Weird hamster behaviour

[Birdsarenotreal]

Sooo I posted here a while back about my seemingly untameable hamster. Little female hybrid dwarf that I bought in January. Still completely un-handleable, but worse now. As soon as she notices I’m in the room she begins scaling the walls in the direction that I’m in. Like I’ll be in the room quietly, watching her from afar just watching her play, and then as soon as she hears me or I move closer she goes just nuts and stops playing.
Also impossible to avoid this because she seems to not sleep. She’s awake in the day about 80% of the time and also for about 80% of the night. She does not rest ever. The room she is in has a good day/night light cycle. When she is awake doing her own thing she does do normal things like forage, but also she chews solid things. Not the wood and chews in her enclosure. Metal and ceramic. The little metal ends of bendy bridges (I tried swapping them, still did it), and the sides of the ceramic bowl that she gets filled with different substrates (I swap it out occasionally) everything is washed and it’s the only stuff she chews really. She also does not have any care for her own safety. If I block off the cage to clean her wheel or something (she will run at me and bite to the point of drawing blood and taking out chunks if I don’t) and she will climb up and flip down like nearly a foot. She also does this without the barricade if she’s worked up about me being there. She will climb right up a little 5” cardboard thingie and flip herself down into her sand bath (on the side of the cage with shallow bedding, so it is quite a drop)
Also note that she behaves exactly the same when put in her playpen for a spot clean or whatever, and it is so hard to get her back in her cage, as instead of entering the “hamster taxi” (even with her favourite treat, millet, inside) she literally just goes straight for my hand and WILL bite badly.
I’m not sure if there is some neurological issues involved or something.
What can I do to help her?
I don’t see a lot of point in taking her to a vet as it would be so stressful to take her (btw coming from someone who spent $600 on vet stuff for another hamster, I don’t try to avoid the vets)
I try to do maintenance when she’s asleep and avoid her as much as possible but it’s really hard considering she’s always awake. Health checks are so hard and stress her out so much so I find myself only doing them when I already have her out for bigger spot cleans.

[ForgetfulBreeze]

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Sooo I posted here a while back about my seemingly untameable hamster. Little female hybrid dwarf that I bought in January. Still completely un-handleable, but worse now. As soon as she notices I’m in the room she begins scaling the walls in the direction that I’m in. Like I’ll be in the room quietly, watching her from afar just watching her play, and then as soon as she hears me or I move closer she goes just nuts and stops playing.
Also impossible to avoid this because she seems to not sleep. She’s awake in the day about 80% of the time and also for about 80% of the night. She does not rest ever. The room she is in has a good day/night light cycle. When she is awake doing her own thing she does do normal things like forage, but also she chews solid things. Not the wood and chews in her enclosure. Metal and ceramic. The little metal ends of bendy bridges (I tried swapping them, still did it), and the sides of the ceramic bowl that she gets filled with different substrates (I swap it out occasionally) everything is washed and it’s the only stuff she chews really. She also does not have any care for her own safety. If I block off the cage to clean her wheel or something (she will run at me and bite to the point of drawing blood and taking out chunks if I don’t) and she will climb up and flip down like nearly a foot. She also does this without the barricade if she’s worked up about me being there. She will climb right up a little 5” cardboard thingie and flip herself down into her sand bath (on the side of the cage with shallow bedding, so it is quite a drop)
Also note that she behaves exactly the same when put in her playpen for a spot clean or whatever, and it is so hard to get her back in her cage, as instead of entering the “hamster taxi” (even with her favourite treat, millet, inside) she literally just goes straight for my hand and WILL bite badly.
I’m not sure if there is some neurological issues involved or something.
What can I do to help her?
I don’t see a lot of point in taking her to a vet as it would be so stressful to take her (btw coming from someone who spent $600 on vet stuff for another hamster, I don’t try to avoid the vets)
I try to do maintenance when she’s asleep and avoid her as much as possible but it’s really hard considering she’s always awake. Health checks are so hard and stress her out so much so I find myself only doing them when I already have her out for bigger spot cleans.

I have had my girl Saturn for about a year and a half to 2 years now. She is the exact same way. Will do anything, I mean anything, to bite me. She tries to attack me when I enter the room through the cage, basically never sleeps, and has all the same symptoms.

Im hoping for another person to respond because I am not the best for this, as I've tried everything but she has been like this for a year and a half of owning her.

It is genetics, im sure of it. Horrible breeding practices that lead to this behavior in their genes.

Im sorry im not the best for solutions, but I just wanted to say that this isn't your fault but for me with my past probably 5 aggressive hamsters, it hasn't gotten better.

