Nutritional Advice

We advise pelleted complete foods such as Oxbow or Mazuri diets.

Pet shops often sell, and owners often buy mixtures of seeds, nuts and pellets. To us humans these look so much more delicious and interesting than the boring pellets. The problem with these mixtures is that your hamster does not understand that too many high fat sunflower seeds and nuts are bad, and he will eat all of these first. The diet will then be unbalanced, low in vitamins and unhealthy.

We recommend that you supplement your pet’s diet with fresh foods every day.

Idealy 3-5 different fresh vegetables and fruits such as spinach, lettuce, choi sum, broccoli, pumpkin, tomato, carrots, corn, strawberry, blueberry, grapes and apples.

Just give a little piece of each one! (3-5 mm for a dwarf hamster, 1- 1.5  cm for a golden hamster). Be sure to clean up any leftover fresh food before it spoils. Never give your pet raw kidney beans, avocado, onions, raw potato, rhubarb, chocolate, candy or other junk foods.

Fresh, clean water should be available at all times.

It is best to use a sipper water bottle, which should be changed daily.