i have been handling her with a glove on as she is only seven weeks and a little nervous still but i tried to hold her without the glove on and she bit me. she tries to bite me evry time i take off the glove.
any suggestions on what i should do please?
2006-12-22 05:05:02 · 9 answers · asked by emma r 1 in Pets ➔ Other - Pets
sensible answers only please.
2006-12-22 05:10:07 · update #1
patience. can take a couple months. let her get used to u. let her smell u & hear u talk to her every day. don't wake her. play with her on her time. get her out with the glove and then sit down on the couch and let her crawl on u. this lets her get used to u. u can pet her as she walks on u. stick your hand where she can smell it & talk to her every time u pass her cage. feed her small bits of food daily. eventually try to pick her up. i dont advise any kind of physical abuse when she bites as it may scare her more. i would though make a sound she associates with bad behavior--with mine i make a kind of nasally ahhhh sound---kinda like a parrot maybe? lol hard to explain. if u tug her ear like mentioned she associates the hand with bad things--this is why a sound u dont normally use is better.
good luck
2006-12-22 05:35:55 · answer #1 · answered by galaxygurl 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
THAT is precisely why I own Rats instead. Hamsters bite out of spite and just for the hell of it. A hamster bites like a dog barks, its just part of being a hamster. If you like rodents, a rat is a good pet because they only bite when frightened. Over the past 2 years I have owned 15 different rats at various stages of life. They just don't bite. They make wonderful pets if you can get past the fact that its a rat.
2006-12-22 17:21:45 · answer #2 · answered by Precious 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Put him in a cage with our own Yamster and his nunchucks. He'll learn good manners or die.
Oh, you said sensible answers only. Sorry. Besides, now I notice you said it was a girl. Yamster wouldn't hurt a girl. Might make her too busy to bite you though . . . want a whole bunch of little hamsters?
2006-12-22 05:22:49 · answer #3 · answered by auntb93again 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I used to have hamsters, they woul dbite me too, but not very often. I think it is out of love. What I did was set up some pillows on the other side of the room and when the little fckers would bite me I would let them crawl into a Christmas paper tube and I wold shoot them out of it like a blow dart across the room into the pillows. Sometimes I missed.
2006-12-22 05:15:26 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Hamsters are rodents. Therefore, they are predisposed to "nibbling" or "biting" practically anything. When my kids had hamsters years ago, I would "tweak" their ear with my finger every time they nibbled on my hand. Not hard--nothing to hurt the little booger, but just enough to get its attention. It soon learned to associate nibbling on the handler with an inevitable annoyance to itself. It's a mild, humane form of negative reinforcement for bad behaviour..
2006-12-22 05:13:33 · answer #5 · answered by Trollbuster 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
well first make sure your hands are clean and that you havent just fed her or that you just ate and if theres still problems you can hold it by the nap of the neck i know it sounds mean but it works just dont dangle them make sure you have your hand under them you can also give her chew sticks if you havent already i would sugjest some that have vitamens in them.
2006-12-22 05:21:18 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
ummm..all i have to say issss BITE HER BACK!! nooo i am just kidding try to feed her a peice of her faveorite food while holding her soo she will be too busy eating her food to try biting u!! let me know how it works!!! hope i can help
2006-12-23 06:06:38 · answer #7 · answered by misskrisrox 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
get a snake
2006-12-22 05:06:57 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
bite that SOB back, that'll teach it
2006-12-22 05:07:00 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