My hamster twitches.....like he has torrettes

He is called blossom ! ^_^

he is one of 3 robo's. but he has had the problems

I always seem to attract hamsters deformed in one way or another.

a few days after i got him he had a poorly eye, i think he was allergic to the grass tunnel. so i took it out.

He scratched his eye so it was swollen and pussing(not his actual eye the bit benethe)

And lost his hair around his eye. i took him to the vets for antibiotics, he said he has had an allergic reaction. and the cut benethe his eye is infected.

so he gave me eyedrops, BUT blossom was allergic to the eye drops.

So the eye drops stopped. and this stuff was put in there water.

3 days later back to normal.

a week later he falls off the 3rd floor in his cage and breaks his foot.

2 months on and he is ok but he twitches (not wen he is asleep) when he walks sits eats , just constant twitching


What is this and why dose he do it????

ARGH its disstressing for me to watch!

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the breaking the foot may of knocked a nerve.

hmm okay

but its his hole body

xxx

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How long has he been doing this? Is it daily? Is it only for a little while, or literally constantly?

If it isn't constant, it could be something as simple as hiccups. Or it could even be a stroke, or he could be having seizures, or it could be numerous things.

I think it's hard for us to tell without seeing it for ourselves... so I think your best bet would be to get your hamster to a vet and tell them what your hamster has been doing and maybe let the vet see the twitching for himself.

about 2 weeks he has being doing it now.....

Priti much every day.....


Its only when he is awake and not running on his wheel or asleep


but when he is

sitting...going to sleep.....eating....walking

he twithches then.

it doesent seem to bother him. but it bothers tallulah nd cheri (still both boys)

so i have made it so he has his own headcourters on the 3rd floor, with house foodbowl, water bottle,sweetcorn etc etc.

its deffo not stroke. or seziurs.

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im going to guess that he's having a fit or a seizure. In that case, he needs to put on his own in a warm, quiet and dark area to calm down

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you can't say its 'deffo not' because he may only have them mildly and not serverely.

okay okay

Why is he 'fitting'


Do i need to seperatee him
from other hammies???

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there are many things that can cause fitting. Stress, over heating, over doing it during exercise.
its considered a good idea to seperate the hamster until the fits stop but it all depends on how serious the fits are? how long they last? etc...

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AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH chris ur a genius!!!!!

i bet u its the exercise!

He is allllways on his wheel!!



they last from

15 secs to 50 secs

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