Are hamsters friendly?

Yes they are very friendly my best friend used to own two but the other one escaped so now its alone. The most friendly is the teddy bear hamster. If you are considering it as a pet I suggest that you research about them first so that they would live for a really long time. You have to know how to pick one from the store, how to choose a cage, how to take care of them and what are the toys most suitable for them. My best friend and I researched a lot before she got one since I help her take care of them and now her hamster has really grown a lot.

Hamsters are not friendly. They don't recognize their owners and they even bite their owners. They can't be pet as dogs. I experenced owning s hamster, I was bitten by it.

i have 20 hamster.haif of it are roboski and the others are winter. they are so friendly but sometime it bite if it is angry when we bit it. we need to be gentle and with love. hamster sometime run around. they are sometime naugthy and sometime nice. i love hamsters!!!!!!!! its so cute and nice.its so fluffy and adorable eyes and gigantic eyes. big eyes and big stomach.

If it's your first time, I think getting a male hamster would be better. Males, in general, are much more calmer and not so aggresive as females. That means you won't get bitten often. However, male hamsters are much more smellier than female hamsters, so you need to bathe the males more often. When I say bathe I meant place them in a pail of bathing sand, not splashing water at it. There are many different types of hamsters, and I've listed the Syrian hamster description. I also got a link there for you to check out other types of hamsters. Syrians : Most common type of hamster. Life span = 2.5 to 3 years. Cannot be housed together, each syrian hamster must live alone. If they are placed together, after 8 weeks - 10 weeks, severe fighting will occur and resulting in the weaker hamster dying. Go to this website to find out more about the different types of hamsters : http://www.angelfire.com/wv2/woodview_hamstery/types.html Note : If you have never handled hamsters before, I don't encourage you to buy the Roborovski hamsters. They are very tiny, and they run very fast, making them difficult to handle. Heres a hamster guide : http://www.gomestic.com/Pets/Hamster-Care.183809 Hope it helped!

Yes they are friendly but it takes some time to make them close to you.For the first time,a new hamster hamster will bite your hand when you want to hold it but after a week when they close to you they will never bite your hand again.That's happen to me before it.

Actually hamster is friendly but not too much like a dogs who's loyal and very showy to her boss. Hamster has an attitude like a rat who wants to go in a place where they can hide. Once they comes out in the cage no one knows if it will come back. The goodness in the hamster is they are so cute whenever they are playing in the wheels, climbing in the cage and making exercise. They are responsible in organizing their cage and stocking of foods. Some of the hamster are not handy that's why if you will buy you should choose the one that's not sensitive like me I have a bear hamster.

My daughter found one under The Chriatmas tree from Santa this past Christmas. It is russian hamster she named "Baby". I much prefer a hamster to rats or mice. She has a very sweet temperament, likes to be out with my daughter or with me visiting and playing. For some reason she loves to run around on my keyboard, while I am working, which is kind of funny. My daughter really loves her, talks to her and carries her around the house with her.

If you want to judge if a hamster is friendly or not, it depends on what you think. Some owners think a hamster is fery hard to take care of because sometimeswhen the hamster spins its wheel, the sweeky noise comming from the wheel will be quite anoying. I feel that a hamster is cute, but if it comes to cleaning its home, it will be a big challenge. Because a hamster's home can be quite stinky.

I do some volunteer work with a rodent rescue group and everyone I've talked with has said that hamsters are the least friendly rodents. Hamsters definitely bite more than any other rodent I've worked with! I absolutely love hamsters, but if you're looking for a particularly "friendly" pet- then maybe hamsters aren't the way to go. If you don't mind getting bitten however, hamsters can make great pets! My advice would be to seriously research and look into getting one as a pet before buying one. Also, I would suggest adopting one from a rescue group instead of buying one from a pet store. Hamsters or other small animals sold in pet stores haven't been socialized at all. So when you buy one, it is not going to be used to being handled at all! When you adopt through a rescue group, the animal you're getting has been properly socialized by the foster owner, and therefore will be a much friendlier pet! Also, when you chose to adopt from a rescue, you get a much more personalized experience. The person you're getting the animal from can tell you all about the specific traits, characteristics, personality and needs of your pet. A pet store can't do that. To find local hamsters and other small animals available for adoption in your area, you can search http://www.petfinder.com

