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Originally Posted by chachi  My neighbors have gotten a hampster and now My 6 year old Daughter really wants one. I told her the only way she could have one is if she fed it and helped clean its habitrail. Has anyone on here gotten one for their kids at this age. Were your kids good about feeding and cleaning up after them when the newness wore off? We are thinking of getting a habitrail for it with the tubes to climb up. Do they smell? Any unput you have about hampsters or small animals is apreciated |
I got my kids dwarf hamsters when my oldest was 9 and they were thrilled, they loved helping with cleaning but after a while it was really just me
doing all the work
.
They are little scam artists, once one of them got out (who knows how) and ended up under the range
, actually I bought them this little car they could "drive" and they learned how to positioned it where it was under the entrance of the cage
on the top part. Very smart little guys
They don't smell, they STINK
, it got to the point to were we were cleaning the cage twice a week
and they still smelled..........................it was bad, no matter what I cleaned it with, including bleach. Soaking, disnfecting didn't help, I was even buying them a special shaving that was supposed to stop their urine from smelling, it didn't work
On the good part they are very cute
, but I ended up spending more on the cage and toys than on the hamsters
.