She keeps my bunny alive

Basically lol

In agree

The sad truth 🐹🐹

So true

Yas my guinea pigs are so messy, but I love them anyway!

Yes, indeed. I have a chinchilla, and she requires alot of attention. I try to spend time with her as much as i can because i know that rodents are very good at hiding there illnesses and can become fatally ill and you wouldn’t even know. Thats why I researched for about ten months before getting a chinnie.

guinea pigs are legit not the same thing as hamsters sis

@@mariyaivanova9643 I agree. I have both. And given the height of bedding I give my ham, I could not touch his cage for 5 days and his cage would still be fine. My guinea pigs though, daily maintenance for sure. 2x daily.

@@mariyaivanova9643 I know, I used guinea pigs as an example cos I have more experience with them, but I've had hamsters in the past. My point was that rodents aren't "beginner" pets.

Exactly! You’re literally taking care for another life. Every pet has their specific needs and requirements in order for them to live and thrive a happy life. Every living soul deserves to live happily. And if you can’t, you shouldn’t have gotten your pet in the first place.

Yeah you are right hamsters are no beginner animals they are normal like others because many people own them and that a beginner pet should have low care not here😱😱😤😤🤨🤨

Goldfish?

You’re right but by beginner level they mean how easy it is to take care of them

@@niggat057 yes

Underaged comment. I’m not lonely

Likely a dog or cat vet honestly or just an outdate exotic vet. I don't like to go to vets for husbandry advice most of the time they just don't know updated care, they're great for medical, illness advice and treatments though.

@@VictoriaRaechel This is so true. With a lot of vets, once they get their certification, they stop educating themselves. Some also think that the longer they've been a vet, the smarter they are, but that means nothing if you haven't learned anything from your experiences. "I'Ve BeEn aN ExOtIc vEt FoR 30 YeArS, i'M nOt WrOnG." - an exotic vet that tried to give penicillin to my hamster. I think a lot of vets get burned out because it takes so long and so much effort to become one. Of course, that doesn't excuse malpractice.

I happen to be a vet, and I used to have a rescue station for hundreds of hamsters. From my experience very few vets know anything at all about hamsters - it is not part of our education, the university certainly doesn't teach about proper care or the right cage size. A vet only knows such things if he's personally interested in the topic and educates himself, like I did. Even the medication or anesthesia of hamsters is special and needs to be learned properly (but again, not in college) - I've met many colleagues who are afraid to perform surgeries on hamsters because they believe it goes wrong often. Which is not true if you know what to do. It takes some courage at first though.

@@hamuandxerxl4255 Yes when I first went to my exotics vet I asked how often animals die during sedation and she said she has only lost two (parrots) and they had underlying problems. Where as regular vets act like chance of death is 99%. lol I also had one recommend SAD lamps instead of UVB for parrots. lol That why is so important to shop around when comes to specialist vets.

😅😅

Me when I see random hamster videos that are not by Victoria Raechel or another pro:

I hate to see other pet KZfaqrs It’s so annoying

@@chocolatehamdog8745 Some people don't take proper care but Victoria Raechel, and some other people are pros.

Same, my hamster (in a 40 gallon tank with a diy lid) likes to hang on his hanging chew toys by his mouth. 🙃😂

@@samandthehams4496 glad to hear that. seeing mine do all that stuff, I was worried if she's happy in her enclosure (mine is 240 litres, 63.401 US-Gallons according to Google). I'll start freeroaming her in 1-2 weeks when she's tamer (I got her only a few weeks ago as a very young hamster, I want her to be comfortable with giant me first)

Same haha! She lives in a 55 gallon tank with more than 10 inches of bedding, but loves climbing her water bottle holder and trying to climb onto her wheel from it🤣

I gave mine 5 different types of wood to chew on + a grass nest, cardboard, a toilet paper hide and all that stuff to chew on but she chose the little block I added on the bottom of the lid that keeps it from sliding around (there's one in each corner, I never even thought that she could be interested in them)

Mine is the same. He makes nests under his water dish. He is a very silly bean. He lives in a 75 gallon tank, with tons of bedding, and 8 inch wheel, a big sand bath, a bunch of homemade bendy bridges, and 8 chews. Also, he is a hybrid dwarf

Even if it was after the fact I’m glad you went ahead and did more research to then realize you’ve been misinformed so that you could then change your mistakes and further educate yourselves on hamsters! ❤️

when i bought a hamster the employee said she owns small pets herself but still recommended some dangerous stuff

Yeah I had a very similar experience when getting my mice.We have a different pet shop but its basically the same concept. The employee though recommended us a biig wheel which as a teenager I probably wouldnt have gotten otherwise. And overall his recommendations seemed still great in retrospect. Sadly not everyone gets this lucky

OMG YESSS

She has one where she gave them some pancakes and spaghetti it was so cute. But I don’t remember if they were in a designated treat meal video

Yes! I love doing this for mine so I'd love to see what Victoria would come up with!

if you’re reading thus, plesse copy and oaste her comment so maybe shr can see!

