Talk:Hamster/Archive 1

message: My dwarf hamster's claws are starting to get a bit long-- does anybody know a way to trim them or something?  I'll Google it but there ought to be a section on grooming or something. Robot Chicken 22:24, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Claws

message: I started to extend the "hamsters as pets" section. Due to its size, it may be useful to make it into an extra article in the future. The information is partially taken from http://www.hamsterseiten.de/, a German page (hence no copied wording and no copyright trouble ;) that is worth a visit. --Markus Krötzsch 23:30, 28 Mar 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Easiest way is to go to version before vandalism and re-save. This will over-write the newed, vandalized text. However, if intelligent edits have been done since the vandalism, you'll need to go in and remove the vandalism by editing—GRM 20:58, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Hamsters As Pets

message: Do hampsters carry leprosy? --Ed Poor
Thanks, 62. Can you tell us a bit more about tropical hamsters? --Ed Poor
I don't think hamsters are very easily infected with leprosy: otherwise researchers wouldn't have to resort to using Armadillos. I'd bet, though, that hamsters are potential carriers of bubonic plague   Malcolm Farmer
If so this will be an example of a zoonosis.
Tropical hamsters? Are there such things?61.230.72.211 11:56, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Leprosy

message: Hamsters as pets--OK, I think I have exhausted my knowledge. I always had some for about 15 years, but I hate to tell you how long it has been since I have *not* had any.  Corrections/additions/updates would be appreciated. Elf | Talk 06:13, 23 Mar 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Pet Section

message: About plastic hamster habittrails and balls and such: I and friends used these things for years and years and never had problems with them. My hamsters never peed in the plastic tubes that I remember; they always got off the interstate and used their usual rest areas.  The issues raised about sufficient airflow and about hamsters getting stuck make sense, though, so I modified the "do not use these" wording to "use with common sense and under supervision" wording.  Elf | Talk 19:50, 4 May 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Hamster Toys

message: Added Hamtaro and the Hamster Dance. I'm sure there are a lot more. Haoie 05:34, 3 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: New section, hamsters in popular culture

message: The disambiguation at the top of the article seems inappropriate because it is unlikely that anyone would search for or link to hamster when they want computer mouse instead, and the hamster in programming doesn't doesn't even have an article. A large number of words have different slang definitions or obscure dictionary definitions, but it isn't always necessary to disambiguate them. -- Kjkolb 00:20, 3 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I'd like to refer you to Talk:Vole in hopes that we can avoid a repeat of that here.  I think our final answer seems to have generated peace.  If needed, the same thing can be done for hamster.  --Aranae 00:28, 3 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Disambiguation 

message: There seems to be some misuse of the term "subspecies" in the article when it is actually referring to distinct species.  Either that or it's confusingly written.  69.208.242.205 20:14, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Species and subspecies 

message: I think this article needs to be completely rewritten, for really only one VERY big reason: the article reads like a "How to take care of a hamster" guide, almost invariably. The best example of how this is the fact that the imperative is used at the reader very often (commands) e.g. "they should not...." "do not....". It's not that the information given is a problem, just that the tone and phrasing practically throughout, is inappropriate. For this reason, I think it should be completely rewritten (but using the information from the current version). - Рэдхот 11:36, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Well someone has to, so if you want to, sure. I'm very busy at the moment, so can't. But it doesn't take much skill. Like I said, its just the tone and phrasing. It just needs to be rewritten using the same information, but in a way that is more enyclopædia friendly. - Рэдхот 17:27, 4 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rewrite 

message: The page says that hay is good bedding because it can also be used as food.  Later, it says that hamsters should not be given hay as it can ruin their cheek pouches.
Gazoogleheimer 01:36, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Isn't it obvious? print the article and give it to the hamster to read. Once it's digested the information the paper will make good bedding too! Richerman (talk) 00:48, 30 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hay