### animal | vertebrate | mammal | rodent:

Hamster
* ALL hamsters reproduce very quickly.
* All hamsters are alert, active, and eating and drinking normally
  - creatures who like to eat carrots
* All hamsters have short legs
  - tails for their small body
* Many hamsters only blink one eye at a time.
* Most hamsters also have a wheel to run on for exercise
  - are active during the early to late evening and throughout the night
* Most hamsters are descended from female hamsters
  - golden hamsters
  - single female wild golden hamsters
  - strictly solitary
* Most hamsters carry babies
  - protozoans
  - depend on diets
  - develop growth
  - dont live long
  - eat food
  - give birth to hamsters
* Most hamsters has-part eyes
  - skin
  - teeth
* Most hamsters have diets
  - front feet
  - glands
  - healthy diets
  - life
  - metabolism
  - nasal discharge
  - noses
  - runny noses
  - scent glands
  - vegetarian diets
  - wet tails
  - hide in burrows
  - like to eat mealworms
  - live for years
* Most hamsters live in burrows
  - lose energy
  - make urine
  - move food
* Most hamsters possess chromosomes
  - hair
  - offspring
  - reach adulthood
* Most hamsters require food
  - water
  - sell as pets
  - sleep all day
  - stand on paws
  - survive in habitats
  - thrive in cages
* Most hamsters use feet
  - walk on paws
* Some hamsters are allergic to certain types of bedding
  - member of families
  - sure to relish finely chewed pieces of curtain to line their nests
  - very social, while others are loners
* Some hamsters can have disorder
  - muscle disorder
  - come from steppes
* Some hamsters develop conditions
  - infection
  - intestinal infection
  - pockets
  - drink regular water, and some drink water to which a medicine has been added
* Some hamsters eat grain
  - insects
  - meat
  - several different meat
* Some hamsters feed cholesterol diets
  - fat diets
  - high fat diets
* Some hamsters have allergies
  - bacterial infection
  - breeds
  - head injuries
  - serious allergies
  - viruses
  - infect animals
* Some hamsters infect with equine viruses
  - kill hamsters
  - lose appetite
  - love vegetables
  - only have teeth
* Some hamsters possess diets
  - produce offspring
* Some hamsters reach maturity
  - puberty
  - respond to sugar
* Some hamsters suffer heart problems
  - liver damage.
  * Fluffy bedding is dangerous for hamsters. Plain toilet paper is also a cheap, safe option, so is straw. Hamsters eat mostly hamster food sold at a pet shop, but they also eat almost any vegetables and fruits in very tiny portions. Hamsters store food in the sides of their mouths. They need a water bottle with fresh water to drink from, and something to chew on to trim their teeth. Hamster teeth grow constantly. If they do not like chewing you will have to cut their top teeth. Toilet paper rolls and pieces of cardboard are not advised, as the hamster may choke or try to eat it. Most hamsters also have a wheel to run on for exercise.
  * store food in the sides of their mouths. They need a water bottle with fresh water to drink from, and something to chew on to trim their teeth. Hamster teeth grow constantly. If they do not like chewing you will have to cut their top teeth. Toilet paper rolls and pieces of cardboard are not advised, as the hamster may choke or try to eat it. Most hamsters also have a wheel to run on for exercise. Some people get other kinds of exercise equipment for their hamsters, like an empty ball that the hamster can roll around the floor or a long network of tubes with air holes for it to crawl through. When using the hamster ball, let the hamster roll in it for 15 to 20 minutes. If they roll too long, they might get too tired and overheat. When letting your hamster out always keep an eye on it. Hamsters may look slow, but are truly very fast
* also enjoy playing in tunnels and caves
  - like grass, clover and dandelions
  - make a good pets
* appear to be highly susceptible to infection, with high morbidity and mortality.
* are Nocturnal.
