Hamster Owners & Vets : Please take part in my International Syrian Hamster Health Survey!

The alt.pets.hamsters newsgroup is a great, friendly place to find out anything you would want to know about hamsters. Hi to all the regulars!

Hamsters make great pets - they are clean, cute, funny and relatively easy to look after.

I have kept hamsters since I was about ten years old and am rarely without one.

I am alergic to most hairy mammals (dogs, cats, rats and so on) but seem to have no problem with my hamsters.

I have kept both the larger Syrian and the smaller Dwarf varieties and both have their good points.

At the moment I have a couple of Russian Dwarf Hamsters. Despite being sisters one is small, sleek, grey and the most hyperactive creature I have ever seen while the other is big, fat, dumb, lazy and will attempt to eat anything that moves and sleep on anything that doesn't.

Check out this photo gallery dedicated my hamsters past and present.

My wife and daughter love hamsters too.

Check out this photo gallery dedicated to their furry friends.