• Oats (preferable crusshed, as whole and clipped may cause abcess in their pouches)
• Wheat (rich in Vitamin E)
• Maize (basicaly corn, should be included only in small amounts)
• Pelleted foods (avoid any not for hamsters! compounded food and balanced amounts of food and vitamins)
• Sunflower seeds (Also rich in Vitamin E and oil, most hamsters if allowed will greatly over eat and cause themselves damage by becoming overweight and in some cases too hot)
• Peanuts (also will be over eaten and cause hamster to smell, see notes for Sunflowers)
• Biscuits (Vitakraft and other companies make quite a few different treats in form of biscuits useful food item that are important to give them something hard to chew on)
• Lettuce (BE CAREFUL, in excess can and does cause a rather dangerous liver complaint. useful in SMALL amounts)
• Cabbage, etc. (wide family of green vegetables; cury kale.. again as with lettuce SMALL amounts)
• Root Crops (wide variety of items; carrots -can do no harm, celery, apples, bean sprouts, sweet oranges, banana, avocado, pear and parsely, as well as a variety of nuts)
  The above items should be mixed together to make a balanced diet, the seeds and small pellets are often sold in hamster food bags, you can also get hamster blocks which are the foods mixed together and is good to keep them from being selective and also to make sure they get a balanced diet and something hard to chew one, they will still need freash vedgies/fruits.
  
• Bugs/MEAT (SMALL amonts of cooked meat (such as Chicken) or insects such as mealworms, this is just as additional tidbit, not part of regular diet)

We finnaly got our Micro hamster on Dec 6th 1998, she is about 2 months old and her fur is a greyish-tan collor. Hamue [Hamu = Japanese for Hamster] Lives in a Habitrail cage called a "Safari". Her cage come with a "pin house" which is elevated above the cage floor and has a small ladder to access it, Hamue has already made a little nest up there! It also has a neat wheel made of durable plastic with no metal holes so Hamue tiny legs wont get caught. The cage has to "windows" that you can use to had tubes or other Habitrial toys, and a litter gaurd at the bottow.
We also bought Hamue a salt lick, two bowls [water/food] and a very cute little litter box, which Hamue isn't using as a litter but as a place to take dust baths!! She has both mixed seeds and hamster pelets for food, and yesterday got an orange slice os a treat.
She is fairly friendly, although the second day when I gave her a sunflower seed she actually sat up on her hind legs and scratched at me, last night however she climbed into my hands and seemed very happy....maybe that orange slice is working?? Hamue is extremly cute!! She also has a TP tube [TP =tolite paper] to play with, and enjoys runing in and out of it and pushing it around. She loves to run in her wheele.
Stay Tuned for some images of Hamue soon!! Text below is from before we got Hamue, take a look at what a Micro Hamster looks like.

Micro Hamster is the name used by the pet shops, these little guys are more commonly called Campbell Russian or Dwarf hamsters. They are very tiny and look like little mice without tails. We are planing on getting one or two at some point when we move. If you have any FAQ's or tips about looking after Micro's please E-mail us!! Enjoy.

We are going to get a little hamster very soon now, next week or the week after [Nov 30th]!!
We got all our supplies and even bought a newer cage called a "Safari" which has a shaving gaurd, it's really neat!! Has a nice wheel and built in "clud house".

"Hamu" and "Mirco"