to fit in.) After you make your Hammie Mobile (Be sure you make a hole for your hammie), find a place you can tie a very very long string on you mobile. Then when you're done, just put your hammie in and start pulling! You're hammie will love it!
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Dragonslayer6711
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Hammie Town
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Get some cardboard boxes and some tubes.Make fun obstacles and all the creative ideas you can think of into the boxes.Then connect the boxes with tubes.Its really entertaining to watch and hamster will have lots of fun!
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Hammy House
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My hamster Freya LOVED this, wot you do is find a dols house that you wouldn't mind getting trashed and move all the small parts, so just leave hamster sized chairs and beds. Place your hamster in the house and watch him/her run their own house, its soooo cute!!!! LOZA =D
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Hamper Hammies
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When I have a hamster along and needs my hands free in the bathroom, I plop him into the clothes hamper for a little burrowing adventure. Caution: not for chewers!
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Jane_Landis
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Hamster Funtime
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Hi! I let my golden hamster Scrappy run around the house. Make a playground with rocks, branches, tunnels and mazes, and maybe a wheel for your hamster to run on. He also likes to climb in my laundry basket and on the couch with me. Just make sure you close all doors. It's great to watch him run as fast as he can he gets so excited =)
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hamster galore ride
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get a toilet paper tube. you get a mini slide or slope (you can make one out of cardboard).Put your hamster in the tube and it will slide down the slide.
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Hamster Holiday House
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In a large, closed-in area (bathtub, box, bucket, etc.), arrange doll furniture to make it look like a miniture house. Put shavings on the bed, couches, chairs, floor, and many other places. Then, take your hamster for a little holiday! (don't forget to put a food-bowl and water-bottle/bowl in the house)
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Hamster In the Mug
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It's a mug (or two mugs) that your hamster (or hamsters) would like to sleep in. Put a treat in one, and time how long it takes her/him to find the treat, or put the treat in both. It's fun for you and your hamster. Try putting hamster bedding in the mug.
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Hamster versing
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You and a friend place your hamster into a small box, close it and wait for noise to cease....winner take all deathmathch!!! this allows for betting an such as a source of entertainment for the owner
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Hamster Wonderland
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Turn your hamsters cage into a hamster wonderland!Week 1:Replace the bottom of your hamster's cage with a burrowing tank to make the "hamsterlarium" room.Week 2:Add a sloping tunnul that goes along the floor leading to a large tank with hamster exercize equiptment.Week 3:Out of the side of the "hamsterlarium"'s burrowing tank add a short tunnul that turns onec with a small "bathroom" tank at the end.(Use a clear plastic tube to hold up the "bathroom".)Week 4:On the turn in the "bathroom tunnul" add a tunnul leading to another tank with a maze.Week 5:Add an "up tunnul" leading to a room that looks like its outside and add a very curvy tunnul leading to the "gym room" and vola, a perfect hamster home!(if you are breeding add a nesting chamber and if you cant afford or don't have room for the whole wonderland,a hamsterlarium is enough.
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hamster zone
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find some paper towl or toilet paper tubes & some boxes of different sizes.put a tube on the box where u want it to go then trace. cut the hole and put the tube in there ( don't use tape or glue, it could harm the hammy) repete 4 the others till u got a huge tube maze!!! u can also cut holes on the top of the tubes 4 air & so ur little hammy can pop his head out of the tubes!!!!
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Brookie94
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Hand Shuffle
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Whatz really fun is when they are crazy and up at night and u shuffle them in your hands, they think they are goin somewhere but they're not!! My hamsters have a ball!! hehe
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Happy Birthday!!!
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Make a birthday party for your hammie! Give new toys. Give lots of food and maybe adopt a new friend (only buy a new hammie if your hamster is a dwarf because Syrians fight). Have other hammies you already own to come to the party. Give lots of toys!! Happy Birthday!
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Dragonslayer6711
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Hook-up
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I am gonna try this one day... My Ham Ham Chewy (ChewChewChan) loves to climb. She climbs all over the cage and has fun. I want to some day get tons of tubes and get Crittertrail, Habittrail, and SAM cages and hook them together and make them go in through all kind of things! I think many hamsters would love it! Especially explorers and climbers like my Baby Chewy-Chan!
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hurdling
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in an empty space, put little toy sticks up to leap height. This is one way my hamster gets his excersise. make sure that they are not too high or he might not jump them.
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Igloo Dig Box
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I found out that the mini igloo I bought for a nesting house was too big for my two dwarfs, so I just had it laying around. It serves as a good digging box if you turn it over and fill it with Carefresh and bury treats in it. Your ham can climb up into the "doorway" platform and then dive in.
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Liquor Store Maze
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Get one of those cardboard boxes sold by your local liquor store. You know...the kind that has those bottle dividers. Cut some openings (hamster doors!) in a few of the dividers and watch your hamster move through the maze. Be sure to put a treat in at least one or two of the compartments.
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Love that gal--Love you!
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This only works if you have two Syrian hamsters--a male and a female. First play with the female hamster. Touch your nose. Wash your hands. Then pick up your male hamster and let him smell your nose. He'll be sure to promptly kiss (lick) your nose right away!
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Maze
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Just cut a big piece of cardboard and make a maze hamsters love mazes and put alittle treat at the end of each dead end!!
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Maze-in-Fun
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Firat make a maze, you can make a maze out blocks. Make sure you put a treat at the end of the maze for a reward for finding its way out.My ahmster loves mazes! It always gives them excerise!
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Noisy treats
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Wrap a small treat in a loosely wadded ball of crinkly tissue paper. Not only do hamsters love treats, they love making noise as they find one too!
