Name: Jells
Species: Dwarf
Gender: Female
Est. DOB: Oct 2025
Likes: Flax sprays, mealworms, corn, carrots, pine nuts (SUPER BIG FAN), cucumbers, millet sprays, walnuts, blueberries, grapes, coconut flakes, hoarding/storing lots of food, climbing, burrowing, digging sand, running on the wheel, noises, being fed, probably hooman fingers
Dislikes: being handled, being dug out from her burrows
Fosterer’s Instagram: @thetansters
Requirements:
Cage: unbarred cage with HSS measurement requirement
Wheel: non-wooden wheel with HSS size requirement (she pees on her wheel occasionally)
Bedding: as per HSS requirement, and at least 10-15cm depth of bedding as she loves to burrow
Food: as per HSS requirement (currently on fatpouches premium seedmix)
Enrichment: at least 2-3 ceramic hideouts, some sprays (if possible: flax/millet sprays), platforms (recommended as she loves to climb!)
Profile:
Jells very much resembles a jelly when being held as she is extremely squirmy and would likely slip out of your hands/grip. Due to her small size, she is speedy like a Roborovski but would happily stop to receive pats while being distracted from munching away on pine nuts. Other times, she just seems like a hamster on a full spur of zoomies speeding to her burrows/hideouts/climbing up high on her platforms. Jells is also a super curious girl who would closely follow any movements/sounds around her enclosure on her two tippy paws...which sometimes result in her clumsily falling into her sand bath or off platforms (pretty weird…). Interestingly, she is a BIG fan of taking food/treats from hooman’s hands/fingers so she may sometimes ignore food that is placed in her enclosure until you hand feed them to her. Although, BE WARNED that lowering your hands/fingers may risk them getting nibbled.
Having a rather timid nature, she may squeak upon being dug out from her deep slumber so her fosterer just rustles bedding/sprays to make her come right out. Besides being an excellent climber and runner, she is also an absolute entertainment and fun to watch. Throughout the day, you may catch her drinking water, pouching food or even hear her digging beneath in her burrows. During the night, she actively has zoomies running her wheel at full speeds while taking some occasional breaks pancaking on her platforms.
Fun fact: she may seem a little timid but she’s not ever a ghost hammie! Any noise she hears at any time of the day would make her come scurrying out from her burrows/hideouts!
