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elusive
I’m sure he’ll like those, I can just imagine him in the grass tunnel!
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Frida
Lovely home for Friedrich 
I agree the shipping costs more than the food sometimes I feed a muslie type with additional pellets plus supplements still haven't found a store which sells the specially recommended muslie type.
Smol Boi has a lovely home, looks great! It took several months for us to tame our Syrian and only from being on the forum have I read it can take longer with Chinese hamsters. They are all so different, but small steps at a time, keeping a routine and lots of patience will hopefully help.
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Mossie
I still haven’t been able to handle Smol Boi, but there has been progress! Since adding the new enrichment, he’s been out when we’ve been awake and had the lights on a couple of times and my husband saw a hamster sized blur yesterday evening.
He loves the tunnels and is very fond of seed sprays, so the current strategy to get him in his playpen is to take the lid off his enclosure each evening around six (there is someone in the room when the lid is off!), feed him at seven, and patiently wait in hopes of him going in his cardboard tunnel so I can swoop in and transfer him to the playpen for taming.
We’re at the six week mark and I haven’t worked out where he’s peeing. My instinct is to divide his home into quadrants and clean the bedding out a quadrant a week. Understanding of hamster care is ever evolving though, so I want to check that this is in line with current best practice. Laubchen, our hamster before Smol Boi just peed in her sand, making things a bit easier on me!
He loves the tunnels and is very fond of seed sprays, so the current strategy to get him in his playpen is to take the lid off his enclosure each evening around six (there is someone in the room when the lid is off!), feed him at seven, and patiently wait in hopes of him going in his cardboard tunnel so I can swoop in and transfer him to the playpen for taming.
We’re at the six week mark and I haven’t worked out where he’s peeing. My instinct is to divide his home into quadrants and clean the bedding out a quadrant a week. Understanding of hamster care is ever evolving though, so I want to check that this is in line with current best practice. Laubchen, our hamster before Smol Boi just peed in her sand, making things a bit easier on me!
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RainbowBrite
I am very happy for you! The enrichment seems to have made Smol Boi feel more secure. I will leave the members who have Chinese hamsters to answer your question. 
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That sounds like real progress I think cleaning a quadrant at a time seems a good idea - as and when needed and depending where they pee - I sometimes only do the house area/area where they pee, and very rarely do the rest of the cage, apart from spot cleaning. But for a hamster who pees in multiple places, then doing a quadrant at a time sounds good.
I think cleaning a quadrant at a time seems a good idea - as and when needed and depending where they pee - I sometimes only do the house area/area where they pee, and very rarely do the rest of the cage, apart from spot cleaning. But for a hamster who pees in multiple places, then doing a quadrant at a time sounds good.
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elusive
That’s great to hear he’s enjoying the new enrichment & starting to get a bit more confident.
I’ve had trouble finding where the pee spot is with some of my Chinese, they do usually pee somewhere in the house but do have a habit of moving it to a new spot just when you find it & clean it!
I just go by smell, taking out small handfuls of bedding from different areas & having a sniff, then just clean what’s necessary, I don’t clean out any other bedding from the house routinely, only when I can tell it needs changing & only do a little at a time.
I’ve had trouble finding where the pee spot is with some of my Chinese, they do usually pee somewhere in the house but do have a habit of moving it to a new spot just when you find it & clean it!
I just go by smell, taking out small handfuls of bedding from different areas & having a sniff, then just clean what’s necessary, I don’t clean out any other bedding from the house routinely, only when I can tell it needs changing & only do a little at a time.