Don't wash a hamster with water!

● Don't wash a hamster with water!

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Don't wash a hamster with water.

A hamster is the animal which originally inhabits the dry zones, such as a desert.
Therefore, there is no custom of washing the body with water.
Their body hair does not get dry easily, and if it gets wet, the body will get cold immediately.

As a result, physical strength is exhausted rapidly, and when the worst, it will die.

Moreover, the state where its body odor has sunk into the body is the most comfortable for a hamster.
Therefore, it is always groomed.
"Grooming" is operation which licks the body, cleans body hair and attaches its own saliva to the body.
They relax by doing like this and attaching one's smell to the body.
Therefore, if you wash a hamster with soap or a shampoo, they swallow detergent and there is a fear of becoming a cause of diarrhea.
Since soap takes the fat of the skin or hair, it also becomes hurting one's skin.

Moreover, by attaching saliva to the body, nutrition is given to hair (mainly vitamin) and there is an effect which prevents a disease germ.
Grooming will become useless, if man washes a hamster with water and removes saliva from body hair.
If a hamster is washed, they will groom themselves by being panicked.
When severe, the body is rubbed on a toilet.
It is the worst act to wash a hamster with water.

If dirt is worrisome, let's prepare the sand for sand bath.
In the wild, hamsters bathe themselves in sand.

Sand should use the baking sand for hamsters so that there are no worries about infection etc.

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