How Can I Train My Hamster To Go To The Toilet Where I Want Her To?
Saturday, October 31st, 2009 at
10:34 am
I have a dwarf hamster, who is very neat and tidy and always goes to the toilet at the same place, in her tubes… I would prefer her to use another part of her cage, where there is bedding, because that would absorb the smell a lot better. With these plastic tubes she is using, it starts smelling immediately, even if I clean them every day.
I have tried putting some of her droppings in a corner of her cage, but that doesn’t really seem to work. Does anybody have any other ideas?
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Ideally you need to buy a Hamster Potty, The corner ones are the best and pop it in a corner with some hamster potty litter or some chinchilla dust (Fine Sand) and add her droppings into it like you have being doing.
If he/she trys to go somewhere else, if feasilble, follow her/him around the cage with the potty.. i.e if they go in the other corner pop the potty there. When introducing the potty completely clean the cage and disinfect all the tubes so that they can not smell themselves on it so they don’t remember where they wee.
If this doesnt seem to work, a bowl of chinchilla dust in the cage will encourage them to clean themselves and where they clean they tend to poo as well,
Just be patient and keep on going, as they will soon get it… I know it sounds silly but i have trained 3 of my hamsters and my sisters and it jsut takes a bit of persaving. Dont Give Up and reward your hamster if they do it!!
Good Luck
Hmmm…:-? you do have a prom dont you, well you cant make a hamster go where you want her/him to go! My hamster goes in his whele and I cant stop him!
Sorry but you cant.
i have a guinea pig whitch is like a hamster and afer about 3 weeks we got a little litter box that gose in the corner of her cage and after a while she start to go in it
i dont think hamsters hav brains large enough to learn any tricks
Put her food there where you wish her to stay away. They don´t liike to eat in their toilet, same as us.
you could take the tubes out and when its found a place put them back in
u should hav gotten a rat.
try these helpful tips:
when she pee in a area you dont want her to just ground her by blowing in her/his face for about 5 seconds and he/she will learn not to pee in that spot.also when he is peeing in the wrong spot try putting her where you want her to pee and when she pee where you want her to give her a little treat and congratulate her and she/he will know its good to pee in that spot.
buy a small litterbox in the hamster department, and it has litter or use the bedding, at petsmart
I bought a litter box and hamster litter for mine. It attached off to the side like the tubes do. I put a few pieces of bedding that had some urine on them, and some poo in the litter box. If she went outside of the litter box, I just put the stuff in the litter box. Eventually that was where the smell was so she would only go in there.
Good luck.
well i have that problem too sometimes… mine do toilet in the upper tube (I dont know why because they don’t do in the lower tube!!! and when I put the upper tube at the bottom they did toilet at the bottom tube!!!! So I think they love that specific tube!!! I also used to do some toilet paper in the tube and it absorbed everythin but then the toilet paper was run everywhere and also at their nest! So I think that really there is no definate answer to your question. It’s very difficult to determine this….
Oh my gosh this is sooo weird, I have 2 dwarf hamsters and I was trying to solve this problem too. Ok the first thing I did was buy Hamster Litter (do not buy the plastic potty they dont like it) put it in a corner the hamsters insticts tell them to do their business there. The waste clumps up and is odor free it is a lifesaver, hope this helps!!!
Naughty hamster LOL!
The bad news? there is nothing you can do im afraid. They choose a spot to wee in and thats that!
But i have had my hamster a year and occasionally he does change corners of the cage where he is weeing, so be patient.
I have the same issues as you the last few weeks though. He has started weeing where he should’nt… where he stores all his food! its a nightmare, having to keep removing his stash of food everyday before he eats it. Animals have annoying little habits, unforunatly we have to put up with it. Just make sure wherever she is weeing is getting cleaned and disinfected on a regular basis.