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How can you heal a guinea pig's foot without going to the vet?
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Can hamsters suffocate from burrowing in their wood chips to sleep?
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Do hamsters purr?
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If you have a 10-day-old infant wood mouse who is not ready for solids and only on milk how long before overgrown teeth are a risk to him and can they overgrow quickly?
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When does a mother hamster stop nursing its babies?
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What do you do for a guinea pig's broken leg?
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If when hamsters are happy they purr and when they are hungry they squeak and when they are scared they squeal what does it mean when they make a loud clicking noise?
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What should you do if your guinea pig has a purple leg but it is not swollen?
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Can hamsters menstruate?
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What could your guinea pig have had if there was crusty white stuff on her skin and she lost all her hair but you treated it with flea spray and she's looking better?
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Why would your guinea pig's body vibrate when you pet it?
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How can you tell how old your guinea pig is?
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How can you tell if your Dwarf hamster has mated or not?
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What does it mean if your dwarf hamster has a red nose and keeps biting you all the time?
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How old is your 2-year-old hamster in human years?
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Is it OK to have two female Guinea Pigs housed together if they are both females if one is pregnant?
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What foods extend a guinea pig's life?
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Are hamsters supposed to lick you because your hamster licks you and you don't know if that is normal or not?
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How do you treat a guinea pig's broken foot?
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Is it easy to clean out a guinea pig's cage?
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How often should you take your hamster out of its cage to hold?
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If your hamster has dirtied her fur with the oil you used to lubricate her wheel can you clean her or should you wait for her to clean herself?
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Do full grown guinea pigs range in size?
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Are hamsters allowed to eat fish and chicken?
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What do you do when you've had your baby male guinea pigs for 3 days and one has kicked the other one out of the bed and won't let him near anything and is definitely dominating him?
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What do you do if the mother guinea pig will not let her baby nurse?
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What do two round dark spots on each of your hamster's hips mean?
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What should you do if your baby hamsters are behind your wall somewhere in your basement and won't come out?
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Why do guinea pigs lick your fingers and does it mean they are happy?
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If one of your baby hamsters is limping after it fell off a table about 3 foot high and its leg is not broken could there be any other reasons for its limp?
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How do you know if a guinea pig is mating?
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Why do some hamsters freeze whenever you look at them and are they scared or angry or just nervous?
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What could white gooey smelly stuff on the behind of a female hamster be?
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If your hamster has a sprained leg what can you do?
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Are guinea pigs and hamsters compatible?
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What should you do when your guinea pig is sneezing but is very active?
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Will your guinea pig's broken leg heal without a splint?
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What's the difference between a Siberian hamster and a Russian hamster?
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What is wrong with your hamster if it fell off its cage and was lying on its back not moving and then slowly started to move and she's moving much better now but is still slow?
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What is wrong with your hamster if his foot is all purple and swollen?
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What are the colors of a marked guinea pig?
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How do you heal a 4-month-old guinea pig's broken leg?
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How do you play with a dwarf hamster?
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How long do you have to wait to hold a hamster after it comes home with you?
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How do you determine whether injuries to a Golden Hamster incurred by cat bites are serious and life-threatening or minor?
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How long do baby guinea pigs stay in the mother's stomach?
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Do guinea pigs ever close their eyes when they are sleeping?
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Are rabbits or guinea pigs more popular as pets in Australia?
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Can hamsters go outside?
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Do hamsters eat papaya?
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Do guinea pigs live longer when they have a guinea pig friend living with them?
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How can you tell if your hamster does not like you when you put your hand in the cage and it stands up on its hind legs and opens its mouth extremely wide as if ready to bite and is that normal?
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Why does foamy white stuff come out of your guinea pig's eye after you give him a bath?
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How old do baby hamsters have to be before they open their eyes?
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What should you do if your guinea pigs have dandruff on their skin?
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When is mating season for hamsters?
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What is the white liquid that comes out of a guinea pig's eye?
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How do you tell if your new born guinea pig is a boy or a girl?
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What is easier to raise a hamsters or a gerbils?
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Can a Hamster and a Guinea Pig share a cage?
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What does it mean when a male and female hamster that have been separated after a litter is born keep trying to rejoin each other?
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Are baby hamsters allowed to leave at 4 weeks old?
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How can you tell when your hamster is going to die soon?
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Does a hamster or a gerbil make a better pet for a 10 year old child?
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Can a hamster and a gerbil share a cage?
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What could be wrong with your 2 guinea pigs if they keep making a hacking kind of noise and when you give them their dry guinea pig food they seem to throw it up?
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How can you take care of baby hamsters if their mother died?
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What is wrong with the hamster if it has recently started losing fur on all of its legs and on the back left side?
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What is a young guinea pig called?
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What is wrong with your guinea pig who is bleeding from the butt and what can you do to help it?
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