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Fancy Russian Dwarf Hamster 101

April 22, 2013 By Sarah Yee 10 Comments

You’ve probably heard or seen the term “fancy russian dwarf hamster” especially if you do your shopping at pet stores like PetSmart. Fancy Russian dwarf hamsters are not a different species of dwarf hamsters. Rather, they are just a marketing term used to described Russian dwarf hamsters (sometimes also referred to as Siberian hamsters) that are not the normal or Agouti color (black-brown with a dark grey stripe) or have different coat-types or patterns. There are only two species of Russian dwarf hamsters — the Campbell’s dwarf hamster and the Winter White dwarf hamster — and they are able to interbreed. A fancy Russian dwarf hamster is usually one of these species (more commonly the Campbell’s dwarf hamster as it comes in more colors) or a hybrid of the two.

Fancy Russian Dwarf Hamster Colors and Patterns

Below are some pictures of different colors of fancy Russian dwarf hamsters. Most of these are Campbell’s dwarf hamsters unless they are specifically referred to as Winter White. However, it is difficult to identify the actual species because of a lot of crossbreeding so some of these hamsters may be hybrids. You probably won’t know for sure unless you got the hamster from a breeder who knows exactly the genetic lines of her stock.

Note: This is not the full list of available “fancy” russian dwarf hamster colors and patterns, for a more complete table but without pictures, see this. Where the owner has labeled a hamster, we’ll use the species provided. Otherwise, it won’t be specified.

Black Dwarf Hamster

Source: this olx.sg sale listing

Opal Campbell’s Dwarf Hamster

Source: Miss Shari on Flickr

Lilac Dwarf Hamster

Source: Miss Shari on Flickr

Pearl Winter White

Source: Wikimedia Commons Jpbarrass at the English language Wikipedia [GFDL (www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html), GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) or CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)], from Wikimedia Commons

Pearl Puddings (Hybrids)

Source: Sean’s Mandarin/Pudding Blog

Mottled (Pattern) Campbell’s Dwarf Hamster

Source: Dwarf Hamsters as Pets

Cute Hamster Pictures #1 – Sleeping Hamsters

April 16, 2013 By Sarah Yee Leave a Comment

This is the first in our Cute Hamster Pictures series. ~~Each week~~, we round up our cutest hamster pictures and consolidate them on the blog for you to see. In the future, we may add pictures from other sources but for the first in our series of hamster pictures, we’ll be super biased and only use those of our own dwarf hamsters ^_^

This week’s cute hamster pictures feature sleeping dwarf hamsters. I’ve been taking photos of both my dwarf hamsters, Ichigo and Blueberry, and I noticed Ichigo in various states of sleep in most of them. I wasn’t deliberately looking to take photos of him sleeping, it just happened!

Cute Hamster Pictures – Sleeping Dwarf Hamsters

Here’s Ichigo asleep on his pink wheel stand.

Here, he’s sleeping with his belly up.

Here’s a photo of Ichigo the dwarf hamster sleeping like a baby.

Both of them are kind of sleepy in this one. Actually, that’s just Blueberry. Ichigo is already asleep.

And finally, here’s both of them snuggled up in their bath tub.

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