Help You Know to How to Give Your Hamster a Sand Bath
The main raw material of hamster bath sand is natural silica sand. Advantages are high-temperature sterilization, keep the environment dry and faint scent; Enhance exercise during bathing to ensure hamster health; Very little powder to avoid damage to hamster’s respiratory system and eyes; Keeping hamsters dry prevents hair loss and various skin conditions.
Hamsters used to live in arid plains and desert areas, and their hair is relatively dense and soft, generally need to use hamster special bath sand for its bath, but many owners don’t know how to use or teach hamster bath sand. Here are a few tips to ease your way through these problems.
1. Hamsters eat bath sand
Some owners will see the hamster mouth covered with sand, presumably, the hamster ate bath sand.
The fact that you see hamsters eating bath sand may be an illusion. Many people start to raise hamsters when they always see it in that “eat bath sand” get a mouth full of bath sand. In fact, hamsters are very picky eating animals, bath sand into the mouth, they will not like to eat it! Hamsters that eat bath sand first end up in cheek pouches and spit it out when they find it inedible.
If your hamster is new to bath sand, because the hamster curiosity is strong, will try it, even if the hamster accidentally eats bath sand, don’t worry. Because bath sand is not toxic. And even if eat also won’t digest, because bath sand is made of silicon grain, silicon sand is not general sand, it’s very slippery, and inside still added lubricate powder, can come out along bowel path.
2. Hamsters can’t be washed with water
It is best not to wash hamsters with water. Hamsters are naturally afraid of water, and washing can cause colds, wet tails and even drowning, so don’t do this for the sake of your hamster’s health. In addition, some people will use cat litter instead of bath sand to reduce the cost, which is a bad idea. If you’re bathing your hamster with cat litter, but for hamsters, the particles are too big to do anything but get rid of the dirt on the hamster, not really get rid of the bacteria.
3. Can you do it yourself
A hamster owner might ask, “do you have to buy bathing sand? Can’t you do it yourself?” In fact, bath sand is not expensive, and one bag can be used for a long time; If you make, the raw material is not easy to choose, you can’t sterilize, maybe counterproductive!
4. Reasons why hamsters refuse to use bath sand
Hamster won’t roll bath maybe not to recognize the smell of its own, appear to unfamiliar environment resistance, after the hamster can bath in the sand by itself, it is better to keep 1/4 of the old sand mixed with the new sand when changing the sand, so that the hamster will not have the repelling behavior because of the strange smell. In addition, it is better not to use the sand with a strong smell, which will have a certain influence on the hamster.
[usage] :1. Get the hamster bathhouse ready.
2. Pour the hamster bath sand into the bathhouse to a depth of about 1cm.
3. Put the hamster in the sand bath and keep the bath time at about 5 minutes.
4. The temperature of the larger solar terms can increase the frequency of bath.
5. Change the bath sand thoroughly after using it for about 3 times.