She does both spaghetti and breakfast both and does little how two videos,, though I'm not sure if it's a series

I'm not saying no

Haha 😂

She should also so it to Petco because they have bad cages too and bad hamster care

@@ciskovasquez8228 same with Pets at Home in England

I’m happy to help!

does anyone have a good bin cage that you got? I have a 40 gallon fish tank but i need something that is easier to move around for a little while and I am looking into a bin cage but cant find and ones big enough/clear.

@@izzs8974 Walmart

OVERUSED NOBODY: MEME

Well she should it would be much better

Pet”Smart” be like: what are those?

guess I gotta tell my Chinese hamster that she's not real 😂

I see alot of russian campelles dwarf hamsters labeled as chinese hamsters at mpetsmart.

They don’t sell them tho

Too bad, those are my favorite species 😕

omg true why am I a hamster

@@VictoriaRaechel Because you like them so much, and actually care for them unlike , ahem, petsmart here.

Plotting to shut down petsmart 💀

Lol

@@VictoriaRaechel yasssssss

LMAO😂😂

@@VictoriaRaechel Yes tots agree

Ikr

Why does this says 23 hours ago. This vid was posted minutes ago?

@@preethajohn1127 Member's get early access to new videos.

@@preethajohn1127 yea idkkkk

@@preethajohn1127 it says 1 day ago

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Omg that’s so sad! I watched the first vid but I don’t remember it that well and it said that hamsters LOVE to BURROW BUT HOW CAN ANY THING EVEN AN *ANT* BURROW IN ONE INCH LIKE- JEHDBSOXNRBAPXNF

@@VictoriaRaechel Victoria is 8 inches of bedding good?What should I do

@@timothyellsworthpsyd3933 Its been a year, but 6 inches is the minimum and 10 inches is reccomended

happy to hear that!!

Great 👍

It’s definitely worth of getting our hamster bigger space. My Jimbo is much happier these days with his new home

Same!!

I never had to upgrade my hammy’s cage since I saw Victoria’s vid but I was able to convince my parents to let me get a hammy

I'm opening a small/exotic animal shelter in the near future, and this is the pitch I intend to give to my local pet stores. Pets are expensive, you make more money selling more toys and bedding to fill a larger cage, then you have more consistent customers because people's pets aren't escaping or dying or getting sick very often, leading to them being like "yeah, let's go to this pet store since I got a hamster from that other place and it died, but this one sells all the proper things so they're better taken care of". We used to have a pet store in my old city that was literally known as the place you go to get a pet that will die in a week. I'm thinking that pitch will work, since it's literally just a win-win-win for everybody, the company, the pet owner, me, and the animals.

They won't because they wouldn't sell as many hamsters and accessories if they told people how much money and effort it takes to properly look after one. They'd rather sell a thousand tiny cages than 10 large enclosures. Hopefully people will start to respect small pets just and much as they care about big pets like cats and dogs and animal are laws are expanded and enforced like they are with dogs and cats.

The German Rodipet website is amazing, they specialise in rodent. Everything they sell is based on research for the needs of specific rodents. They even sent out an expedition to Northern Syria to study hamsters in the wild and they created terracotta tunnels and hideaways based on actual hamster burrows. I got loads of cool natural stuff from them like wood, moss, Cork etc and they even sell specific types of soil for Syrian hamsters, robos etc that matches the colour and ingredients of the soil in those hamster's natural environments. I had stuff delivered to me in the UK and customs fees and delivery fees were fairly expensive but it's worth getting a bunch of stuff from them at once. They don't have a huge list of products but most of them are unique and specifically made for rodents so I love it.

@vibez-fishy ik im kinda late but.. good luck, im cheering for you!

It’s so frustrating. Like making a good and detailed pamphlet would take me maybe 30 minutes and would have been way better then this pathetic excuse of an “animal care guide”. Idk who they’re hiring to make the guides but they should be let go.

@@markk8248 I agree!

I know! If you do the proper research then you can take care of your animal easily, I don’t know why the pet stores make it harder than it has to be.

They are waisting paper and their time just to have people get angry and redo it again

Agreed. And it’s funny they don’t say the proper amount of bedding because the more you need the more you’ll buy.

