Bonded pair needs

[mia]

What is the likelihood that the bonded pair will grow to dislike each other? Do I need to prepare for this? I have hamsters who are friends but they can gradually turn and kill each other so I keep a spare habitat just in case.

Will one get dominate and hog things?

• Should I get two food bowls?
• Should I get two of each toy or can they generally share toys if there are enough variety?
• What about litter boxes? 1 or 2? I believe they can technically both fit comfortablely in one pan since they are small and I plan on getting the two holed hay feeder box.

A side question, does this store, binkbunny, have an actual brick and mortar store I can go to?

Thanks

[Sarita]

Most likely the bonded pair you adopt will have a tight bond especially if they are coming from SaveABunny.

You should only need one food bowl, one water bowl and one litter box per pair.

As for toys, that’s just hard to know, you’ll have to wait and see once you get them how they are about toys at all.

BinkyBunny only has an on-line store.

Looking forward to hearing more about your pair when you get them.

[mossling]

hamsters are solitary animals. it is very rare that they can live together peacefully after they reach sexual maturity. rabbits are social animals that enjoy the company of their own kind. while i haven’t yet bonded my pair, from everything i’ve read, they bond tightly and are pretty inseparable. i have spare cages and kennels and supplies for my entire horde, but i keep them around in case someone is sick or injured and needs to be kept quite.

[Beka27]

One large cat litterbox is fine for a pair, altho I use two medium size boxes because that means I don’t have to empty them as often. You want a minimum of 4×4 feet of space for them, not including levels. You shouldn’t need a second cage. If in a pinch, if they had to be separated, one could be put in a pet carrier briefly (for an hour or so) while you secured a second cage.

[mia]

Dwarf hamsters are social and can live in groups. In the wild robos, the kind I have, live in groups of 10 or so. It’s the larger, normal sized hamster breeds that are non-social. Have had a couple pairs who were great together and one pair who turned on each other in the middle of the night, though they were never great friends to begin with. I tried a makeshift separator but they ended up biting through and harming each other. Don’t want this to happen to the buns.

It was thinking about my hamsters that I decided on getting a pair of buns instead of a single. Though a human can have a close bond, I don’t think it matches the bonds these social creatures can create with each other. When one of my hamsters lost his mate, he mourned/went into depression for quite a few months.

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