I’ve had these hamsters for about a year (named Belle & Sebastian despite both of them being male), and they’ve grown from little babies to full-blown horny hamsters. The frequency of their fights increases every single day, and the noise is starting to irritate me. They chase each other around the cage and try to bite each other’s genitals… are they trying to castrate each other? I know I should seperate them but I just don’t have space for another cage! They are very territorial; they sleep seperately. One of them already has a torn ear as a result from the fights.
I didn’t want to keep a male and a female because they make too many babies. Should I consider giving one away? Do hamsters get lonely? :help:
Have they been neutered?
My male guinea pig got a lot less aggressive after neutering, but he also got a lot less active and is quite fat now. I guess two males will have territory issues.
[quote] Hamster Violence
Sherry Nee
You had never thought such violence could occur in your beloved pet’s little home but one day, you came home to find blood and body parts. You even cringe thinking about it now. It could have been the scene of a fatal hamster fight or infanticide (parents killing the young) and later cannibalism (consumption of other dead hamsters).
Hamster fights can occur between any individuals, even if they are related or have been staying together for a long time. A common setting for such a tragedy is keeping more than one Syrian in a single enclosure - this should be avoided! Syrian hamsters are like hermits - they love to have their homes all to themselves and hate visitors. They show no mercy to those that trespass! The need to guard territory is instinct and cannot be “made to go away” with time. Some owners believe that their hamsters need company and will get lonely and bored, just as we would if we were to live alone with no company. This kind of thinking could probably have arisen due to what is known as “anthropomorphism”. This rather long word refers to projecting human qualities and ideals onto animals and their behavior. For example, people might think that snakes are evil just because they think that snakes are ugly and that carnivores are cruel when they kill a seemingly harmless prey. But, from nature’s point of view, neither are snakes inherently evil nor is a tiger or lion purposely desiring to be cruel. b[/b] petsjunction.com/avantgo/37.htm[/quote]
Theres also this The Fighting Hamsters of Calontir
[quote=“MJB”]Simple…Pick the more obnoxious of the two and send Josefus a PM. He has a Ball Python that will take care of the problem in about 30 seconds.
My Boa Constrictor loved nothing more than munching half a dozen hamsters for Sunday lunch… [/quote]
you’d be surprised at the number of times I’ve had this option offered to me… but the answer will always be NO!
I took these guys in because nobody wanted them and I didn’t want them to become those icky street rats… or python food…
Are they big golden/syrian hamsters or little dwarf hamsters ?
Golden hamsters are solitary animals and you should only have one in a cage.
Dwarf hamsters however like to live in groups.
Seperate them. The dominant one will kill the other one. Without a doubt. Really kill it dead – guts hanging out, legs chewed off. Its not pretty and it will definitely happen.
An ex-coworker of mine had 3 dwarf hamsters in a cage together. She had to separate all of them because they became extremely aggresssive toward each other. I never knew hamsters could make such a load noise. All my dwarf hamsters have always lived alone. They have always seem relatively content with this arrangement. Or am I assigning human traits to my pets again?
I don’t think it’s anything to do with their sex or whether they’re neutered or not. You’re just going to have to seperate them. Instead of the vet, go the cage shop, which is probably the same place.
Guinea pigs are not Syrian Hamsters, Guinea pigs can live together. Dwarf hamsters are different from Syrians. Dwarf hamsters can live together, but Havilina’s experience shows that is not always the case
