All About Hamster Enrichment 🌾

Often enough people do not provide their hamsters with proper enrichment, further causing them to perform stress & boredom behaviours. Providing them with the proper enrichment can further help them thrive in our homes.
Thank you to Plueschraupe for the burrowing clips and for being a great hamster educator! You can find them here:
Other helpful sources:

Where to buy hamster herbs:

Hamster sprays:

Cardboard connectable tubes:

Tubes and branches:

Multi chamber hides:

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0:00 Intro
1:41 Forage
4:24 Bedding depth
6:25 why your hamster won't burrow
8:44 different substrates
9:31 Sand baths
11:35 tubes and branches
12:35 platforms
13:31 hideouts
15:21 multi-chamber hide

[azzaspets]

when you talked about how hamsters wont try to burrow in not enough bedding i remembered my first hamster... her name was diamond and i get her when i was nine. i knew nothing at the time so she had a small pet store cage with two inches of bedding. i remember looking in her cage one day and she had pulled all of her bedding to one side of the cage under a level to make a tiny little burrow rather than sleeping in her house. obviously since i knew nothing i thought it was funny, then ripped apart the burrow that she made. i feel so bad looking back on that, i just know that she would have been one of those hamsters that makes huge burrow systems like nea does if she'd been given the chance. i learned and fixed my mistakes but i learned years after she passed, i wish i could have done better for her. im sorry diamond i wish id known better i wish i could have given you what artemis has now

[popoi]

It cant be only me who is obsessed with natural themed cages.I think they give more enrichment for The hamster🐹

[HoppingHammy]

Wow, I'm only a few minutes into your video so far and it's already AMAZING! 😍 I love all of the zoo and animal clips you've added in for us to watch. The photo of the various foraging options is such a great addition too! I can see how this video must have taken FOREVER to put together. Okay, I'm going to stop typing and finish watching! Great video topic! ❤

[maxmartinez]

The amount of research and time you put into educating people is so incredible! Thank you for putting the time in to ensure these little cuties are happy and healthy

[the_clairesss]

My hamster lived in those small cages all his life and i finally was able to get a bin cage for him that meets the bare minimum, im definitely going to continue upgrading because the bin is not tall enough to add enough bedding but he did start burrowing

[Alina-movc]

Victoria : talks about hamster enrichment
Me : OMG I LOVE HOW SHE WRITES SOMETHING TO DO WITH HER VIDEO ON HER MINI CHALKBOARD

[laretawan]

Just wanna let you know that you’ve saved so many hamster life’s🎀⭐️! Love you and you’re channel😽☀️

[teresedaigle]

Victoria's videos have changed SO MUCH in length and style in the time I've watched them, and that's only 2 years. Her longer videos like this one and her latest one on cage sides are definitely worth the wait. Her old videos usually were very informational about 1 part of a subject, but now she puts so much effort into talking in depth about the whole subject, but easy to understand. They're almost like mini documentaries in a way, especially considering she talks about studies that have been done and about hamsters in the wild.
Everybody take a sec to appreciate how far this girl has gone in her time on YT.

[tothelighthouse]

You're Canadian! I should've known--it makes me even more proud & supportive of your efforts to ensure animals are treated well. Hello from Ottawa!

[waltergrove]

I have been waiting for an enrichment video for SOOO loooong, Ive been through almost all of your videos, and have been through the "how to have a happy hamster" video several times but THIS was the video that Ive been waiting for :D

[definitelynotavegan]

Me, doesn't own a hamster but has mice instead: *interesting*

[zerenugur]

Hi Victoria! After watching your video's about hamster cages, I learned a lot about hamsters. I saw a little dwarfhamster on a marketplace yesterday. He had a tiny tiny cage, 1 centimeter bedding and a very small wheel.. So sad he had to stay 4 months in that cage. The owners also did not let him out, so he stayed scared from people. I picked him up today, got him an Ikea detolf and a lot of bedding, a large wheel and some toys ☺️ He was very curious and scared in the beginning, but started burrowing and looking around after some hours. Thanks to you, I learned much more about hamsters. Looking forward to give my bew hamster a better and happy life Keep up with your video's, we love them🥰🌸🐹

[maanasaschwartzkopf]

Hi! I'm actually the person who wrote the informational post on limiting flax - and I'm so so glad it stuck with you, as it's such an important topic to me that many people don't know about 😊 as I remember you commenting, most people think flax pods have only one seed which is obviously far from the truth. (That was such a small part of the video but I'm just overjoyed you mentioned it!) Anywho this was one of my favorite videos you have made to date I have to say. Have a lovely evening!

[VLH]

I have owned hamsters as pets since I was 8, I am now 29, and have recently gotten a female Syrian and is the most challenging hamster I've ever owned (it's absolutely the best thing ever she's literally teaching me so much she's the cutest when she goes to sleep in her play pen and regularly shows understanding that when I put my hand in flat it's an invitation to climb my hand to be picked up out of her play pen) this video has given me so many ideas on how to enrich her life as she is very much driven by instincts to chew and climb (when I first got her I gave her a typical cage set up where she could burrow in one area and run in a 12 inch wheel in another and scatter fed her every night but she was so stressed and unhappy in this cage) I quickly changed her set up and provided her things in her enclosure that kept her happy and provided her a play pen of typical toys (including the 12 inch wheel) in which she gets to have as much time as possible and her main enclosure is filled with enrichment she is motivated by and since then I've seen a huge improvement in her stress levels

[hootini]

Ive been watching your videos lately . Im looking to get a dwarf hamster for my daughter due to space in my house i got a 138l plastic storage container . It may just be a little under the uk requirement but its the best size i can get . I havent had a hamster since i was a child and was like everyone who didnt know what they wanted . But this time im doing it properly been a bit stressful making sure i get the right stuff and isnt cheap . But i think it will be worth it . I spoke to someone at pets at home and asked for their honest opinion on size of cage for hamsters and was happy with their answer . All my family think im mad for what ive got but i think they have realised what im doing is right for the hamster and glad im doing it right. Still need to get enrichment and stuff for the hamster to use but im nearly there . Thank you for all the knowledge and tips

[hannahshouseplants]

She is so good at looking after her animals💖

[Publicprofilename]

Seriously thank you so much Victoria!!! I just got my very first hamster and I’m SOOOO GRATEFUL to have found your videos. I’m working on enrichment and I feel so much more relieved now that I have a better idea on how to make my hamster happy ❤ you are doing the hamster God’s work!

[taylorreed]

I wanted a multi chamber hideout for such a long time and then I found one at a thrift store a few weeks ago and my hamster loves it! I love all of you videos so much!😊❤️

[ՔձշՀվթրչձշտ]

Amazing video!!! I have a hamster named snowy. At first he didn’t have a good enclosure, but then I watched one of your spactacular videos, and now he has 750 sq inches o, floor space, and LOTS more enrichment!🥰

[caitbarron]

I haven’t even had my hamster for a month yet and I can’t tell you how much you’ve made her life better. I find myself watching your videos all the time and finding out I’m doing things wrong or I can do more to provide her with a better life. Both Penelope (my hamster) and I are so thankful for your videos