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[CritterLover]

thank you that is very helpful to me!

[Smores530]

I've been looking for tips for hot weather and awesome advice, thank you. Its been around 80F in the house, so i bought a little fan just for her, i have it so it puts a little cross breeze in her home.

[GraceK]

Cold Water is for them to drink. They can't get their fur wet. Idk. They do hibernate though. It can't be to hot though.
- Pecan+2more

Edited by Pecan+2more, 11 June 2013 - 11:47 AM.

[Azayles]

They don't hibernate, their metabolism slows as does heart rate in response to reduced temperatures. This is dormancy, not hibernation. In humans this is called hypothermia.

[Mikila]

Really nice thread! Informative during those changing seasons. 

[ChocolateHamster101]

Could you help me? I might be buying a hamster soon but I don't know wether to wait till next year because ATM it's been highest of 34 degrees, and I don't want my hamster to get ill, ill have fans and a thermometer to check the temperature but I'm still concerned?

Edited by chocolatehamster101, 22 July 2013 - 01:41 PM.

[MissAnimalClay]

Thank you that was very helpful for Summer time

[OIive]

This is so helpful! Love it

[Amarchington]

cold,probably not if you put loads of bedding in its cage.

hot, yes as iv'e had experience with this and as it was to hot for him his skin was getting irritated and started to loose hair.

hope this helps 

[Tofuthehammy]

Thank you so much. My hamster has been acting strange its because its been 95' (thats the closest thing i can get to to the degree sign )here in this state its normally the weather like canada but right now its not so anyways i tried puting an icepack under the place he sleeps and its helped thank you

[HamsterNOMS <3]

Thank you so much, It can get very cold in winter were i live, but it can also get very warm, i have two hamsters Pearl and Peanut, i moved their cages so they were not in direct sunlight.

 

[Kurenair]

The room that my hamster is in which is the room i'm always in other than when I sleep is really cold during the winter months. It used to be a porch so it's all glassed in, not a lot of heat gets in the room either. What I do to keep my hamster warm is take a camping light that you can buy at any hardware store and put a 75 watt bulb in it. I set it face down on my hamsters bin cage(I have hardware mesh on the lid) so it's pretty toasty in the middle of the cage. I wouldn't point it on their house or anything though.

 

Picture is kinda dark but you get the jist. xD

 

 

 

[Fuyu&Jinger15]

Great topic SP!

 

I love your bin!

[Quinnthehamster]

I would just have normal tempature warn but not hot or cold both;)

[Sky Lark]

What is a good humidity for hammys?