Do hamsters get hiccups?

[Mady/Sophiemom]

She is laying on the couch sleeping, and all of a sudden starts moving?? twitching??, about 6-7 times, wakes up yawns really big, and now seems fine.

I thought it looked like hiccups--DH is ready to run her to the ER.

 

[donald&daisy]

I have no hamster experience, but I was worred and googled it. This is what I came up with:
Hamster Hiccups:
If you’ve noticed that your hamster sometimes jerks and squeaks, don’t be worried. They just have hiccups. You can treat it the same way humans do, by giving it water to drink. Just hold their water bottle in front of them and encourage them to drink. If they don’t want to, then just leave them alone. The hiccups will go away with or without water, but drinking will make it go away almost immediately.

 

[Mady/Sophiemom]

Thanks for looking it up. How sweet.

I should have just googled, instead of trying to look it up in the book we have.

 

[weregoingtodw]

I remember when my gerbil had "hiccups". We ended up with 8 new gerbilettes running around!

 

[Mady/Sophiemom]

I remember when my gerbil had "hiccups". We ended up with 8 new gerbilettes running around!

Oh my, hadn't thought of that. But I just commented on how much she has grown, in the month and 1/2 since we got her. How long are they pregnant?

 

[Mady/Sophiemom]

Oh my, hadn't thought of that. But I just commented on how much she has grown, in the month and 1/2 since we got her. How long are they pregnant?

Just googled my own question. Apparently they are only pregnant for 16 days. We are in the clear on that one.

 

[weregoingtodw]

Yeah... let's just say, don't believe the pet store when they tell you that you got two girls!

 

[chisnpeke]

We got a hamster and not even a month later it had TEN babies! The pet store we got her from wouldn't take the babies back!! They said they only took theirs from "reputable" breeders. Needless to say they went out of business sometime later on. This hamster ATE two of her babies and we finally were able to sell most of them to another pet store (we kept two of them).