I have always loved hamsters! When I was a kid, I almost always had one. They usually lived 2-3 years despite the fact that my family didn't know too much about them in terms of giving them lots of interesting things and fresh food and stuff. Now we have a hamster again for my 4-yr old daughter. He is a teddybear hamster and VERY friendly. I heard recently that males are more friendly than females. We also got him as a baby, and this is definitely the way to go. That way you can teach the baby hamster to trust you. Only one time did he bite me - very early on and it was more of a cautious nibble to see if I was tasty. I wasn't, so he never did it again! He never bit my daughter. Hamsters are fun, but it's true that you do have to allow for the fact that they're only awake in the evening. Works great for us - we have hamster time right before bed with my daughter - if he's not awake already I gently rouse him and then I often let him run around the living room in his exercise ball while she's sleeping. SOOOOoooooo... in closing, I say go for it! They're not cuddly like cats, but they are fun and sweet. And if you end up not really bonding the hamster will do quite fine on his own as long as you keep giving fresh food and water and clean the cage once a week. Not too much risk involved!

They can be friendly if you gently stroke and handle them from a very early age. When fully-grown, they have got very sharp teeth though and can give a nasty bite...they don't mean to harm, that's just a hamster being a hamster. To cut down the risk of getting bitten, make sure they have plenty of other stuff to chew on like brazil nuts with their shells still on. Hamsters make lovely pets...they are easy to look after, acrobatic, and amusing. Make sure your hamster has plenty of things to do to prevent boredom, like things to climb on, tunnels to explore, toys to play with....even a little swing to swing on... and hard things to chew on. I'm sure you'll love your little hamster.

Did you get a hamster yet? I have had all different sorts of rodent pets and the hamster is not my favorite. I had several hamsters and they are very cute, but not that friendly IMHO. They are stubbornly nocturnal and usually won't adapt to your schedule. They aren't very exciting when they sleep all day buried in their bedding. They are also more likely to bite than other small rodents. This isn't just opinion. I've read it in a book about rodents and I know from experience. I was bitten several times by my hamsters, but never by pet mice, and by a pet rat only when she was very pregnant with 10 babies. In my opinion, mice are too small and fast; gerbils are too hyper and sort of ugly; hamsters are cute but grumpy; guinea pigs are sweet but messy and eat a lot; rabbits are very messy and can be destructive; but RATS are smart, social, agile, and flexible. Rats are the best small rodent. They can learn your routine, they can learn tricks, they are unlikely to bite unless hurt or sick, they are large enough to be handled easily and not lost, but are small enough to keep in a small space and not make a huge mess. We have two rat boys now and they are great. I give each a raisin for "dessert" each night and they grab it with their little hands and eat it up with enthusiasm. They come up to the front of the cage and put their noses out when I come in the room. They will ride on a shoulder and like to be scratched behind the ears. That's another thing wrong with hamsters - they have extremely poor vision and poor balance and can fall easily. You can't play with them much.

It is totally a tame animal. But it has bitten me once, still cant find why. Hamster is still way better than dog and cat.

Hamster are friendly, depends on what kind of hamster do you want to keep as a pet, dwarfster like campbel are a little bit naughty, they like to taste your finger with their teeth, just a little bit bite, not painful, but don't try to finger them at their mouth, be-coz they smell from what you eat with your finger and thinks that it is food for them hehe, but dun't worry hamster are friendly, i know someone who can train their hamster friendly with his guinea pigs too and with other kinds of hamster (roborovski with syrian comes together and amazingly they not attacked each other even the roborovsky is on the top of the syrian just like a cowboy) hehehe

It all depends on how the hamster was raised. When I had hamsters, several years ago the first ones I bought from the store weren't as friendly as I would like because the store handled them with gloves and were afraid of them so they didn't socialize them. But the hamster babies I raised were super friendly, cause I played with them from the time that they could be handled until I sold them to a local pet store. Teddy Bear Hamsters are the big and furry type and they usually are pretty friendly. I had drawf hamsters cause they were just soo cute! I had all the colors brown, albino and even a new silver color that was being imported from England at the time. My suggestion is to read or research a little about hamsters first, but here are some tips. I would get a large aquarium for a cage. The smell will be less and they are less likely to escape out of an aquarium (Hamsters are smart little buggers you will be amazed at what they can escape from). Avoid the grass hut things with the metal wire--one of my hamsters got a foot stuck in one of those and became footless--didn't seem to hinder him much. Feed them fresh food. If you have a local pet store and they have a fresh hamster mix get that. The packaged stuff from chains isn't as good for them. Also feed them fresh vegetables, they love orange slices (give as rare treat), peanuts, potato peelings, just about any nut or vegetable matter. Hamsters normally have a life span of 1 year or less--all my hamsters lived 2-3 years because we feed them fresh food. Hamsters can be a great pet. I loved the ones that I had.

Here's a link that might be helpful in your research http://allaboutteddybearhamsters.blogspot.com/