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What should I feed rabbits?

Rabbit Feed  Providing proper feed for your rabbits is a very important part of successful rabbit raising. A healthy, balanced diet is based on providing commercial rabbit pellets, food mixes and ...

How To Clean & Groom Your Guinea Pig

Why is grooming and cleaning guinea pigs important? Grooming is as important to the health of your guinea pig as proper diet and safe living quarters. Even the cleanest cage will not help a guinea ...

What is a Russian Dwarf Hamster?

Hamster Toys - Our Guide To Hamster Toys

Why should I buy hamster toys for my hamster?  Hamsters love to play! People often associate toys for pets with cats and dogs, but all domestic animals, no matter how great or small in size, needs ...

Hamster Cages and Hamster Wheels - Our Guide

How long do hamster live for? Keeping a hamster is great for all groups of ages of children, but it's important to know that it will be with you for a short period because it has a short lifespan. ...

Guinea Pig Food - A Guide to Feeding Guinea Pigs

Your guinea pig's health depends on a balanced diet that includes guinea pig feed pellets, fresh foods that provide vitamin C, alfalfa for protein and roughage, and fresh water. During warm weather...

Guinea Pig Breeds - A Guide to Guinea Pig Breeds

First of all, why should you choose guinea pigs? Guinea pigs make wonderful pets, even for children as young as 5 years old. Adult guinea pigs weigh 2 to 4 pounds, which makes them easier to handle...

Which rabbit should I choose as a pet?

Why keep rabbits as pets? Raising rabbits as pets is super popular in the UK as they can easily be raised in any type of environment, whether it be country, suburb, or city, and they fit easily int...

Hamster body language – what is your hamster trying to say?

To be quite honest, most hamster-to-hamster interactions deal with aggression or sexual messages as the hamster's highest priority is to survive, and finding a way to mate. Having said that, the wa...

Hamster body language – hamster facial expressions

Hamsters can communicate quite well with each other, using scent, body posture, and sounds, but humans are pretty much limited to interpreting just a few of the postures and some of their sounds. H...

Hamster Food - A Guide To Feeding Hamsters

Pet hamsters are among the easiest small animals to feed, so the easiest thing to do is to buy the best quality hamster food mixes and augment the seed mixes with some fresh fruit and vegetables, a...

Roborovski & Chinese Hamsters - Our Guide

What is a Roborovski Hamster? A rarer dwarf hamster, the roborovski hamster, is less well known than the syrian, campbell and winter white hamsters, but its social nature and petite size have very ...

Winter White Hamsters - Our Guide

What are Winter White Hamsters? The dwarf winter white hamster, or phodophus sungorus in Latin, is originally from the grassy steppes of eastern Kazakhstan and southwestern Siberia. This hamster wa...

Campbell's Hamsters - Our Guide

What are Campbell's Hamsters? The second most popular hamster (after the Syrian hamster of course) is the dwarf Campbell's Russian hamster or phodophus campbelli in Latin. The Campbell's hamster is...

Syrian Hamsters - Our Guide

What are Syrian Hamsters? Syrian hamsters are found all the way from Romania and Bulgaria south-eastward through Syria, Turkey, Israel, the Caucasus and even parts of Iran. The colour of Syrian ham...

A History of Hamsters

When were hamsters first discovered? The earliest published reference to the Syrian golden hamster was in The Natural History of Aleppo, which was published in 1740 by an English physician named Al...