You can teach tricks to a hamster.If you have a good relationship with your hamster, you can easily teach it how to stand, jump, and do circles.Running an obstacle course is a great way to get your hamster to run.
Step 1: Pick up your pet and build a bond.
Building a bond with a hamster is the first step in teaching tricks.When you first get a hamster, spend some time with it to get used to it.Pick your hamster up out of its cage and let it crawl up and down your arms.While talking to your hamster, gently pet it with 1 or 2 fingers on its back.If your hamster doesn't like being held, leave it in its cage and spend more time with it.While talking to it, give it treats.Try to pet your hamster again after a few days of doing this.It can take a while for your hamster to get used to you.
Step 2: Treat your hamster to treats that he likes.
hamsters are very focused on food.Sunflower seeds are a favorite treat, but they can be high in calories so try to use them less.While bonding with your hamster, offer it different treats to find its favorite one.If your hamster likes a treat, it will eat it quickly and look for more.Your hamster will not finish a treat if it doesn't like it.Some hamsters like a piece of raw carrot, while others prefer a grain treat.Try these treats for your hamster.
Step 3: You can teach stand by holding a treat over your hamsters head.
One of the easiest commands to start with is stand.Put your treat over your hamster's head and say "stand" as you do this.Your hamster will get up on its hind legs to get closer to the treat.Give your hamster time to learn the trick while you teach it.Get your hamster to rise on its legs.Add your command when it is used to standing.Your hamster did a great job and you should give it a lot of praise.
Step 4: Give the treat as soon as your hamster is standing.
softly.If your hamster does not stand, don't give it a treat.It may not be hungry if your hamster doesn't stand at all and you've been waiting for it.If you want to try again, put the treat away.If your hamster doesn't respond when you try several times in a day, try a different treat.
Step 5: For 1-2 weeks, work on one command at a time and repeat it three times a day.
It will take a week or two to learn most tricks.When your hamster seems to have mastered the stand trick, you should keep doing it every day.Try to hold your fingers above the hamster's head without a treat.If you say stand, your hamster will know the stand trick.Give it a treat for being standing.
Step 6: Move the treat up to teach jumping.
You can try to teach your hamster to jump once it has mastered stand.If you want to do the jump trick, hold the treat a bit higher.If your hamster tries to jump after the treat when you move it, give it immediately and say, "good!"Then try again.Put the treat away if your hamster does not jump the second time.
Step 7: You can teach kids to jump through a hoop with a treat.
Some hamsters are better at jumping through a hoop because there is an object they have to get over.You can make a hoop from a thin plastic circle, a wide metal or plastic bracelet, or a stretchy spiral bracelet.Hold the hoop in front of the hamster and hold the treat on the other side.While holding the treat, say "jump through the hoop" or "simply jump."If your hamster goes through the hoop, you should give it a treat immediately.If it's easy to hold it low in front of your hamster, you can move it up a little.The hoop should be wide enough for the hamster to easily get through.If your hamster won't jump through the hoop at first, give it a treat for standing.Try the trick again.Put the treat away if it doesn't jump.
Step 8: If you want to teach do circles, hold a treat above your hamster and move it in circles.
Do circles is a more advanced trick that you can try.If your hamster does a circle, give it the treat immediately and say "good", if it doesn't.Do circles again.Put the treat away and try again later.
Step 9: Building blocks or jars can be used for jumps.
Legos or wooden building blocks can be used to build jumps.cylinder food jars can be used for your hamster to scramble over.The obstacle course will be set up when you place some jumps on the floor.If the jumps are too high, your hamster will be tempted to run around them instead of over them.Lower the blocks if it struggles to get over your jumps.If you want to start with narrower jars, try olive jars.
Step 10: There are tunnels made from toilet paper rolls.
Hamsters like to run through tunnels.toilet paper, paper towel rolls, pre-made hamster tunnels, and bendy tunnels can be used.Place the tunnels between the jumps you have made in the area you are building your obstacle course.hamsters squeeze through a tunnel that appears to narrow for themThey like to do this.It's a good idea to start with tunnels that are the width of toilet paper rolls.
Step 11: A wooden triangle and plank are needed.
Your hamster will love running up and down the see-saw.You can use a thin wooden plank that is about 15 cm wide for your hamster's body.Place the plank on a triangular wooden block so that the down end is facing the direction that your hamster will come from in the obstacle course.For the best results, use a triangular block that is the same width as your plank.The plank could tip off the edge of the triangle if it was too thin.
Step 12: Stick with it if you arrange your obstacles in a certain order.
Put your obstacles in order that you think your hamster will enjoy.You want to keep the obstacles the same until the hamster learns to run the course on its own.
Step 13: To make the hamster run in order, build walls around the course.
Use cardboard or building blocks to build a 6 inch (15 cm) high wall around your obstacles.Put them close to the obstacles so that your hamster won't try to complete it.A sturdy wall should be created by large building blocks.Use large Legos for the best results.You may have to bend the cardboard to get it to stand up, or glue the supports onto the outside using other pieces of leaning cardboard.
Step 14: Move a treat in front of the hamster.
Once the obstacles and walls are set, bring your hamster to the beginning of the course and set it down.Hold your treat out in front of the hamster until it completes the first obstacle.Continue holding the treat in front of your hamster, moving it along the obstacle course as he completes it.The treat needs to be held on the far side of the tunnel so the hamster can get to it.Continue moving the treat in front of it until your hamster is able to complete the obstacle, if it becomes confused and refuses to do so.Place your hamster at the beginning of the obstacles to see if it can complete them.If it does, give it the treat and then return your hamster to its cage to try again.
Step 15: The treat should be left at the end of the course.
Place a treat at the end of the course if your hamster can run the entire course on its own.If the hamster needs you to help it navigate the course, just hold a treat and use your fingers.Sometimes a hamster will remember how to do the course and run it quickly without needing you to help it, because it remembers there is a treat at the end.Allow your hamster to do this many times before changing the order of the obstacle course.