Mysterious Hamster????????

Question

I'vr obtained a free hamster from my moms friend and dont know what type it is. It is 3 1/2 months old and 2 inches big.

Description: Short Hair

Small whiskers

Stubby Tail

Abnormaly HUGE (male parts)

Gray under belly brownish Top

Any tips or sites would be GREATLY appreciated !!!

Answer 1

defineley sounds like a chinese hamster, i have one called Mushu and he seems to fit the description perfectly. chinese hamsters have a dark stripe running along their spine and actually tend to have a slightly longer tail than most common hammies, and have a small mouse-like appearance. people mistake them for being dwarf hamsters but they're not.

Answer 2

By his size he is either a dwarf hamster or a Chinese Hamster.

Answer 3

A dwarf prolly not a robo dwarf

Answer 4

I don't think it's a dwarf hamsters, as they don't usually have "male parts" (not the robo ones anyway), and they're not USUALLY brownish.

A picture would really help.

What I imagine from your descriptions is what the stores keep labelling them as "regular" hamsters, which I think is a type of teddy bear hamster, but they're much smaller and fur stays short.

Answer 5

Sounds like some sort of Dwarf- maybe a chinese Dwarf. It's hard to know without a photograph.

Answer 6

Can you post a picture?  I think Teddy Bear hamsters are the most common, and they come in a bunch of different colors.

Answer 7

All hamsters besides the "teddy bear" (long haired ) syrian variety have short hair.

All hammies have stuby tails. (lol, no such thing as a long-tailed hamster! :P)

And all males have huge testicles

So we'd really need a picture to help you :/

Most greyish hamsters are usually dwarf as grey is pretty uncommon in syrians (although there are grey syrians as well.

By the way, there are only 2 main kinds of hamsters. Syrians are all the large ones, and dwarfs are the size of mice.

Here is some pictures of the types:

http://www.hamsterhideout.com/breeds.htm...

http://www.animalcorner.co.uk/pets/hamst...

Answer 8

http://hamsterhelp.blogspot.com/2006/03/...

this web site has some pics. of different types of hamsters