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Jane_Landis
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Peanut butter snack
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My hamster LOVES peanut butter! I was feeding her some on my finger, and she tried to stuff my finger in her cheek pouch! Anyway, this is a good snack to give your hammy : First, take a piece of bread and flatten it so it's thin. Second, you can cut the bread into a smaller piece for your ham. Third, spread peanut butter on the piece bread (not too much). Fourth, take the piece of bread and sprinkle hamster food all over it, make sure you cover all of the peanut butter. Then give it to your hamster, and he'll eat it all up!
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Peanut Butter Tube
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Get a paper towel tube and smear the inside with a layer of peanut butter. Place it in their cage. It's really funny watching them eat the peanut butter.
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Pick and Choose
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This should be fun for both you and your hamster. Make a large circle of hamster treats. Each treat should be different. Be creative. Use grains,nuts, fruits, veggies. Use only a small bite of each. Next, place your hamster in the center of the circle. See which treat he eats first, second, and so forth. It's a good way to learn which foods your hamster likes best. For some food suggestions that are safe, take a peek at Pet Web Site's Feeding Your Hamster. My daughter had great fun doing this as part of a school science experiment using only different kinds of nuts with our hamster. Our family tried really hard to predict which was the favorite nut. We were all wrong! Try it yourself to see what happens.
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Pool-table fun for everyone
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I put my hamster on the pool table. I give her a stick. Then I put a pool ball on the table. Then I put a trail of food so she puts the stick in her mouth and pushes the ball into the hole.
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Private Playground
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Fill a plastic or cardboard box (preferrably transparent) up to 5 fingers before the brim (so it won't try to climb out and fall!) and hide some toilet rolls deep inside. Also, stuff in some carrot bits, cold grapes (seedless!) and/or bits of graham crackers etc. in the sawdustbox. Let your ham in and let it play for a while in it. Watch it burrow and play in the tunnels, finding treats! Each time it stays under the sawdust for almost 2 mins, handfeed a treat/praise it. Add othe ham-safe toys like paper cups, blocks etc to add to the fun. That'll keep your ham busy besides letting it sleep all day! =)
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Run-Around Ball
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Get one of those run-around balls, but make sure you put it on tight, trust me, I found that out the hard way!..Let them run around the house..my hamsters love it and itz hours of fun!!
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Sandbox Time
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If you've never provided a sandbox for your ham, this is a MUST! Use chinchilla sand (never chinchilla dust). Open a packet of it into a sturdy high-walled flat container. Place this inside a cardboard box (to avoid scattering the sand all over your house). Place your hamster inside and watch him start rolling and digging! It may take a few tries until he catches on to what to do, but he'll eventually love it. It's also a great way to keep your hamster's coat from getting too greasy.
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Slide
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My little brother got a lego set with a slide in it, so I attached the slide to a lego platform, then built stairs so the hamster could get up, then put something squishy at the bottom so the hamster didnt get hurt. It's very amusing to watch, but the hamster gets bored of climbing stairs so it can slide fairly quickly.
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Reject27
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Slide N Glide
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Get a stuffed animal, and put it on a slippery floor. Next get your hamster, and place it on the stuffed animal. Now, place your stuffed animal on the floor. Then put your hamster on the stuffed animal and push your hamster around on the floor, or you could just slide your hamster around on the floor!
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Storage Bin
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Take a rubbermaid or simliar type large storage bin and fill it with about 6 inches of Carefresh pet bedding. Then take a cardboard tube large enough for them to crawl through (you can use a habitrail or sam tube too), and place a treat inside of it. Then put it on the bottom of the storage bin under the bedding. Next add your hamster and watch him burrow and dig to find the treat.
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Suicidal hammy!
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I swear! My hamster is insane! Her name is puddle. Her cage is sitting on top of a desk-ish thing which is about 2 feet high. (I made a little ladderso she can climb up and down. Ha ha ha! She climbs UP... but then she will go over to the edge and jump off! i swear she says "wheee!" on her way down. She does it over and over again. I can't figure out why. lol.
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SWEET TREATS
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GET SOME HONEY, AND SOME GRAINS AND SOME BANANA'S AND LEMON JUICE AND MAKE HAMPSTER BALLS!!! BUT NEVER EVER USE PEANUT BUTER... CAUSE IT IS REALLY BAD FOR HAMPSTERS, THEY CAN CHOKE ON IT AND IT WILL GET STUCK IN THEIR CHEEKS!!
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Table Time!
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I set up an amusement park for my hamster! I put differint hamster safe toys and treats! Hampsy loved it!
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ellcat
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The Raisin Game
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Get one of those tiny snack packs of raisins. Eat most of the raisins yourself, but put one or two remaining raisins back in the box. Close the boxand give it to your hamster. What fun she'll have trying to get to that fragrant and tasty treat. And what a reward she'll get when she finds it!
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Tickles
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All my hammies loved this. Wear a long sleeved shirt, a long sleeved shirt with a collar, or, even better, a sweater with a hood. This will work withpants, too. Next, take your hammy, and show her the opening to your sleeve. If she is a tunneling hammy, she'll go right in. Hold your arm out, and let her crawl right up to your shoulders. You need to get someone else to retrieve them when they crawl onto your back, though! Also, if you don't want your hammy in your shirt, place her on your shirt next to a collar or hood. She'll crawl right under it and try to burrow. It's really cute!
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Tunnel fun
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Get a few cardboard tubes and put some hamster treats or little bits of dried fruits in a straight line inside the tunnel. Then put the next tunnel in front of it with different treats in there. Position the tunnels so that they lead up to a new hamster toy or some of his favourite treats.
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Walking your hammy on a leash
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Ok...I bought a leash for my hamster, and it SO cool! I can walk her around the house, and it's really cute. The leash fits good on a hammy, and they seem to like it. So buy a leash for your hamster, and let her/him walk around and explore. Its really fun!
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