DID YOU KNOW? Wee Companion Facts

I figure most of you know these things, but I found them on the Cochrane Humane Society website, and thought I would pass them along.

DID YOU KNOW?

Wee Companion Facts

• Rabbits can live for 5 to 10 years

• Rabbits can be litter trained

• A rabbit’s teeth will continue to grow throughout its life - hence the need to
chew

• Hamsters and gerbils live for about 2 -3 years

• Hamsters like to be busy and enjoy hamster wheels, mazes, etc.

• Gerbils are very social animals and enjoy a companion

• Hamsters are typically solitary pets

• The word Hamster comes from the German word Hamstern which means “to hoard”

Awesome facts!:D I knew all the rabbit ones;) but I never knew some of the hamster and gerbil ones, very cool facts about them:)

Thanks for sharing!

I want to comment on the hamster one about them being solitary the fact was leanign towards syrian hamsters. Dwarf hamsters often can live in pairs or groups.

Interesting facts there Catty1......especially where the name hamster comes from...figures really, they love to stuff their pouches and then hide it all away somewhere!!

I knew all the bunny stuff - and Miss Hoppy is already ten years old, and doing well, so more than ten years is possible!

Karen - is it time for some more updated pictures of Miss Hoppy?!

I wnated to add to the companion facts list:)

Did you know that rabbits can get pregnant while they are pregnant?

It's a pretty interesting fact to know, specially when you are trying to breed a rabbit.

Really?? Wow..I didn't know that was possible! Just as well that doesn't happen to us humans!!

Hehe my gerbil, Valintine, is 4 1/2 and her sister ((and her companion)) died about a year ago. :(

R.I.P. Loretta