I didn't know it wasn't safe to use pine! Thanks for letting me know. I haven't heard of carefresh, but I'll look for it.

tikeyas_mom, HE is a he, there are most definetely testies there

Its just that he has the symptoms there of Wet Tail but it seems odd that he would be infected with it even before I bought him ...

In general, how to hamsters behave? Emmett wasn't very social at all .. he always seemed nervous and bit my fingers a couple times as well. This is my first hamster so I don't know what to do or expect ..