Does anyone know about how much a hamster cost?

Question

Is it hard to care for a hamster?

Answer 1

Before you spend your money at a pet store, check with the local shelter or an animal rescue league. They run between $6 & $17 depending on what color of Syrian or Russian dwarf you want. Ones that are spotted, banded, and black cost more, long hairs cost the least. I just started volunteering as a small animal rescuer and I give these little guys/gals a loving home. I just did a large rescue tonight at 2 homes and got a mouse from one and a male, 4 week old female baby, her mother and 4 two week old babies. I wasn't sucessful in getting the gerbil with 5 -1 week old babies. In 3 weeks I'll try again when their older. I also prevented the baby female from becoming a breeder when I took her.

For their care you will need a cage of choice, silent wheel (they help at night when your sleeping), water bottle (recommend Critter Canteen), food (Wild Harvest is good), food bowl, litter (best to use either Critter Fresh (Wal Mart sells) or Care Fresh (pet store sold), some treats, and toys. Never use pine or cedar the animals get breathing problems from them and aspen can have allergies to it though rare. Give lots of attention daily. Clean cage weekly and you will maintain a healthy hamster. Also ues this link to read mor on hamsters. The second is a great link for foods you can give them as well. The third is where I got nearly all my cages and accessories from, plus they have free shipping for orders over $39.

Answer 2

Usually like $10-$20, but thats just for the hamster, you have to buy a cage which probably will run you about like $30 or so depending on the size of the whole cage you get. Then there's the food, and the supplies. So just be ready for the expenses and the responsibility of having a pet. Its not something that you can set up the cage, and feed it once a week. YOU have to feed it everyday, change the water, change the bedding in the cage, then you also have to play with the hamster. And before you get one consider how often you go on vacations or how often you aren't home for a while. Think about who you have that can take care of the pet while you are gone, or think about if the place you are going lets you take a pet with you or not. Just whatever you do, make sure its not something that you will get bored of or tired of. And also remember they depend on YOU for food, water, shelter, and love.

p.s. Check also with how much it would be god forbid if you had to go to the vet or something. The smaller the animal the more expensive it is.

Answer 3

Around 100+

Supply list:
A good quality cage
Proper Bedding
Appropriatly sized water bottle
Exersize ball or wheel if not included in cage
Bag of good quality food
Bag of hamster treats (something to knaw on to keep thier teeth from over growing)
Vitamins
Food dish
Extra bedding (for when you clean out the cage)
Some kind of bed/hide for the hamster to sleep in
The actual hamster

Many people believe that small animals are easy to care for. Just because the animal itself is cheap, does not mean the actual supplies and care of the animal will be. For example, a betta fish costs anywhere from $3-6. The setup needed for a healthy betta can cost $30+ My snakes setup cost me twice as much as he did.

Answer 4

The hamsters themselves can range roughly from $5-20 depending on what kind you get.

I've found the teddy bear hamsters typically are $5-10 and tend to be nicer than the dwarf hamsters, and the larger ones live about twice as long as the dwarf hamsters, and don't tend to bite as much. I still have both dwarf and larger syrian hamsters, our syrian (teddy bear) hamsters are very friendly and never tried to bite anyone. Our dwarf hamster (which was $20) though is pretty skidish because of his size, and will try and bite until you get him out of his cage, he slowly growing out of this, and he can't really open his mouth wide enough to really bite you, but doesn't stop him from trying.

As for cost, we bought a 10 gallon glass fish aquarium (I tried the metal cages, but got tired of my hamsters throwing food out of them), the 10 gallon tank cost me $9, the lid cost me another $12, $5 for a wheel, $5 for a ball, $4 for a water bottle, $3 for suction cup mounts for the bottle, $2 for a large bag of bedding, $5 for a large bag of food, $3 for a food bowl, and $5 for a house for them.

On average we go through a $2 bag of bedding about every month to month and half, changing the bedding at least once a week. I tend to go through a $5 bag of food every 2-3 months.

The hamsters are cheap, and taking care of them is cheap too, the only thing that is expensive is initially getting everything for their cage.

The big thing with hamster is they need to be handled regularly to keep them tame and friendly, we get ours out typically when they wake up around 8-9 PM and let them run around for a while.

Another tip, most pet stores mainly sell male hamsters, because males tend to have less health problems than females. Also remember hamsters should not be kept together. If you want to keep hamsters together, you better buy two hamsters from the same cage, at the same time, that is the only hope you have of keeping two together. Even then you maybe forced to separate them if they fight. They can kill each other. I keep two teddy bear hamster together though, and they do well together, but they were brothers and we bought them at the same time.

Answer 5

Hamsters are not costly at all its the cage and supplies that will cost you! Hamsters are usually under 20 and that is a high estimate. Try these sites to chck out hamster cages and supplies.Hamsters are very easy to care for you just need to establish proper diet and enviroment.

www.petsmart.com Or www.superpetz.com

Hoped this helped!

Answer 6

You can get a hamster for a very small price,but then you have to pay for the cage and food,stuff inside the cage weekly.so about 20-30 dollars for a start.plus it depends on how big you want the cage to b and how much u want to pamper yr hamster.

Answer 7

About $100 after you buy the cage, bedding, and vitamins, ect. The hamster will cost about $15

Answer 8

My hamster was free, it came with its cage. Otherwise, it would've cost me $7 to buy it. Yea, it's very hard to care for a hamster, you have to clean the cage every week and the cleaning process is troublesome. But it's all worth it when you get to play with it.

Answer 9

hamsters can range in price from $3.99 for a regular golden to up to 12.99 for a fancy or teddy bear. i have seen some mongolian dwarf hamsters for $20.99. the most expensive thing if your getting a regular hamster will be his/her cage. you want it big enough for room to play, exerise wheel, bedroom aand bath. we usually used cages about the size of a 10 gallon aquarium. also if using a aquarium be sure to get a good lid. the little guys are great escape artists. hamster food usualluy runs $1.98 for a small size to $4.99 for a bag that will last a while. they appreciate treats like sunflower seeds, peanuts in the shell, and you can buy treat sticks for them. pretty easy to care for. they can provide some good laughs with their antics. good luck with your hamster

Answer 10

hamsters if you go to Chinatown in San Fran cost $5 each if you know the right shop, they're easy to care for feed them, take out their poo, and thats it no biggy