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xx: Thank you to everyone who responded to my question about hammer care. The hamster is not the most useful animal. When I come back from work, she sleeps, I wake her, I feed her. Then she bites the cage at night and prevents me from sleeping. Today, she removed the roof of her house. Maybe she is sick? I decided to give her a sweet waffle cake. Do hamsters eat sweets?
V: Give her a drop of nicotine... they probably don’t eat nicotine, but you can test a well-known theory about its brilliant effect on small rodents.