Pudding Hamster Behavior and How to Care for Them
📝 Summary
Pudding hamsters are gentle but timid — the easiest breed to bully — and are food-loving, sleepy, and low-energy, which is why most stay plump. Caring for them means avoiding human food, direct sun, and water baths, keeping them solo or same-sex, and following rules on diet, bedding, and clean drinking water.
1 Pudding Hamster Traits and Care Guidelines
1. Pudding hamster behavior
1. Pudding hamsters are gentle and quite timid; they rarely attack other hamsters and are the easiest of all breeds to be bullied. When attacked they don’t fight back — they just squeal in fear — though if truly cornered, who knows.
2. Pudding hamsters are a bit neurotic and not easy to bond with; owners who want to get close to them must put in extra effort.
3. Among dwarf (three-lined) hamsters, puddings are the least active: they love eating and sleeping, and even a wheel won’t spark their exercise instinct. Apart from meals they mostly lie down, at most strolling around the cage now and then. That’s why most puddings are chubby, and owners should make them exercise — for example, roll them in a hamster ball for half an hour or more each day. If a hamster channeled its food-grabbing energy into exercise, it would be very healthy.
2. Don’ts and precautions for keeping pudding hamsters
1. Never feed a pudding hamster human food. Human food is high in salt and contains seasonings and additives that burden their bodies, so for their health, strictly manage their diet.
2. Never expose hamsters to direct sunlight. They fear heat greatly, so in hot summer take cooling measures to prevent heatstroke.
3. Never wash a hamster with water; clean it with bath sand.
4. Avoid housing pudding hamsters with other hamsters. Also, unless you plan to breed, never keep males and females together — their reproductive capacity will astonish you.
6. Never feed feed of unknown origin; if food is infested or moldy, throw it away and don’t use it.
7. Never give hamsters raw tap water; always provide boiled and cooled water.
8. Never give chopsticks or popsicle sticks for chewing; buy hamster-specific chew toys.
9. Never use newspaper or tissue as cage bedding; newspaper has ink and tissue contains bleach, both harmful to hamster health.
10. The habitat must not be too cramped; it should fit a wheel, water bottle, food bowl, and nest.
11. Never feed other pets’ food; use hamster-specific grain mixes.
12. Don’t overfeed sunflower seeds; they can’t be a staple, only an occasional snack in small amounts.
13. Always ensure the hamster has water and keep it clean; change the water at least once a week.
This concludes our overview of pudding hamster behavior and care tips; we hope it helps you understand your pudding hamster better.
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