Thread: why is one hamster trying to eat

the other one????? we have 3 robo dwarf hamsters and Cutie keeps trying to eat the other one. to the point now that i dont think Peaches will make it thru the night.

Hmmm, that's odd. Male, female?

I've always heard that hamsters were solitary creatures and do best when not kept in the same cage.

Not saying that they can't get along. But if they aren't, they will fight to the death.

I'd separate them asap.

the store had told us that they had to be kept in same sex pairs, that dwarf hamsters will die of lonelyness. but maybe since i put 3 in there, Cutie decided she liked Spiderman better than Peaches.

anyhow, we separated Peaches into another cage to try to heal her but she died last night. I swear no one else cared and i bawled for a **** hour. and she wasnt even MY hamster (i dont believe in having pets) arg.

yikes, sorry to say but the pet store was wrong. Where I work, we won't sell 2 hamsters to a cage together and we constantly have to keep some in separate cages to minimize the fighting.

everything we have read online says the same thing, they are very social and have to be with at least one other hamster


"Roborovskis are, however, extremely social and affectionate with each other, and when housed together from an early age, sleep in one place and indeed eat, play, etc. together.'

Yeah, mine always liked each other, I thought it was only two males that couldn't be together or something?

Sorry she died, Bran