The summer sun has warmed up, every day the assortment of products in stores is growing. More affordable are the domestic, grown in our zone, fruits and vegetables, as well as various overseas delicacies. Of course, caring people are trying to buy something for their little wards, waiting for their owners to come to the cages from the market. Therefore, the question of what can be safely introduced into the diet of a Dzhungar or Syrian hamster is very acute in the summer. Wishing to present the puppy with yummy, we can do much harm to him. Let's consider, that from greens or fruit it is possible to add in a forage of these amusing animals and what it is necessary to be afraid.
Hamster ration
Such greens as parsley, dill, salad, leaves of wild dandelion or clover, your pets will eat with great pleasure. The main thing is that all this beautiful greenery grows in an ecologically clean place. But remember that parsley has a tendency to weaken, it is better not to offer shoots of onion and sorrel to hamsters, but the salad is very juicy and give it to hamsters extremely carefully.
From vegetables our animals adore red pepper, in a small amount tomatoes, radish, carrots, pumpkin and zucchini. For a guarantee, you can peel the ripe fruit. It is not advisable to offer cabbage to pets, which can cause a dangerous swelling, and a potato that is heavy for the stomach of a hamster.
Can a hamster watermelon and melon? The fact is that early melon is grown with the use of nitrates, which can even damage a person. You can give a small piece of sweet fruit only when you yourself have grown it. But it's better not to take risks with the bought watermelon on the market. Feeding hamsters is a delicate thing. The fact that the owner does not cause even a mild ailment, his pet is able to provoke a severe poisoning.
Helpful Tips
Trying to increase the yield, farmers increasingly began using herbicides and various poisons, so often their products are dangerous even for people, not to mention hamsters and other smaller brothers. It is far from a rarity, when an appetizing salad or cabbage, which we carefully included in the diet of a Syrian hamster or rodent of another kind, suddenly causes a terrible frustration or even death. Try to take food as far as possible in your own garden or buy these things from acquaintances who will not harm themselves or their customers. A variety of wild grass should not be torn right at the road, it is desirable to collect the greenery no closer than 200-300 meters from the busy road.