sphynx

thanks!

I used to just scoop them up kind of quick-like so they didn't have time to get too freaked out, and then hold them in my open palms. I don't know what kind of cage you have tho, so maybe you can't

if you try to feed the lil critter treets and hold it daily it will tame nicely, but I'm not sure a week is necessarily long enough...

Thst is both cool and the suck about your couch. You could offer him a polaroid in a frame instead! Be sure two scrawl "the couch" with crayon at th bottom!

Can we see pics?

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I used to raise the Russian dwarf hampsters, and they will do fairly well with another in the cage provided that the cage is big enough, and that they are male and female or male and male, the females just don't get along. This is not to say that all of them will tollerate a cage mate, but they do fair much better than the teddybear ones. If you get two from the same litter, they will more than likely be ok together, because they are used to each other. But Hampsters in general are fairly solitary, so keeping one by itself, won't do it any harm. I like those lil guys.

I like rats too, if get a young one, and it will not only tame easily, they become quite attached to you. Much more so than any hampster or mouse would. They do smell a bit more than hampsters, but not nearly as much as mice. And they're fairly smart too. I used to teach mine tricks! Well "tricks" at anyrate.

I would avoid mice. They never get terrribly friendly, are always prone to biting, and smell much much worse than hampsters. I also never had any luck with teddybear hampsters. I think if you get them young they're better, but every one of the ones I had bit me.

Got any lithium..........no, no, how about some tranquilizers.

good luck on your photoset.

the best of luck to you