Where do I get frozen hamsters?

mirabelasunshine · #1 (**permalink**) 03-25-2003, 07:01 AM

Hey there, everybody. I need frozen hamsters, and nobody seems to carry them. I have a brb, going on 2 years old, who is a very finicky eater. I've been forward and backward through husbandry details, and it seems to just boil down to this: she likes hamsters a whole lot better than rats. She'll take a f/t rat of appropriate size every ... month... two months... whereas, she's never met the hamster she didn't like. Just let her catch a whiff of the darned thing and she pops out from under her moss like a jack-in-the-box. She'll jump on it before you get the cage door shut. (Yes, I know feeding in the cage is bad, but it's another part of her act -- she is not into the feeding tub at all. My other boas are fine with it.) Anyway, the trouble is that buying hamsters one by one -- at pet prices -- gets spendy, and clonking the poor little guys on the wall makes me heartsick. Sometimes she'll fall for a f/t rat smeared in hamster gore -- but I'm about ready to say alright, if you want hamsters you can have them. Can't I order frozen bags of them to keep with the rats, the chicken, and pizza? If you know anyplace I should look, PLEASE post. Thank you!

- Matt
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pincess_wy · #2 (**permalink**) 03-25-2003, 07:23 AM

Well.... too bad you don't live in the UK! I just did a quick search ("frozen rodents, hamsters,&quot

and came up w/ a few places over there. I know that doesn't help you, but I also came across this ad at KS--

Large Frozen Hamsters

I definitely can't vouch for these people, b/c I have no idea who they are, but it might be a place to start....

~~W.

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mirabelasunshine · #3 (**permalink**) 03-25-2003, 07:27 AM

Yeah, that's exactly what I found. I'm in California... There's a place in Kansas that does frozen gerbils; if it comes to it, maybe I'll go that route. There must be all sorts of things she'd eat, actually... but my 'google' searches on 'frozen squirrel' and 'frozen chipmunk' didn't turn up much.
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pincess_wy · #4 (**permalink**) 03-25-2003, 07:32 AM

Also....

wormman.com

The page says they aren't selling mice until spring, but it doesn't say anything about the hamsters.... are you trying to not have them shipped?

Good luck w/ your searching!
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Stormyva · #5 (**permalink**) 03-25-2003, 01:39 PM

What about getting one hamster and scenting a f/t mice or rat with it?
Or not to be totally gruesome but what about draining and saving some blood from your next hamster to put on the rat's head to make it even more appetizing?
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RevMojo · #6 (**permalink**) 03-26-2003, 05:54 AM

As macabre as it seems, I think Stormyva has a good idea. Might be time to get a pet hamster. Or does your BRB need the gore?
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mirabelasunshine · #7 (**permalink**) 03-26-2003, 07:04 AM

It seems like she needs hamster juices, parts, clots... just rubbing on a hamster doesn't do it. For a while, I had an opened-up hamster in the freezer that I repeatedly thawed and smeared on rats, but it's a pretty gross thing... And then sometimes she'll go back on normal frozen rats for a little while... Really, it just seems to me like she knows what she wants to eat. In the wild, I don't suppose she'd have been eating rats. Or hamsters, or gerbils. What the heck would she be eating, then? Bats? Ground squirrels? Birds? Who knows. Anyway, she knows what she wants to be fed. I want frozen hamsters. There's a place in Kansas that does frozen gerbils; I might give that a try. And there's no darn way I'm getting a pet hamster. I don't *like* them. A pet rat I might consider, but more than half the hamsters I've met are mean.

Anyway, thanks for the help --

Matt
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Sunn · #8 (**permalink**) 04-25-2003, 01:44 PM

Somehow I missed this posting yet will just chit chat anyway....

Well.....first off I have a Ball Python that loves Chinese Dwarf Hamsters....I had got them because they were so cute and then found out how truly EVIL the little beggars are. They reproduce so fast you don't even have time to separate the sexes too! I found out about JB's love for them one night when I heard noise in the snake room only to find JB out of her cage and laying on top of a open aquarium of Dwarfs and picking them off for a delicacy...
since I gas my rats I decided to gas the hamsters too (I've gotten tired of delivering tons to the local pet store and have them overflowing also.)

I'd just get a few and let nature do her thing and then freeze some for my snake if she was that dead set on having them. Three months of hamsters breeding could fill her needs for months!

Just a thought! You don't have to handle the nasty lil things....I use the cat litter pan tool to move them in and out of the aquarium when I clean. The Dwarfs I have usually have from 4-10 babies at a time and they are reproducing 8 weeks after they are weaned....I tell ya...you can't rid yourself of them ....maybe your snake can!

PS......JB's cage now has a lock!!!

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Ravnos · #9 (**permalink**) 04-25-2003, 07:24 PM

Cajun mice used to sell frozen hamsters, but they stopped because its simply not worth the effort - barely anyone feeds hamsters. You might want to try contacting them and asking. Who knows, maybe they have a few bags left in their freezer. [img]modules/Forum/images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img]

Rav
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Bettina · #10 (**permalink**) 04-30-2003, 08:38 PM

I always see frozen hamsters being sold at reptile shows. There are a bunch of shows in southern california right around now. Also, a friend of mine got into hamster breeding for the fun of it, and it's really easy. Full sized hamsters have litters between 5-10 at a time, and they grow pretty fast. i think they're even sexually mature at 3 weeks or so. I also hate hamsters, but these guys were OK. You don't have to play with them, and just get a pair of leather gloves for when you want to separate the babies from the mom. Also, if you have an empty extra cage that you always keep clean and ready to house hamsters, cleaning becomes super easy. Just move the little buggers into the new cage, and they're good, then dump the old one at your leisure, or however that's spelled. They're good for a few days or a week. Depends on your bedding. Cedar works really well at covering that smelly hamster odor, although I hear you're not really supposed to use cedar.

Bettina
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Sunn · #11 (**permalink**) 05-05-2003, 08:30 PM

They sure are easy to breed.....The Dwarfs are a real pain to handle.

I've gone to 3 pet stores and no one wants my lil beggars so they are going to go to heaven tonight and get sealed up for when I'm short on small rats....the weaned babies will be about right for rat pup size.

I'll just keep the 2 real pretty females in the habitrail for the kids....that should
free up tons of room for me. I'm serious I have about 8 aquariums full of them! I can't get rid of them fast enough.

I hate to do it but I hate to keep feeding them too! I'll close my eyes and my hubby will
pull the trigger on the gas chamber. Poor man......he gets to do all the ugly jobs!

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