Hi everyone,

I don't post very often but felt I ought to put this out there.

I went with a friend to Royston Animal Welfare.. not actually based in Royston, the small animals lady is at Cubley near Penistone. Which may seem a long way to go, but actually it's not That far and a straight forward drive once your on the Stocksbridge bypass.

I took 2 russian dwarf hamsters and my friend rehomed 4 rats. But there are sooooo many more looking for homes. Beryl is especially over run with the dwarf hamsters, but has gerbils, degus, rabbits and guinea pigs. There are also cats and dogs, but not kept with Beryl you'd need to email, the address is on the website below.

These hamsters prefer to live in pairs or more if you have the space. If there's anyone out there who can offer a home for them, as pets, or even a school who's looking for classroom pets. Please look at

http://www.animalraw.freeserve.co.uk/index.htm or phone Beryl 01226 765884

It cost me a £5 donation for a pair.

Thanks for reading.
Keryn

Mmmm. When I was in Grammar School I was in charge of the Gerbils kept in Biology. (Surprising how much this can be a stigma if you are too busy nursing an ill Gerbil back to health to take part in 'Rugby extra' at lunch time).

Anyway.. I survived the boy's own torment and gave the Gerbil another 6 weeks!

(I might call and see if I could help)...

Originally posted by Deavon
Mmmm. When I was in Grammar School I was in charge of the Gerbils kept in Biology. (Surprising how much this can be a stigma if you are too busy nursing an ill Gerbil back to health to take part in 'Rugby extra' at lunch time).

Anyway.. I survived the boy's own torment and gave the Gerbil another 6 weeks!

(I might call and see if I could help)...

Thankyou for thinking about it. There are photos of the gerbils in the animals to adopt section on the website.

I never had the classroom pet experience, but I didn't need it. My teenage years were spent living in a dog rescue along with 9 hamsters, a fishtank and a cat LOL

Years ago we had a very nasty experience with Russian Hamsters. We too took the advice that they prefered to live in pairs and bought two for the children. I distinctly remember asking the pet shop assistant to check they were both the same sex. As you can probably guess within a couple of months we were over run with the little so-and-so's. By the time their anatomical parts were big enough to decipher their sex it was too late, they'd already gone and done it!:heyhey:

A warning:-

These are Russian Dwarves!! not to be confused with syrian (larger) hamsters.

Dwarf hamsters *can* usually live socially, in pairs, (making sure that they are not of mixed sex!!! lol)

SYRIAN hamsters are not social animals at all. They will fight to the death, if placed together. And it isn't a pretty sight.

Please do not make the mistake of putting two Syrian hammies together.

Here endeth the public information broadcast! lol

PT

russian hamsters are nice but evil, dont keep them in groups there not like roboroskis there more like syrians one of mine killed all the other 3 hamsters he was with from the same litter and same sex

Originally posted by cazj
Years ago we had a very nasty experience with Russian Hamsters. We too took the advice that they prefered to live in pairs and bought two for the children. I distinctly remember asking the pet shop assistant to check they were both the same sex. As you can probably guess within a couple of months we were over run with the little so-and-so's. By the time their anatomical parts were big enough to decipher their sex it was too late, they'd already gone and done it!:heyhey:

This is a risk of course, the little blighters are so tiny, sexing them can be difficult. I picked up several before being sure i'd gotten 2 the same, but i'll not be 100% I got it right until a month has passed.

I was told that if there do end up being the stampede of little baby hamsters feet, the hamsters can be returned to the rescue.

Originally posted by Plain Talker
A warning:-

These are Russian Dwarves!! not to be confused with syrian (larger) hamsters.

Dwarf hamsters *can* usually live socially, in pairs, (making sure that they are not of mixed sex!!! lol)

SYRIAN hamsters are not social animals at all. They will fight to the death, if placed together. And it isn't a pretty sight.

Please do not make the mistake of putting two Syrian hammies together.

Here endeth the public information broadcast! lol

PT

Erm, thanks. I did think i'd made it clear that these were russian hamsters though lol I also have a syrian hamster and all this is common knowledge to me so maybe didn't make the difference as obvious as I could.