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Can Hamsters live in the wild if set free
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Either the cold or the foxes would get it or the inability to forage for food.
You could send it to Peru. Guinea Pigs are revered (the ones that are not eaten), so perhaps there is room for some Hamster loving.
You could send it to Peru. Guinea Pigs are revered (the ones that are not eaten), so perhaps there is room for some Hamster loving.
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Is it on it's own? You could get it a playmate, but I guess that is not the route you want to take. I would advertise it and see if anyone is keen to take it off your hands.
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They attack each other and even eat each other....cant be put in 2s unless there the small hamsters.....
GNF on Tour
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offer it to Adams, it would beef up our midfield!
John Byrnes Mullet
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It will die in an hour or two either through a predator or of cold. My daughter wants a hamster. pm me and maybe we can give the poor thing a good home.
Tom Hark Preston Park
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- Jul 6, 2003
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Uncle C
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Hamsters have this fascination for wheels and they can spend most of their day going round and round.
Unfortunately in the wild this can prove fatal. Suffering withdrawal symptoms, they will often head for a main road, where they can take one last circuit stuck to a car wheel.
Unfortunately in the wild this can prove fatal. Suffering withdrawal symptoms, they will often head for a main road, where they can take one last circuit stuck to a car wheel.
Twinkle Toes
Growing old disgracefully
Is it the kind of Hamster who could BOSS the middle of the park though? Maybe it's got an eye for goal? If so, why not use it as an IMPACT RODENT & haul Murray off with 20 mins to go?!! Oi, Vulture! What's the lil' critter's name - so we can get a chant going?
Lush
Mods' Pet
- Aug 7, 2003
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France faces huge fine for failing to save great hamster of Alsace
By Emily Murphy in Paris
Friday, 7 December 2007
Independent.co.uk
Ordinarily you would not expect to fork out more than about €20 (14) for a pet hamster. France however has been threatened by the European Commission with a fine of €17m or €28,333 per animal for failing to protect the only colony of wild hamsters in western Europe.
The rodent in question is the "great hamster of Alsace", otherwise known as the European hamster (Cricetus cricetus) of which there are only 600 remaining in eastern France. As recently as 30 years ago this creature, far from being endangered, was considered a farmland pest in Alsace. From about the middle of the 20th century various methods were used to try to eradicate it. This war against the hamsters was rather too successful and in 1993 the one-time "pest" was added to France's list of endangered mammals.
Yet despite the cessation of its active destruction, the remaining hamster population has failed to increase. Its struggle to survive is now being threatened by urban and agricultural developments that have diminished its food supply.
The hamster, with its white paws, black stomach and reddish-brown back, was not called the "great hamster of Alsace" out of affection. Measuring 20cm in length, it is more similar to a guinea-pig than a domestic hamster.
Stphane Giraud, of the Group for the Study and Protection of the Mammals of Alsace, says that if the species is to survive there needs to be at least two burrows per hectare. In Alsace the strongest population densities are only 0.1 to 0.2 burrows per hectare.
The problem facing the hamsters is that once-plentiful cabbages, which were their favourite diet, have now been abandoned by farmers for more lucrative maize. So when the hamster awakes from its hibernation in March there is nothing to eat. It is forced to traverse long distances to find not only food but also a mate. A journey often littered with roads and housing developments.
In 2000 a rescue plan was launched, with the government making available €52,000 to encourage farmers to plant crops other than maize. Given that maize earns far more than other crops, the attempt failed. This year 100 artificially reared hamsters have been released, but M. Giraud is doubtful that this will work. "If we are going to have a wild species of hamster in Alsace it needs the right environment to live in," he said.
By Emily Murphy in Paris
Friday, 7 December 2007
Independent.co.uk
Ordinarily you would not expect to fork out more than about €20 (14) for a pet hamster. France however has been threatened by the European Commission with a fine of €17m or €28,333 per animal for failing to protect the only colony of wild hamsters in western Europe.
The rodent in question is the "great hamster of Alsace", otherwise known as the European hamster (Cricetus cricetus) of which there are only 600 remaining in eastern France. As recently as 30 years ago this creature, far from being endangered, was considered a farmland pest in Alsace. From about the middle of the 20th century various methods were used to try to eradicate it. This war against the hamsters was rather too successful and in 1993 the one-time "pest" was added to France's list of endangered mammals.
Yet despite the cessation of its active destruction, the remaining hamster population has failed to increase. Its struggle to survive is now being threatened by urban and agricultural developments that have diminished its food supply.
The hamster, with its white paws, black stomach and reddish-brown back, was not called the "great hamster of Alsace" out of affection. Measuring 20cm in length, it is more similar to a guinea-pig than a domestic hamster.
Stphane Giraud, of the Group for the Study and Protection of the Mammals of Alsace, says that if the species is to survive there needs to be at least two burrows per hectare. In Alsace the strongest population densities are only 0.1 to 0.2 burrows per hectare.
The problem facing the hamsters is that once-plentiful cabbages, which were their favourite diet, have now been abandoned by farmers for more lucrative maize. So when the hamster awakes from its hibernation in March there is nothing to eat. It is forced to traverse long distances to find not only food but also a mate. A journey often littered with roads and housing developments.
In 2000 a rescue plan was launched, with the government making available €52,000 to encourage farmers to plant crops other than maize. Given that maize earns far more than other crops, the attempt failed. This year 100 artificially reared hamsters have been released, but M. Giraud is doubtful that this will work. "If we are going to have a wild species of hamster in Alsace it needs the right environment to live in," he said.
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In a word, NO. They are natives of the Syrian desert and won't last a second out there in this country. And don't even think of putting two Syrian hamsters together.
Just call the RSPCA, they'll come and take the poor thing away.
Just call the RSPCA, they'll come and take the poor thing away.
Stumpy Tim
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Did it not seem cruel when you first got it??
Nibble
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- Jan 3, 2007
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Sounds very under stimulated to me. Hamsters like to be handled and can become anxious and agressive without regular contact. Hamsters love to climb so get him out and pop him on a couch with some piled up cushions. Hide his food around the couch or in his cage so he has to look for it. It is very cruel to ignore any domesticated animal and offer no stimulation whatsoever.
Nibble
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Man of Harveys
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There you go - send it to lovely eastern France and it can happily become an ALSATIAN