Dwarf hamsters everything about purchase, care, nutrition, and behavior
Discusses the varieties, breeding, selection, keeping, and care of these petite rodents.
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| Language: | English |
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Hauppauge, NY :
Barron's Educational Series,
Ã2009.
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| Series: | Complete pet owner's manual.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction to dwarf hamsters
- What is a dwarf hamster?
- Hamster characteristics
- What makes hamsters rodents?
- Their place in nature
- Different species
- Before you buy
- Special considerations
- What to consider
- Which species to select
- Children and dwarf hamsters
- Understanding your dwarf hamster
- Basics
- How-to: handling
- Accomodations
- Housing considerations
- Lighting (photoperiod)
- Exercise
- Dust baths and grooming
- Toys for dwarf hamsters
- Household hazards
- Capturing your hamster
- How-to: cage features
- Feeding your dwarf hamster
- Feeding habits
- What to feed
- How much and how often
- Vitamins and minerals
- Potentially harmful foods
- Nutritional disorders
- Water
- Health
- Keeping hamsters healthy
- If your hamster is sick
- Health problems
- Sensitivity to medications
- Raising dwarf hamsters
- Reproductive cycle
- Pregnancy
- Birth
- Imprinting and taming
- Raising the babies
- Species-specific breeding facts
- Djungarian hamster
- Siberian hamster
- Desert hamster
- Chinese hamster
- Breeding methods
- Hybrids
- Breding for coat colors and textures
- Color genetics
- Djungarian hamster
- Siberian hamster
- Chinese hamster
- Exhibiting dwarf hamsters.
