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 2 Male Hamsters Found Dead In Cage...what Could Have Happened?
I have 3 separate cages of hamsters. They were all fine recently...then just tonight I checked one of the cages that housed 2 males and discovered them both dead in opposite corners of the cage...what possibly could have happened. I didn't see any physical damage on either of them....although they were both hard as a rock when I picked them up? Is that normal for a hamster to get hard and what causes that? Anybody have any idea?
 19 Mar 2008 11:47
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 I could not find a site that specifically answers this question because there are several reasons for a hamster to die like this. Here is a site on hamster care and illness. Hope this helps. Www.hamsterific.com/IllnessGuide.cfm
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by   nomad1
  19 Mar 2008 18:54
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 Male Hamsters fight each other all the time for territory reasons. NEVER do that again.
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  19 Mar 2008 19:50
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 Wow. One of them might of caught a disease, and spread it to the other male. Make sure to clean your cage thoroughly and then spray with disinfectent. Hope the other doesn't catch it.

P.S. I used to have a female hampster, Bonnita. She was one of two brand new hampsters I got for Christmas (the other was a male named Kibble). One day I found her and her babies dead in there cage, and Kibble looking horribley ill. I found out it was something in the food, maybe you should get a new brand

P.P.S This happened with Finia and Lightshow too (my goldfish)
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  22 Mar 2008 17:29
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 Most likely disease.....do your best not to spray disinfectant cause it has some chemicals that the hamster might intake....
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