When setting up a home for your pet hamster, one of the most important decisions you’ll make is selecting the right hamster bedding. Bedding isn’t just the material your hamster sleeps on – it’s an ...

The Standard's journalism is supported by our readers. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. We all love to snuggle down into our beds at the end of a long ...

There are two main species of hamsters kept as pets: Syrian (Golden) hamsters and Siberian (Dwarf) hamsters. Syrian hamsters are solitary by nature. You shouldn’t put them together after they reach 10 ...

When Mark Diner’s pet hamster Poppy died aged just six months, he was sad and confused, and requested a post-mortem. Vets retrieved a 1-2cm impacted sample of fibre she had ingested, which ruptured ...