Hamster owners

Well contrary to what pet stores want you to believe Hamsters are a solitary species. Two of the same sex may fight and will stress each other out. It can be done but I think it's always best to go with what's natural to the species. As a youngster, I had 2 females that fought one day and one of them died from her wounds.

That is what I was worried about, but thought I was wrong because you always see them together in the cages.

Be advised that hamsters can be VERY cruel to one another. It's a lot easier to get two that were from the same litter.
 
When is was younger, I had a female teddy bear hamster for about a year. I went and got her a male in hopes of making little hamsters (I was 10 or 11 yrs old). Well about two weeks later, my female literally ATE the male. His head was gone. She was pregnant after she killed him, but ate her babies a day or two after they were born.
 
Females can be so mean.

Now now Angel...we know pet stores aren't the model for the way things should be...lol!
 
They sell puppies at pet stores and we all know puppies don't need to be kept in "aquariums"...lol!
 
Really, I wouldn't....nature is not nice at times and let me say hamsterS can do amazing amounts of damage without you even noticing they are fighting...let alone trying to separate two things locked in mortal combat that are so SMALL!

I got my youngest daughter dwarf hamsters for Christmas. They were babies and I was assured if you get them from the same litter they wouldn't fight. I have 2 boys. They were fine for 6 months, then one of them really started going after the other one constantly. I had to buy another cage and separate them.

Yeah and I just read thru something that said the Dwarf's are more likely to get along than the Syrian (Golden or Teddy Bear) hamsters are! lol!...
 
they are all like Greta Garbo..."I Vant to be....AH-LONE"

before we had kids,the wife and i had a hampster named Sasha who had so many of those habitats all connected together it looked like a little city..

  we called it"Hampsterdam" lol

 

Hamsters do not go well together.  I have three, and they all have diferent cages. Two are siblings, and one is their mom, but they will still fight if put together.  Them getting out is just how they are. Toys may help. And for a while I had a big box filed with blocks with which I made a maze, they had great fun with that, and so did the children who came over.
I have the cage you have to the right for my girl, and she used to push the door open and get out, lol.

The reason we got our hamster, Steve, was due to his inability to get along with his cage mates...according to Petsmart, anyway. While we were in there, I saw a sign for a free rat and a free hamster. Someone had taken the rat, but the hamster was still there. So I asked about him, and the employee told me that they were trying to find him a home because no one wanted to buy him...he was fighting with his cagemates and attacked anyone who picked him up. So, of course, I took him home, and he's fine with us. Of course, he lives alone, but he's gotten better with handling.

Hamsters do not like cagemates. I had an hamster named Sir Chumly Butterball when I was an child. My sister also had an hamster. We had our own rooms, and the hamsters had their own cages. They hated the mere sight of each other.

Ok so I stop at the pet store in my mothers town, and they have a "free hamster" sign. So I look in the cage and it's a big hamster. So I ask the guy why she is free and he says, because she had 3 litters since she had been in the shop, and he did not want her bred anymore, but his stupid employee's keep putting them together. So I took her. I blocked off one cage so they are seperate. I did some research, and read everything on the female eating the male and all that. So they will see eachother through the tunnel and thats as far as it goes.
 
I was telling my husband about it and he was amazed. Funny thing is, my husband was working in my moms town and  he calls my cell and says "what are you doing at the pet store? Do not come home with anything" I was shocked and said "how do you know?" He says " I just drove by and it's easy to spot your van with Elvis in the mirror"
 
 
BTW I went up to a cage with kittens and I asked what he charged. He said $5, because someone dropped them off at the front of the store. I asked him why he didn't have puppys and he said "I do not believe in pups being sold in a pet store, it's cruel and unfair, and most of the time the pups come from terrible breeders. "  I told him that he made the right choice and now he has my business forever.
 
 
So anyhoo, here is a pic of Cindy

i had a hamster named goldie that lived to be 8....i haven't had one since....

Good luck with the hamsters! I have no good advice for you though, I am the worse hampster owner ever. I have banned myself from ever owning another little thing.
 
They always died before I could even name them []
 
My record was a month and a half