How can you tell if the hamster is playing dead? What details should be paid attention to when breeding?

Hamster is a very lovely animal, now many friends raise it as a pet, soft cute, very fun. However, the hamster is not easy to raise, it also has a special ability to fool you by playing dead. So how can you tell if the hamster is playing dead? What details should be paid attention to when breeding?

How to tell whether the hamster is pretending to be dead?

Lively seduction method: the hamster is a social animal, a pretending to be dead, can take a few bouncing hamsters nearby to do Party, the hamster will slowly recover when he hears the noise.

Torture law: as a creature, hamsters are also afraid of "extorting confessions by torture". They can pick them up and tease them. If they are happy for a while, they will not pretend to be dead.

Breath method: put some light things such as silk cotton and toilet paper on the hamster's nose, and you will see the movement as soon as you breathe.

Temperature measurement: if you pretend to be dead for too long, use your body temperature to measure the hamster's body temperature. You know: there is a big difference in body temperature between living and dead.

Physical seduction: take some of the hamster's favorite food and wobble around its mouth. The hamster can't help but come back to eat when it smells.

Second, what details should be paid attention to when raising hamsters?

1. The hamster has a good sense of smell, so if you take its favorite food, it is likely to smell it and bite you because it thinks you are food. It is recommended to wash your hands before and after touching the hamster.

2. Your hamster used to be co-bred in a pet store. Although the young mice do not have a strong sense of territory, they will often fight with other hamsters in the same cage, so they will be grumpy and vigilant and hostile to other creatures. It is recommended that you get along with the hamster according to the schedule and eliminate its hostility.

3. You don't know the hamster yet, but you often fiddle with it and scratch it with your hands so that it doesn't have sense of security. It is still recommended that you take time to eliminate hamster hostility to you step by step.

4. The hamster has poor eyesight. It mistook your fingers for food. When touching a hamster on your hand, if you don't keep your fingers together, the hamster is likely to bite off your finger as food. However, they usually don't bite too hard, just give you a kiss. So it's best to put your fingers together when you put the hamster on your hand, but not too tight, it will get stuck in the hamster's foot. It is also best not to tease hamsters with your fingers to reduce the risk of being bitten.

5. Hamsters have a strong sense of territory. If you touch another hamster and have the smell of another hamster on your hand, then the hamster will drive out the strange hamster (actually your hand) unceremoniously. Therefore, it is common to be bitten by mistake after touching another hamster. It is recommended that you wash your hands before touching your own hamster after touching another hamster.

Many netizens have been bitten by hamsters, and everyone will ask if they don't need to be vaccinated against rabies. Being bitten by a hamster may also be infected with rabies (it may be unlikely, but because the rabies fatality rate is 100%), wound treatment and rabies vaccination are recommended as soon as possible, and human rabies immunoglobulin should be injected if necessary.

Skin wound treatment: rinse all bites and scratches immediately or as soon as possible with soapy water / detergent and plenty of water for about 15 minutes as conditions permit) and, if conditions permit, apply iodine or similar local antiviral agents to the wound. Those with deep wounds and serious pollution are treated with anti-tetanus and antibiotics as appropriate to control infections other than rabies virus.

The appearance is agreeable, but after all, it is an animal and lives according to its nature, so the feeding process must be scientific and careful.