Can hamsters bathe in water?

Hamsters are not allowed to bathe in water.

In fact, hamsters can't touch water. They can drink water. Besides, hamsters will not die immediately if they swim in the water. However, the Mao Mao of hamsters is particularly dense. If you simply wipe the surface after taking a bath with water, it will be difficult to dry the wet Mao Mao inside.

If you want to blow dry thoroughly, you can only use a hair dryer, but hamsters are too timid to wait for you to blow dry, so many hamsters can only wear wet Mao Mao after taking a shower. In the process of evaporation, these Mao Mao will take away the heat in the hamster, which will lead to the hamster catching cold, and lead to symptoms such as hamster cold and diarrhea.

However, it is not impossible to bathe hamsters. We can buy special bath sand to bathe them.

Hamsters roll on the beach and clean themselves. If you feel that the bath sand is not clean enough, you can buy dry cleaning powder for pets, and rub the fragrant dry cleaning powder on the mouse to make it clean.

Morphological characteristics of hamster

Hamsters are compact rodents from small to large. Short and thick, weighing 30 ~1000g. The tail length varies from 7 to 106 mm, which is generally half of the body length, without scales and covered with dense hair. A few species (such as desert hamster) are short, less than half of their hind feet.

In some species, females are larger than males. The color of tail hair varies greatly, generally gray, taupe or sandy brown. The original hamster has bright fur, reddish-brown back and dark brown abdomen. Dark brown hamsters have long and thick hair. Their backs are gray, pink, light yellow, light brown or reddish brown, and their bellies are white, gray or black.

Their flanks are usually white with some stripes and sebaceous glands in the middle.

The odontoid process of molar is tumor-like and arranged in two rows, and the left and right odontoid processes are not opposite or almost opposite. Hamsters have a double-cavity stomach, and most of them have no gallbladder. Their large intestine and cecum are quite complicated. The diploid chromosome number of hamster is between 20 and 44. Thoracic vertebra 13, lumbar vertebra 6.