Well, I guess Twitch and Pixie decided to switch places! xP Pixie is progressing amazingly with the hand-taming since my husband started working with her, but Twitch now bites more than ever! My husband has been taming hamsters since he was VERY young, and he said that as far as he can remember, Twitch is the hardest one he’s EVER had to tame. He thinks that something must have happened to her before we got her, someone dropped her, squeezed too hard or something. I personally think that she’s just got worse eyesight than other hamsters, because she hardly EVER has her eyes completely open, and when she bites him it seems to be more out of fear than aggression (except when he’s not holding her and she’s in the cage, she’ll run up to his hand and bite him – so, it’s kind of a toss up.) And we’re also starting to worry about how much she drinks….we have an 8oz. bottle and it barely takes her two days to drink ALL OF IT! Pixie barely drinks 1/4 of her 4oz. bottle in twice that time! Not only that, but she bites the end instead of licking it, which is EXTREMELY annoying. I don’t know if that has to do with her eyesight being bad or what, but neither Tweak nor Pixie does that.
Pixie is getting to be a lot calmer since I figured out the trick to handling her…moving VERY slowly. Like, moving a half an inch every couple of seconds. If you move any faster than that, she seems to get anxious and just runs away from your hand. We tried laying our hand (still) in the bottom of the cage, but she won’t pay any attention to it unless you start inching it towards her a little, then she’ll get curious and come up for a sniff and maybe a curious nibble. She’s only nibbled two, maybe three times, since we’ve had her. She is DEFINITELY a great starter hamster for someone like me who’s not only never tamed a hamster, but is also terrified of handling them too roughly.
Tweak is an absolute DELIGHT. She barely even nibbles anymore and she LOVES to come out of her cage and run around all over my husband. :) It’s adorable. Especially when he goes to put her back in, she’ll turn right around and try to climb back out to him. :) Tweak has definitely proven herself as the Alpha, even though she doesn’t seem to particularly like her sister. She’s hardly ever on the same “floor” as her, and when she is, wants nothing to do with her. Probably because, out of no where, Twitch will walk up to her and start a little tiff, just to roll on her back and squeak like she’s apologizing. So, Tweak spends most of her time up on the third “floor,” sleeping and chewing on her salt lick, which kind of makes me feel like she’s being forced up there and that really isn’t fair to her. :( I’m not sure what to do, and I think my husband is getting to be the same way. We may just end up having to seperate them just so Tweak can live normally.
<33 Zee
p.s. More updates soon, I seem to finally be recovering, so I won’t be stuck in the bed all day. :)
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