Moka!

[dwarfhamstermom]

Hello!
I'm here to start the diary of Moka, our Syrian hamster.
We believe she was born in October 2025 (we don't know exactly as she was a “gift” and was later put up for responsible adoption).

She lives in a 120 cm Bucatstate habitat and has a 32 cm wheel of the same brand, two different substrates, which are paper and moss.
She eats a mixture of Getzoo Syrian hamster food and Bunny Expert Traum as her ‘basic diet’.

She likes to run in her wheel and... anywhere she can. She also LOVES eating EVERYTHING. She doesn't seem to enjoy being touched very much and has a strong personality and is a bit crazy, to be honest.

She arrived home on 22 November. We went to pick her up almost 300 km from home, as her foster home was about 500 km away. Since then, she has always been very curious about us. At first, she didn't come out much, but when we saw her, she would climb onto our hands and take food.

Later, we tried to establish a routine by waking her up at around 11 pm, and she would come out and we would catch her with a ‘mug taxi’. However, lately she has been waking up around midnight. We are concerned that when we are not on holiday, it will be too late to spend time with her. Lately, there have been days when she has ‘asked’ to leave her habitat and climbed onto our hands herself, which made us very happy!

When she comes out, ‘playtime’ with her basically consists of letting her run around because she loves to investigate everything and doesn't pay much attention to the ‘games’ we prepare for her. So, for this reason, we would like to establish earlier routines.

PS: By the way, how much food should she eat? We keep the teaspoons that came with the Rodipet food and we give her 1 every night (she obviously saves food) and, of course, every day we give her some vegetables, fruit or protein (egg, boiled chicken, dried worms or kefir).

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[Maz]

Lovely to hear about Moka Your image hasn't appeared for some reason - maybe try re-adding it? It needs the "attach files" link below (although I think you know that anyway).

Can't remember how much the rodipet spoons hold but it's a tablespoon a day for a Syrian It sounds like a nice mix of Getzoo and Bunny Dream, but I think both are a little low on protein, and they need 18% to 20% protein in the first year, so I would supplement the mixes with fresh food protein extras - eg freeze dried chicken bites, chopped hard boiled egg or scrambled egg - walnuts are very popular! Two to three times a week. Although walnuts you can't really give too many - they only eat a bit when they want to. But get very excited about them (half shelled walnut that is).

 

[Socks' Mum]

So sweet, like Socks who loves his playpen pen time and late hours

 

[dwarfhamstermom]

Lovely to hear about Moka Your image hasn't appeared for some reason - maybe try re-adding it? It needs the "attach files" link below (although I think you know that anyway).

Can't remember how much the rodipet spoons hold but it's a tablespoon a day for a Syrian It sounds like a nice mix of Getzoo and Bunny Dream, but I think both are a little low on protein, and they need 18% to 20% protein in the first year, so I would supplement the mixes with fresh food protein extras - eg freeze dried chicken bites, chopped hard boiled egg or scrambled egg - walnuts are very popular! Two to three times a week. Although walnuts you can't really give too many - they only eat a bit when they want to. But get very excited about them (half shelled walnut that is).

Oh, I’ll reattach the image again. Both mix have dried worms but they don’t have many proteins as if they alive. That’s why we give her boiled chicken, kefir and eggs. Two days ago they had walnuts but we are aware that walnuts should be just 1 per month more or less

 

[dwarfhamstermom]

So sweet, like Socks who loves his playpen pen time and late hours

And they have A LOT of energy, haven’t they?

 

[dwarfhamstermom]

This is our lovely Moka, photo from yesterday night: she was very still on the sofa next to the TV controller and it looked like she was choosing what to watch

 

[Socks' Mum]

And they have A LOT of energy, haven’t they?

I have to put little Socks back in his cage to get more sleep as it's almost always 3am when he gets up, but he comes back to the front door of his cage and meerkats longingly for a while asking to go back to the playpen

 

[Maz]

This is our lovely Moka, photo from yesterday night: she was very still on the sofa next to the TV controller and it looked like she was choosing what to watch

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It's a gorgeous photo - she is so sweet, and seems happy to be stroked I don't think walnuts need to be limited to once a month for Syrians - maybe for dwarf hamsters . I give one or two a week sometimes. They often don't even eat it but put it somewhere special! ie hoard it. Or have the odd nibble now and then. Anyway she's having lots of nice protein extras there.

 

[Hamster Haven]

Welcome Moka!

 

[hamster lover 123]

Mocha is lovely