Hamster Society (Singapore)

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Digsby (Adopted)

Species: Winter White x Campbell Dwarf

Gender: Male

Estimated Age/DOB: ~ 6 months

Likes: Peas, frozen tofu, pumpkin seeds, digging, burrowing, redecorating his cage, fresh foods (e.g. silken tofu, cabbage, carrots)

Dislikes: Superworms, having his cage spot cleaned and rearranged

Fosterer’s Instagram: @peppersfosterhome

Digsby (pronounced digs-bee) had a rough start in life. Abandoned with his cage mate along a HDB void deck with minimal food and water in filthy conditions, one would think that he’d end up a bitter and mean little hamster but Digsby is the complete opposite. He is as sweet as they come with a good nature, albeit a little shy at times.

True to his name, Digsby enjoys making tunnels and designing his precious home to his liking now that he finally lives by himself. Whenever his foster mum spot cleans his home, Digsby runs over to wherever the action’s at and tries to dig at the bedding at the same time too.

Maybe he’s unhappy that his foster mum is undoing all his hard work? Maybe he’s trying to get a cleaning participation award? Maybe he’s trying to save his hoard of seeds from the clutches of his evil foster mum?  We will never know but one thing’s for sure, Digsby is particular about how things are arranged and he will let you know about it through his special gentle ways.

This sweetheart definitely deserves a forever home (and a medal for best designer) with everything he’s been through thus far. Make him yours and watch him undo your designs, get busy decorating his new home to his liking, and happily stuff his face with his favourite foods with only the top half of his body draped over his food bowl afterwards.

Requirements

Cage: 90x50cm or bigger

Wheel: 21cm or larger

Bedding: Fluffy bedding as topper, such as but not limited to Fatpouches’ Tea Bag Bedding (TBB) or shredded tissue paper, so Digsby can pretend he’s swimming in bedding, with a regular HSS-approved paper or aspen-based bedding base layer

OR 

Full paper-based bedding with a compressed height of at least 10cm for Digsby to burrow in

Food: As per HSS requirements

Enrichment: As per HSS requirements