Bacchus Residents

Hello again, readers, Today we wanted to quickly introduce two hybrid dwarf hamsters (Winter White/ Campbell Russian hybrid) - Arkid and Darkspark. They were being given away as an unwanted cohabiting pair. We decided to intervene as it is possible for duos to fight. If dwarf hamsters begin fighting, it is often necessary to separate them. When we collected them, they started fighting within the time it took to get from their previous owner's front door to inside of our car. Thankfully, we came prepared; we packed an additional pet carrier and separated them instantly. Once we arrived home, Arkid appeared to have come off the worst. He had numerous bite wounds to his back end - none needed medical attention. Darkspark was thankfully entirely healthy. The pair were unsocialized, so we had to work on their confidence.  Currently, as things stand, both hamsters have mellowed considerably. They will both bite when grabbed, so they get picked up via a toy (i.e tube, house) ...

Hello again, readers We had noticed that our blog was consisting of mostly medical themes recently. Though we seem to be at the vets more often than we would obviously like, we do 90% of our work at home. Day to day we care for our animals - our work is never finished - there is always something that can be done. With that in mind, we thought we would do a write up about one of our previous resident Hybrid Dwarf Hamsters - Molly. Molly was taken in as a pregnant dwarf hamster by Hamster Haven (rescue) many years ago. She had successfully birthed a healthy litter of pups and did a wonderful job raising them. We decided to adopt her along with her son, Tuc. All of her pups were snapped up, but Molly herself had no interest. We'd just about started dipping our toe in independent rescuing at this point, but we also still adopted animals as pets too. When Molly arrived home, we quickly fell in love with her character. She was extremely energetic and social - you couldn't walk ...

Hello again, readers, Today we wanted to write a post about a previous resident hybrid dwarf hamster - Baggins. This will be the first of multiple posts like this (until we run out of write-ups, anyway) about some of our residents who're no longer with us. We recently wrote an explanation on why we're doing posts like this. Baggins was only with us for a short amount of time, it's always deeply upsetting when that happens. We always hope our residents will be with us for a long very time, but sadly with most smaller furries, that rarely happens. When he arrived, we couldn't be certain of his age. We would've estimated him to have been over 1 years old, but how much older was never really clear to us. In his previous home, Baggins had been left with no enrichment or interaction, he was barely within the correct weight (borderline underweight), and had been living with an infected scent gland for some time. As soon as Baggins had space to run, toys to play wit...

Hello again, readers, Today we wanted to do a short but sweet post about one of our new arrivals - Colin. Colin was being given away as an elderly hyrbid dwarf hamster. So, we thought we would offer him the retirement home he deserves. Colin is in full health. We think he likes it here! You can keep up with Colin on our Instagram .