[Birdsarenotreal]

Spoiler

Sooo I posted here a while back about my seemingly untameable hamster. Little female hybrid dwarf that I bought in January. Still completely un-handleable, but worse now. As soon as she notices I’m in the room she begins scaling the walls in the direction that I’m in. Like I’ll be in the room quietly, watching her from afar just watching her play, and then as soon as she hears me or I move closer she goes just nuts and stops playing.
Also impossible to avoid this because she seems to not sleep. She’s awake in the day about 80% of the time and also for about 80% of the night. She does not rest ever. The room she is in has a good day/night light cycle. When she is awake doing her own thing she does do normal things like forage, but also she chews solid things. Not the wood and chews in her enclosure. Metal and ceramic. The little metal ends of bendy bridges (I tried swapping them, still did it), and the sides of the ceramic bowl that she gets filled with different substrates (I swap it out occasionally) everything is washed and it’s the only stuff she chews really. She also does not have any care for her own safety. If I block off the cage to clean her wheel or something (she will run at me and bite to the point of drawing blood and taking out chunks if I don’t) and she will climb up and flip down like nearly a foot. She also does this without the barricade if she’s worked up about me being there. She will climb right up a little 5” cardboard thingie and flip herself down into her sand bath (on the side of the cage with shallow bedding, so it is quite a drop)
Also note that she behaves exactly the same when put in her playpen for a spot clean or whatever, and it is so hard to get her back in her cage, as instead of entering the “hamster taxi” (even with her favourite treat, millet, inside) she literally just goes straight for my hand and WILL bite badly.
I’m not sure if there is some neurological issues involved or something.
What can I do to help her?
I don’t see a lot of point in taking her to a vet as it would be so stressful to take her (btw coming from someone who spent $600 on vet stuff for another hamster, I don’t try to avoid the vets)
I try to do maintenance when she’s asleep and avoid her as much as possible but it’s really hard considering she’s always awake. Health checks are so hard and stress her out so much so I find myself only doing them when I already have her out for bigger spot cleans.

I have had my girl Saturn for about a year and a half to 2 years now. She is the exact same way. Will do anything, I mean anything, to bite me. She tries to attack me when I enter the room through the cage, basically never sleeps, and has all the same symptoms.

Im hoping for another person to respond because I am not the best for this, as I've tried everything but she has been like this for a year and a half of owning her.

It is genetics, im sure of it. Horrible breeding practices that lead to this behavior in their genes.

Im sorry im not the best for solutions, but I just wanted to say that this isn't your fault but for me with my past probably 5 aggressive hamsters, it hasn't gotten better.

I just feel like I’m stressing her out just by existing. She lives in my room but maybe I should move her into a different space where she won’t see me as much?
When I bought her the pet store employee mentioned that she bites but I thought maybe it was just because she was in a teeny little enclosure there and hadn’t had much interaction. I’m happy that she’s with me rather than being sold to a parent as a pet for their child at least.

[bella33]

I have had my Syrian for two years, and he has gotten better, but still hides and runs when he hears me around. Hamsters are solitary animals and have only been domesticated for less than 100 years, so it's natural for them not to like human contact. Robos especially are known to be timid, so its nothing you are doing wrong, just most hammies are shy.

[Birdsarenotreal]

I have had my Syrian for two years, and he has gotten better, but still hides and runs when he hears me around. Hamsters are solitary animals and have only been domesticated for less than 100 years, so it's natural for them not to like human contact. Robos especially are known to be timid, so its nothing you are doing wrong, just most hammies are shy.

It’s not any sort of shyness. It’s outright aggression. She doesn’t hide from me. As soon as she sees me she runs to wherever she sees/hears me and tries to get to somewhere where she can bite. When she has the opportunity she bites to draw blood over and over

[bella33]

I have had my Syrian for two years, and he has gotten better, but still hides and runs when he hears me around. Hamsters are solitary animals and have only been domesticated for less than 100 years, so it's natural for them not to like human contact. Robos especially are known to be timid, so its nothing you are doing wrong, just most hammies are shy.

It’s not any sort of shyness. It’s outright aggression. She doesn’t hide from me. As soon as she sees me she runs to wherever she sees/hears me and tries to get to somewhere where she can bite. When she has the opportunity she bites to draw blood over and over

Oh I see. How big is your enclosure?

[Birdsarenotreal]

I have had my Syrian for two years, and he has gotten better, but still hides and runs when he hears me around. Hamsters are solitary animals and have only been domesticated for less than 100 years, so it's natural for them not to like human contact. Robos especially are known to be timid, so its nothing you are doing wrong, just most hammies are shy.

It’s not any sort of shyness. It’s outright aggression. She doesn’t hide from me. As soon as she sees me she runs to wherever she sees/hears me and tries to get to somewhere where she can bite. When she has the opportunity she bites to draw blood over and over

Oh I see. How big is your enclosure?

800 square inches. Doesn’t have to do with the enclosure though, as she behaves exactly the same in or out of it. Acts like a perfectly happy hamster until she sees/hears me.