How many different breeds of hamster are there?
I sadly only know five, Syrian, Teddy Bear, Panda Bear, Chinese, and Dwarf. Can list a few other than those ones?
I said I only KNOW five. I didn’t say that there were ONLY five.
Ones available as pets….
Syrian – also called teddy bear, panda bear, etc – those are marketing gimmicks for different colours and hair lengths of the Syrian hamsters (sometimes also called Golden) – these are your “normal” sized hamsters. (Normal sized because this used to be the only type available as a pet).
The four dwarf species:
Winter White
Campbells – you’ll often see gimmicky names such as “blueberry” and “blackberry” for different colours of these
Robovorski’s – these are the REALLY small ones – and way to fast for me, but they are cute!
Chinese – these are the “mouse-like” hamsters that have a little bit more of a tail
hamsteriffic.com will have good information about the differences of these species.
There ARE other species of hamsters that aren’t available in the pet market. The 5 above are the only ones available as pets; you’ll hear/see numerous names for them. Pet stores and breeders looking to make a buck love to create names that differentiate one from another so that they can charge you more for the cool hamster colour of the week.
Unfortunately, this results in many folks not having a clue what they really own. Many folks own a “russian hamster” – its probably a winter white or a campbells – they aren’t the same creature and you should know what you have since different health issues are common in each and inadvertantly creating a hybrid cross can be disastrous.
Don’t trust pet store labels any more than their gender identification. Learn what they look like before purchase, so you know what you’re buying despite what the stores signs and staff say it is.
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