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 \nVarieties…  ………………………Popular breedsYour hamster.Male or female?Choosing your hamster  \nHousing your hamster.Cages  \nVivarium/plastic cagesIntroducing the cage9The hamster food guide………10Food glorious food10Good treat foods10Pellets10TreatsWaterPlay time..12…       ……  …        …Exercise12Play12Accessories13  \n[]Vitamin supplement  \n## Getting started...\n\n[]Bottle brush  \nYour checklist for a happy healthy pet  \n[]Hamster playball  \n[]Exercise wheel  \n[]Hamster cage  \n[]Tubes &wooden toys  \n[]House or bedroom  \n[]Gnawing sticks or chews  \n[]Woodshavings  \n[]Hamster treats  \n[]Hamster bedding  \n[]Cage disinfectant  \n[]Hamster food  \nUseful books  \n[]Food bowl  \n[V]Good Pet Guide:The Hamster  \n[]Water bottle  \n[]Pet Friendly:Hamsters  \n[]Mineral stone  \n## Introduction\n\n1.Syrian hamster  \nSyrian hamsters or(latin:Mesocricetus auratus)is a member of the rodentfamily and has been a popular little furry friend for almost 70 years.  \nTheir popularity has stemmed from their availability and ease of keep.Theytake up little room and are inexpensive to purchase and to care for.Young andold alike find their cute cheeky faces and charm irresistible to ignore and a joyto own.  \nThese little pets are available in a vast variety of coat textures and colors.Themost popular of which is the Golden hamster,bearing a close resemblanceto the original wild variety.Other coat markings are:Tortoise shell,self colors,bandedand dominant spotted(p4).Coat textures vary from smooth coated,silky coat and the ever popular Angora or 'Teddy bear'hamster as it is betterknown.The Angora sports long hair and needs regular grooming and hasdifferent bedding requirements than the shorter haired variety.  \nThe Syrian hamster will make for a perfect first pet forslightly older children as they can become startled,and can give an over excited young fingera nip.However,hamsters by nature are gentle andfriendly little creatures and with regular handlingbecome very tame and will even actively seekout their owners attention.As with their wild  \ncounterparts(which are veryrareanda lot smaller thanpethamsters)the domesticated hamster still retainstheir nocturnal behaviors and will sleep for most ofthe day,coming to life and looking to play aroundearly evening.  \nUnlike a lot of our pet animals the Syrian hamster is apurely solitary animal and will not take to cage mates,even of the opposite sex.  \nHamsters are allround great pets,and given thecorrect treatment(as outlined in this book)theywill genuinely thrive in a loving environmentand be a great addition to the family.  \n## 2.Origins&habitat\n\nAll Syrian hamsters that we find in the pet shops todayare descendants of one female found by Dr.IsraelAharoni in 1930.  \nShe was discovered hiding in a deep borrow with 12 youngpups in the Aleppo region of Syria,(hence the name Syrianhamster).However,earlier documentation has been foundto suggest that the humble hamster was first documentedby George Waterhouse in 1839,but wasn't studied foralmost another hundred years later.In fact it wasn't until1945 that these charming and solitary creatures began tobe kept as pets.The oldest'Hamster Fanciers Association'isthe National Hamster Council established in 1949 in UK.  \nIn the wild,hamsters live lone secretive lives,in borrowsdug out of the dusty earth around fields and bases of lightlygrassed mounds.Syrian hamsters are extremely territorialand will only actively seek out their own kind to mate.Thisact in itself is very dangerous for the male hamster becauseif the female is not interested in the males advances shemay attack him,sometimes with fatal consequences.ASyrian hamster will only tolerate others through the earlyweeks of their lives while weaning.Around the age of 10 to12 weeks when either testostero","cbCairJ2BsmEVS1i","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCairJ2BsmEVS1i","pdf",1362658,28,"English","# Introduction\n## 1. 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