* are a favorite among pet owners
  - good beginner pet because they are fairly easy to care for
  - active at night
  - adapted for living in deserts and fertile lowland steppic grasslands
  - aggressive species and they only meet at the time of mating
* are also cool
  - often prone to cheek abscesses
  - useful for decorating packages
  - born to run
* are capable of burrows
  - having multiple litters
  - characterized by their short tails, furry ears, stocky legs, and wide feet
  - clever and curious companion animals that make great pets for just about any household
  - crepuscular or nocturnal
  - delicate, skittish and very squirmy when touched
  - difficult to catch once they get away and hide
  - docile animals if they are treated kindly and given a comfortable cage
  - easy to care for and enjoy attention
  - fairly neat in their bathroom habits if their enclosure is regularly cleaned
  - fat and fuzzy
  - favorites with children - but they can bite and their bites can draw blood
  - friendly and easily tamed
* are great little creatures to have as pets
  - pets and can easily become good friends over time
  - hardy pets requiring few visits to the vet
  - like squirrels in that they store their food
  - mammals
  - native to the Middle East
* are natural hoarders and are notorious for stockpiling their food
  - naturally nocturnal
* are nocturnal animals, so it's best to start in the early evening
  - which means they are active at night
  - but do have short periods of activity in the day
  - by nature
  - creatures, which means that they like to sleep all day
  - so think carefully before placing their cages
  - omnivores but lean more to a vegetarian diet
  - omnivores, meaning they can eat and digest a wide variety of food types
  - omnivorous, which means they eat both vegetables and meat
* are popular pets both at home and in school classrooms because they are easy to care for
  - for children
* are primarily herbivorous and they feed on vegetable and plants matter
  - nocturnal species
  - quite shy creatures - sleeping mostly during the day
  - rodents and resemble tiny bears
  - seasonal breeders
  - slothful and live by the labor of others
* are small animals which are kept as pets
* are small, soft animals with a fair temperament
  - they are tailless, rodents with big cheeks
* are solitary animals
  - but tend to be nocturnal
  - territorial animals
  - tough, robust animals
  - unaffected by a dose of dioxin that is lethal to a guinea pig
  - unusual in the caged pet group in that they can catch colds from people
* are very active
  - flexible, but their bones are somewhat fragile
* are very fond of eating crickets
  - fruits and vegetables and other plants matter
  - healthy animals
  - much smaller than the smallest humans are
  - noctural and spend most of the day in a very deep sleep
  - vulnerable to an unusually large number and variety of benign cancers
* attract attention.
* avoid broken legs and strangulations.
* become fertile at different ages depending on their species.
* bite only when they are frightened
  - people either because they are scared or because their owner's hand smells like food
* can also catch a cold if the cage is exposed to draughts or are bathed
  - be great pets
  - chew through cardboard quickly
  - cry
  - develop diabetes
  - eat small slices of lettuce
  - get respiratory infections that can lead to pneumonia
  - have small bits of lettuce, carrots, apples, broccoli, and tomatoes
  - live to be three to four years old
  - make quite messy pets
  - multiply
  - start breeding as early as two months of age
  - t see very well, and they aren t the most agile or sure-footed creatures
* clean themselves.
* conserve energy during winter by hibernating and reducing their body temperatures.
* do have a propensity to escape
  - scent glands on their flanks which can be dark and sometimes alarm owners
  - tails but it is extremely short
  - very well in solid bottom cages with deep bedding and ample nesting material
* drink water through bottles with a metal dispenser.
  - grains, seeds, grasses, fruit, roots, stems, and small animals like worms and insects
  - lots of things
* enjoy having fun.
* exhibit a great variability of response to administration of parenteral anesthesics.
* feel touch.
* fill their cheek pouches with air before taking the plunge.
* find places.
* has-part backs
* have a loose skin and can easily slip out of inexperienced hands
  - low zoonotic potential
  - pretty short life span, so they mature very quickly
  - relatively short life span
  - babies also
  - cases
  - cheek pouchs
  - cheekpouches which they use to collect food
  - long tails, gerbils have short ones
  - one of the quickest reproductive rates in the animal kingdom
  - plenty
* have serious cases
  - short life spans
  - teeth and they can bite
  - very poor eyesight
* hump people.
  - breasts
  - heads
  - nuclei
  - sterna
* like to chew
  - eat seeds, grains, nuts, cracked corn, fruits and vegetables
  - eat, sleep, and run their wheel
  - hoard or store food in their cheek pouches
  - run on their wheels at night
  - life much quicker than humans
* love attention
  - the cardboard tubes found inside rolls of toilet paper and paper towels
* love to chew
  - curl up in a coconut shell
  - dig, burrow, and chew
  - eat crickets
  - shred and hide in cardboard tubes from toilet paper or paper towel rolls
* make excellent pets for young and old alike
* need diets
  - fluid
  - pain
  - proteins
  - special diets
* pull the cotton apart, often stuffing it into their cheeks.
* really hate cold, draughts and damp.
* receive water.
* require a quiet place during the day, and a place where they can be noisy in the evening
  - weekly cage cleaning or sometimes twice a week and no grooming
  - only minimal care
  - veterinary care to ensure they stay healthy and live as long as possible
* run on their wheels at the same time every day.
* seem to especially enjoy exercise wheels and other activities.
* should have diets
  - low sugar diets
* sleep all day long, and are up all night chewing and running in their wheel.
* suffer from their own prion disease, called scrapie, to which mice are completely immune.
* tend to be active at night and sleep during the day.
* tend to have relatively short life spans when compared with other species
  - lifespans when compared to other species
  - solid-bottom cages with deep bedding and ample nesting material
* typically live one to two years, but can live up to three years in captivity.
  - their whiskers ,or vibrissae, to aid detection of objects to explore their environment
* usually continues as normal, eating but probably drinking more to avoid dehydration.
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  * All hamsters have short legs. Because of this, their legs have small bones which make them easier to break or fracture. Obese hamsters are more likely to have problems with their legs.