My hamster Kola leaves it in the smol bowl so I try not to put as much pellets so she gets her food ✨

Mine just left all the pellets in the bowl so I completely remove them from her diet. I don't blame her, they're trash

I was about to refill his food dish and praise my hamster Mochi because he has eaten all the pellets, then I found out he just hid it on the other side of his enclosure, not on his nest! xD

Leave the pellets in hamsters will not starve themselves if there is nothing else in the cage apart for pellets it will eat it

Pellets are actually not necessary in a hamster's diet, so don't worry about it.

I'm glad I could help!

@@VictoriaRaechel My hamster lives a very happy healthy life thanks to you. I’m your biggest fan because of it. 💕

I’m getting a hamster on Sunday! Thank you so much Tori.

She doesn’t have to slip in a care guide in with pet smarts Her videos probably explain more good hamster care then any care guide.

@@kwirkykiwi9213 I’m getting a hamster on Saturday or Friday!

Poor hammy ):

@@AlejandraTorres-kx6no I know tell me about it it’s disgusting then to block people because they know better than you 🤣

That is awesome!🥰

Congratulations

Hi Victoria your the reason I have my hamster and your the reason he is happy :)

@Werner Dean thank you!

@@bouncethebeardie2790 Just happy to know that they are people who do proper research on hamsters and giving them the right care.

Thank you for the support :)

Always

I love hearing comments like these, thank you for being a good parent!

Lenny doesn't want to come out really and I have to respect him, he mainly hides until the lights are off and no ones around so a video dedicated to him is pretty hard ☹️

@@VictoriaRaechel aww :( hope he's ok!

Hope he is ok xxx. My hammy is almost 2, please can u tell me signs of old age and possible passing? Because I would love to make the most of her life as her sister already passed (not housed together!!) and I can’t lose another one! Also my hammy now is the first hamster I have ever held! I only managed to hold her a few days ago for the first time because she was sooooo timid xxx

Lol

@@itslexi1543 hehe. I got bored of typing me, so I thought people reading it would get bored too.

Yes

@@gabhamster3099 hehe

Hi

Thank you!

aww

Happy to help!

Thank you so much!!

@@VictoriaRaechel Np!

poor bb

@@VictoriaRaechel 🥺💗

hi!!

Wild, too, because wouldn't they sell more bedding this way? I know my local petvalu makes bank from the amount of bedding I buy every month

XuiLeeEv i know right! I see people at my local pet store buying the tiniest kaytee bags and i literally walk home with three bags of 40L carefresh like....

silly youtube

Haha my whole channel is already that!

Oh my god!! Actually, I remember a similar experience. So, my mom’s friend has a pair of birds. They were gotten from the pet store, and were put in the smallest cage possible. My mom asked what sex they were. She told my mom that there was boy and a girl. When my mom asked why, wouldn’t they create babies. She told my mom that she and her children wanted the babies. My brother had been asking for a baby bird for so long. So my mom decided that we get some. We went to the pet store (this was before I learned it was terrible) and got birds. The women there was literally choking and squeezing the bird to death when she was getting them out of the display boxes. The pet store didn’t even have everything that we needed for the bird. My parents even told me to keep my mouth shut, and listen to what the person there was telling us. I had done a bit of research on birds, but they thought the pet smart worker was right. When we got the birds, we put them in the biggest pet store cage we could find. Then one of the birds hurt his leg, and couldn’t fly. We returned them and got another pair of birds. Those were kept in the same cage that my mom’s friend put their birds in. I felt so bad for the birds back then, and still do because the cage was so small, and you could tell that they couldn’t even fly. We returned the birds, because my parents decided they didn’t want them anymore. Another experience I have buying from a pet store has to do with fish, like yours. I wanted a pet dog really badly. I was about 4-6 years old. My parents said that I can’t get a dog, but they would get me a fish. I went to the petstore with them and I looked at all the pretty fishies. We got a betta fish, and it was in the tiniest tank I have ever seen. I actually watched a video recently and it said that the fishes at PetSmart were ay to young to be sold. So we got the fish, a filter, and some weird small brown balls for food. We took it home and it died because my younger brother, who was pretty young then knocked it over on my birthday. The petstore worker told us some bad information, and gave us the tiniest cage possible. I hope that adults, and children understand how hard it is to care for an animal, and that pet stores are terrible. The staff are adults, they should have the common sense that breeding animals, and keeping them in tiny cages is bad.

I've had something like that happen too! I was like 8, and my sister and I wanted goldfish. We went to Petco (we didn't know how horrible they were at taking care of animals) and looked at goldfish. We asked what they would need, and the workers said they would need a bowl, some food, some pebbles for the bottom, and some plants or something to hide in. We got all those, and then we chose our fish. We picked three, took them home, then when we got up the next morning two were dead. We went back to the pet store, and got two more, but they died too. What the pet store employees didn't tell us was that the fish we were getting were meant to be fed to other fish. As I was 8, I didn't think much about each of them being dead, so we went again and got a betta fish. We got what the employees told us to get, and went home. He lived for like a year because I went on vacation and I only left him a pellet that the Petco employee said would last 20 days. When we came back he was dead. RIP Tealy☹️ I hope that we can change all the bad care instructions!

