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Training Your Pet Hamster | 
 enlarge | Authors: Gerry Bucsis, Barbara Somerville
Brand: Barrons Books
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 140650
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 96
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 6.8 x 0.3
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MPN: 027011020131
ISBN: 0764120131
Dewey Decimal Number: 636.9356
UPC: 027011020131
EAN: 9780764120138
ASIN: 0764120131
Publication Date: October 15, 2002
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Product Description
If you already own a pet hamster or plan to get one, you?ve already discovered that hamsters are fascinating and intelligent creatures. This book will advise you on virtually all aspects of caging, feeding, training, and general hamster care. You?ll find lots of do-it-yourself ideas on ways to improve commercially available pet enclosures plus specific hamster-training instructions. Once owners teach their hamster to welcome their touch, training can go on to include many games with widely available cage toys, as well as litter training, and even leash-walking. Titles in this series will be much appreciated by owners who don't know how to get started training caged pets, but want to learn. Correct training begins with having the right kind of housing and equipment, then getting all members of the family acquainted with the newly arrived animal. Training Your Pet books feature full-color photos on nearly every page, tips for hassle-free travel with a pet, advice on managing behavior problems, and a selection of games that owners can teach their pets to play.
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 good overall pet book April 3, 2007
my daughter read everything she could get her hands on about hamsters. this book actually gave her some new ideas that other books didn't cover. no, you can't train your hamster to fetch or roll over, but thru consistancey and handling, they are somewhat "trainable".
Excellent January 9, 2007
Excellent product , found it very useful and easy to read and understand , my daughter used it with ease.
 I don't reccomend this book. January 21, 2004
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
I would have given the book a lower rating but it was only bad because it was so bland. The author assumes that the reader is a seven-year-old and about 20% of the book is baby-talk. It doesn't go into much detail about training. In fact, The Hamster Handbook by Patricia Bartlett (also sold at amazon) goes into as much detail about training a hamster. This book doesn't include much other information about hamsters other than obvious things and is mostly vague. I don't recommend this book, but highly recommend the Hamster Handbook.
Great book for young hamster owners - buy it before the pet! December 29, 2003
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
This book is written mostly for young teenagers and will be great at interesting them in something not electronic!pNo offense to Nintendo or Microsoft, but there really is life beyond the cursor!pI am one of very few in Egypt who bothers owning pets - I have a hamster, an African Grey Parrot (see my reviews on Keeping African Grey Parrots, and of The African Grey Parrot Handbook), plus two lovebirds, two cockatiels, two dogs, one cat and four tortoises. I thus have found Amazon a great source for pet keeping books.pAnother good book for hamster enthusiasts is HAMSTERS, A COMPLETE PET OWNER'S MANUAL. I have, though, chosen TRAINING YOUR PET HAMSTER as the must-have. Buy it before you get or give the pet hamster!
Pretty Standard November 9, 2003
16 out of 16 found this review helpful
This is a pretty standard hamster care book. The writing style often gets a bit insipid, but the information is gotten out.pFor beginners, they'll get basic information.pThe title is misleading as hamster training isn't the focus of the book. There is a little on the idea of clicker training and conditioned response, but this part is very thin.pIn fact the book goes more in depth on the author's personal preferences for cages. They laud Crittertrail and SAM set-ups glossing over the cons of using these types (like these are easy for a Hamster to escape from), while presenting very minor disadvantages as major ones in other set-ups like 10 gallon aquariums (like cleaning it)or wire cages (can't use tubes). I'm afraid that having to take a bit of effort to hose a cage down, or providing alternative tunnelling toys are nothing compared to ESCAPING!pThey do not mention how much cage room a hamster actually needs. If they had this would discount their favorite cages.pStill, that would only make this a 4-star book and I gave it 3.pThis is because when going over the information for choosing a hamster, they don't have their priorities straight. When talking about going to a breeder they list that breeders have breeds and coat colors not available at pet shops as the first reason. Then almost as an afterthought tag on a sentence that the hamsters would be hand tamed and used to humans. pAs someone who appreciates an animal for themselves this kind of attitude is extremely elitist and snobby. As if an animal's worth is only in its looks and the joy in having it is to show off that rare color or breed.pIn addition, much of what is said is taken off verbatim from various Internet sites. Based on the copyright dates of the book and update information on the websites I know it's not the other way around.pDespite this, this would be a pretty basic book to get if you are thinking of owning a hamster. However, I would recommend the Hamtaro Hamster Care Guide instead.
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