Baby Poof the Roborovski hamster

[thelittleyorkie]

It has now been a month since we have taken "Baby Poof" home! He was only a couple months old when we took him home from PetSmart and now he is GROWING!! He is eating like a little monster. I fill his food bowl up to the top and about 3-4 days later it's all gone. He likes to stuff his bedding in his bowl when he is done. The first couple of days, he didn't know how to use the wheel, so he was very cautious and timid of it. About a week after he attempted to run on the wheel but didn't know how to stop it so he flew from the wheel a bit. He is now very fond of his wheel. His wheel is his special pooping and throwing up place. His favorite treat is Millet. He is about 50% tamed, he lets me pet his fur and takes food from my hand but still hasn't quite trust me enough to let me pick him up and hold him.

When he grows a bit older, we will change his name from Baby Poof to Poof. After that, Sir Poof. His final name change when he gets much older is Captain Poof.

I will try to post updates about Baby Poof! And a picture/video, tomorrow!

Thanks for reading!

[matese]

if you have a yorkie and a hamster, i would be very careful of that hamster, If you have a yorkie you can have a dead hamster and an empty wheel, and it wouldn't be the yorkies fault, they, as you know were breed to kill rodents, that instinct is still in them. Please be careful.

[KazzyK810]

I can't wait to see video of a Baby Poof!

My daughter got a robo dwarf hamster her freshman year of college (she was lonely) and snuck it in to her dorm. She named her Chevelle. Chevelle was the sweetest lil thing! My daughter would open up the cage door and say "give me kisses" and Chevelle would scurry over to the door and kiss her! She was so tame and friendly.

[thelittleyorkie]

Originally Posted by matese

if you have a yorkie and a hamster, i would be very careful of that hamster, If you have a yorkie you can have a dead hamster and an empty wheel, and it wouldn't be the yorkies fault, they, as you know were breed to kill rodents, that instinct is still in them. Please be careful.

I don't have a yorkie yet.

When we do, we will put B.P. in a closed room which is completely *off-limits* to the yorkie.

[matese]

Good plan, just be careful please. I never heard of a Robo hamster, so I googled it, they are really cute. I use to have hamsters and had several cages with inter connecting tubes so the could get from one cage to another, I had 4 hamsters, I loved when one would get on the wheel and go so fast that it would get thrown out of the wheel, so funny and cute. I love all the names you have selected. Enjoy your lil baby poof, they are a lot of fun.

[LunaMommy]

We have a yorkie and a hamster. The hamster is VERY tame and although we don't let her out very often without being in her ball our yorkie is terrified of her. The yorkie runs and hides from her. When she is in her ball rolling around the house the yorkie just barks at the ball and runs off. Of course we keep a very close eye on both but it is kinda funny to watch it all play out.

[sandy simpson]

I am a yorkie lover and a bird lover. I have zebra finches, a yellow canary, a red belly parrot and 2 cockatiels. When those cockatiels fly down off their cage my 2 yorkies go crazy. I have to really watch them when the cockatiels hang outside their cage. Yorkies are fearless and would go after these birds and hamsters. Mine would!

[Yorkiemom1]

Three of my Yorkies live to hunt birds!! They go nuts, running sparrows and doves all over the back yard.....if I say, "Oooohhhh, I see a BIRD, these three girls go nuts! One of them even goes nuts over the feather duster, which she thinks is a bird!!!

[matese]

Originally Posted by LunaMommy

We have a yorkie and a hamster. The hamster is VERY tame and although we don't let her out very often without being in her ball our yorkie is terrified of her. The yorkie runs and hides from her. When she is in her ball rolling around the house the yorkie just barks at the ball and runs off. Of course we keep a very close eye on both but it is kinda funny to watch it all play out.

That is soooo funny lol. Many years ago when I had just 2 yorkies, my niece had gotten a ferret, where ever she went, her ferret went with her. So one day she calls, is it ok to come with the ferret, I tell her I don't think it's a good idea with these yorkies being breed to hunt vermin. Well she came anyway. My older baby had no interest, my 2 y/o was amazing, my niece took the ferret out and put it on my bed, then took my 2 y/o and put her on the bed, all against my better judgement. Well the ferret ran be hind my bed pillows, my pup went to where the ferret entered, the ferret came out at the other end, lol, then the game of peek a boo began with the ferret, my girls were very gentle girls, but I still didn't trust them. My 2 y/o had a blast with this ferret playing peek a boo, I was amazed, but would not recommend anyone to try this.

Originally Posted by sandy simpson

I am a yorkie lover and a bird lover. I have zebra finches, a yellow canary, a red belly parrot and 2 cockatiels. When those cockatiels fly down off their cage my 2 yorkies go crazy. I have to really watch them when the cockatiels hang outside their cage. Yorkies are fearless and would go after these birds and hamsters. Mine would!

I was a bird person until I got my first yorkie. I had a set of cockatiels and a dwarf Bee Bee parrot. I had one cage on a table and another across the room on the wall, all birds had their wings clipped, before the yorkie came into my life I would let the birds out, not at the same time, the cockatiels didn't like the Bee Bee parrot, they would fight, so they came out for an hour, then the Bee Bee would come out. That all stopped when I got my first yorkie. That yorkie would sit under the cage on the wall salivating over the birds, when they would flutter their wings, the dog would go ballistic. I believe if that yorkie would have gotten one of the birds it would have killed it, so no more birds for me, yorkies only.

[chickensmith]

We keep my mother in laws parakeet...so far Winnie has shown no interest thank goodness.