@@chaotic_gremlin wow, that’s really sad. I remember those pellets things too! My local pet store said it would last only 7 days though. According to @Madison Wells, 3 fancy goldfish which are the chubby thick ones, need 30 gallon as a minimum. 3 coronet goldfish, the normal more common ones, need 90 gallon as a minimum.

@@prettypeach13 3 *fancy goldfish would need a 30 gallon as a minimum, and by fancy we mean the chubby thicc looking ones. 3 comet type goldfish, the more normal looking ones, would need a 90 gallon minimum.

@@madisonwillis9591 oh wow! I never knew that, thank you so much for telling me. It just goes to show that gold fish which are supposed to be beginner pets are actually really expensive and hard to take care of. Let me edit my reply to the correct information, thanks again!

Happy to help!

Glad you liked it!!

Wait... WHAT?!

As long as they can run on it it's not to big

That’s not really a thing mostly for hams the bigger the better

@@allygriffen7617 well it is bc people say do but I think the 12 too 14 so good bc if you get bigger your hamster might not be able to even go on there wheel

Yep this is exactly why they’re considered to be a cheap pet and any regard for their life is ignored.

That's great, sounds like you are good animal carer and an empathetic person. I also get stressed out and worried when my hamsters aren't happy or need more enrichment. Hope your hammies are doing well now! 🐹🐹🐹

@@_Somsnosa_ i try to do good things, and be as good as i can yess they're doing great ^^ ty for your comment

A petsmart add came on while I was watching this. Wow.

Even 450 square inches is cruel 🤷🏻‍♀️ Anything less than 800 square inches is cruel. This is why I go by German size requirements and that’s what everyone needs to aim for or more. No excuse.

@@Nazoou_Neon i agree wholeheartedly 👍👍

@@Nazoou_Neon agreed.

@@Nazoou_Neon agreeeed

Happy to help!

SHOP LOCALLY!! where i live we have like 3 local pet shops that are small businesses and they get there hammy's and other pets like bunnies from breeders!

Happy to help!

I'm happy I could help!

(I know husky’s like winter but she’s a little puppy and I don’t want her to freeze )

She wouldnt have froze if your keeping her in a heated house as dogs normally should be..

@@Amanda-ml5fk yes I know that but I can’t keep her in her house for a whole day and it rains a lot she got one of her vaccinations only and the buyer said to keep her out the cold we can’t put her inside our house so we had to give her away

@@sarahsmiles9762 they don't mean in *her* house, they mean inside the same house you live in. That should be heated in some form.

They sell both unfortunately

I'm so glad!

Thank you for watching! ❤️

@@VictoriaRaechel omg ahhh ily

How big is it?

@@kohlenhydrat2665 I’m not too sure I think it’s about 2metres by a metre it’s all we can get right now as no people are selling any bigger ones

@@rosie4555 if it's that large, according to Google, that's about a 180 gal tank, about 680 L since I see you aren't using freedom units

@@madisonwillis9591 is that ok until we find a bigger one? The one we got her with was tiny and then I researched and got a bigger one which she currently has apart from she is trying to climb up the walls of the fish tank

@@rosie4555 wait what? 2x1 m is HUGE! Why are you saying that it's small? Lol

Happy to help!

Well, they all bite. But they only bite if provoked. Petsmart's bad care of hamsters is likely why they thought that.

They're all CAPABLE of biting. That would be like saying all cats and dogs bite. Or literally any animal.

@@mirjimcstinky8701 My hamsters never bit me 😄 I’m lucky but I never provoke them. I remember one employee from Petco asked “Is the hamster for snake?” one time I got a hamster there long ago the employee asked that with a smile😨 I said Hell no why would anyone buy hamsters to feed snakes. He said snake owners do that😭 Very disturbing.

@@madokaor3611 I had the misfortune of a video of that being up next on autoplay when I went to the bathroom... i can't even describe how horiffic it was

@@mirjimcstinky8701 sorry to hear that. That’s just disgusting how anyone can hurt these cute little animals.

@@pastelpets do I give him a food bowl or scatter feed him? Idk what you mean.

haha I need monies to make a pet shop

@It’Sarah, it looks like you have over 8K subscribers, can you stop using someone else’s fame, and hard work to gain subs.

Happy I could help!

Thank u for trying your best 🥺