Interesting Facts about Dwarf Hamsters!

1. When dwarf hamsters are pregnant, you can determine the sex of the babies! By controlling the temperature in the room the mother is kept, you can manipulate whether she will have more boys or girls. If you keep her in warmer temperatures, she will have more boys. If you keep her in cooler temperatures, she will have more girls.

2. Dwarf hamsters live about 1.5 to 2 years but can live to be 4.

3. Hamsters cannot be spayed or neutered. In order to stop pregnancy, you must separate the male and female.

4. Once baby hamsters are a week old, the parents most likely will not eat them.

5. Does your hamster avoid his chewsticks and chew on his cage bars? Then try giving him dog biscuits. They're hard, tasty, and wear down his teeth. He will want to chew on the biscuit rather than the cage.

6. Dwarf hamsters' breeding season is from April to September. But, if kept in lighting that stays on for eight hours or more a day, they will continue to breed throughout the entire year.

7. Campbell's dwarf hamsters are a very new breed. They weren't widely sold as pets until around 1995.

8. Hamsters can be taught how to come by name!

9. Hamsters can remember their relatives.

10. Hamster babies, known as 'pups' cannot open their eyes until 2 weeks after birth

11. Hamsters breed in the spring and summer and will produce several litters per year. The average litter size is around 7 pups (babies), however, it is possible for some hamsters to have up to 24 pups in one litter!