Fucking people and their need to control the weight of their pets without ever stopping to wonder if it's necessary or healthy.
NEVER FUCKING RESTRICT RODENT FOOD INTAKE TO MAKE THEM LOSE WEIGHT. These creatures are survivors! You are pressing all sorts of "you will die" psychological triggers for your rodent friend! They will be incredibly stressed by this!
Hamsters especially. If i catch you putting a hamster on a diet i am going to sous vide your ass in order to get them back to a healthy place with spare food. Hamsters need a hoard. They need it like you or I need space to ourselves. Without a hoard, if they get hungry, it triggers migratory instinct and they will stress themselves to madness trying to escape.
If you *must* control their weight, reconsider their diet. Reduce sugar, possibly carbohydrates as well. Protein and fats are never the issue in modern packet food. . . But really you don't need to because spare fat is necessary if they get sick- that pudge today is an extra day they might survive if they get sick and can't eat.
Oh, and don't feed them Oxbow mixes. They can't digest it because they can't digest hay. It's great for weight loss becuase hamsters get *nothing* from eating it, to the point it can lead to starvation. I have no idea why vets reccomend it aside from probably kickbacks but none of you deserve to see a hamster slowly waste away to death despite eating.
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