Caring for Small Animals

Small animals are pretty popular pets for younger kids. Think about it small animals, or rather small mammal, pets include a wide variety of pets such as hamsters, gerbils, mice, rats, guinea pigs, rabbits, ferrets, chinchillas, degus, hedgehogs, sugar gliders, and more. Ther are so many different small animal pets, that it's a wonder that they're not the most popular pet amongst young childrens.

The only concern that I have is for hte parents that show up at the pet store and purchase whatever pet the pet store employee says would be good and with whatever accessories and housing they recommend.

Not all pet store employees know what they're talking about, so I can stress enough, do your research first!

But anyway, if you want more information, check out
Caring for Small Animals: Hamsters, Mice, Rats, & Chinchillas
Best Pets for Small Children

Best Pets for Small Children

So here is one of my submissions for the 'pets' topic a few days back. This hub won me best hub of the day. :-D

Best Pets for Small Children

If you have any suggestions of other good pets for children, leave me a comment and let me know your suggestions.

Hamsters

Hamsters are fairly simple to care for. They are one of the most common small animal pets for children, but are they truly one of the better pets for children? Well, that's for you to decide. I'm here to give you information about them in hopes to help in any way that I can.

Hamsters are fairly simple to care for, as I've already mentioned. Because they are one of the smaller furry pets, they require smaller cages. A 10 gallon cage will suffice for one Syrian hamster or 2 dwarf hamsters.

The one good thing about hamsters is that for the most part, they are pretty robust and healthy critters. They can succumb to illness, but the most common will include wet tail, abscesses, diarrhea, and respiratory illnesses.

Caring for Hamsters

Hamsters are a popular pet these days amongs both apartment dwellers and house dwellers. Many younger children want hamsters. They want to see them running throughout their room in the translucent ball. Hamsters do require a little work. You can't just sit and watch them take care of themselves. By reading Caring For Hamsters you can go see the basics to taking care of a pet hamster. The article discusses diet, behaviors, temperament, and housing.

But when it comes to hamsters there is one thing you should definately be aware of, and that's wet-tail, which is similar to diarrhea. It is caused by stress. Reading Hamsters With Wet-tail, you can find out what you can do to help a hamster with wet-tail, and what you can to do try to prevent your hamster from getting wet-tail.

Animals

I have too many... Ha... Well, it's true.

I have had dogs all my life. My experience with dogs ranges from volunteering weekly for 5 plus years are various dog rescues. Dog training for over a year. And just plain personal experiences.

As for my experience with reptiles; I have been researching reptiles for over 7 years, and have owned them for over 4. I have a small hobby business breeding leopard geckos, african fat tail geckos, and crested geckos. goreptiles.com

My experience with small and furry animals goes so far as 10 years off and on hands on experience and research. I was the certified specialist for a retail petstore, as well.

The list of my zoo inludes:

REPTILES

• 12 leopard geckos
• 5 african fat tail geckos
• 2 crested geckos
• 2 bearded dragons
• 1 ball python

SMALL AND FURRY

• 3 rats
• 2 chinchillas
• 1 hamster
• 1 mouse

DOGS

• 1 yorkie (mine)
• 1 pit bull (mine)
• 1 mutt: hound/heinz 57 dog (partially mine)
• 1 dalmatian (cute dog at the house)
• 1 st bernard/collie mix (my mother's)

Please take everything written in this blog as personal experiences unless otherwise said.