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I had a lovely Hamster as a child. I think they only have a life expectancy of a couple of years so it’ll be a proper introduction to mortality too.

Mine was a long- haired grey Syrian hamster with black eyes, fur which looked like a rug behind him and massive testicles. They will try to pull anything near their cage in and chew it (towels and spider plants being particular favourites of mine until I moved him far enough away. He loved his exercise wheel but it made an awful noise at night when he was running on it.

As for taking up a lot of space, nah - complain when you have to buy a 4000 sq ft house to accommodate your cats

Yeah, we got a hamster last christmas - funny enough also named Hammy. She’s been pretty easy so far though i don’t really get too involved - it’s definitely shown me i have no real interest in having pets!

We bought the cage and a load of parameters used, including a wheel. It was very noisy, so have now bought a silent one. All you can hear is the click click of his nails when he's running in it.

https://amzn.eu/d/0cfZiCAy

When we had a hamster many moons ago we had a wheel like this, always seemed more natural than a vertical one to me and the hamster loved it