Hamsters don't just suffer from cages and bedding, yes i get what your saying but there is also pet stores that may not take care of them well, or actual owners that don't treat them well. I'm a hammy Mom i spoil my hammys,and i agree that all of them deserve the best of the best because they absolutely do. Unfortunately we can't save all of them but maybe we should encourage more things people that don't do well with them, on what they should do with them. I know so many people that have them and don't deserve to have them like keeping them in there cages all the time and not putting them in there balls or not paying attention to them. I think that pet stores need to be more stricter on the people who go to buy them or any other animal for that matter and see how intrested they really are and how caring and loving they are towards them. Make them take a paper survey on how well they take care of there other pets. I do agree others need to be more serious about it but lets face it, how are we going to start this? I complain to petsmart about how they don't even know the hammies birthday or genetics or any other animals, and guess what answer i get and remember this is from the store manager too, she says that they have no idea. And then do they have any idea what kind of environment there animals come from with the breeders that sell them to the stores? I know that Arizona's getting in trouble from breeders mistreating the animals and not taking care of them at all leaving them to starve in there own waste, that's why you see hamsters or any other animal sick sometimes. The petsmart in American Fork Utah gets there hamsters from California though but i don't know for sure if the breeder there is even good or not because i see sick hammies all the time there too.
Yes I see how pet stores/the owner can mistreat the hammies to. The thing is that this is something that simply can't be fixed. The only way to really educate lots of people of hamster care is making a forum/really good hamster care book or youtub channel... which is something that many people can't do. This is why I'm manly focusing on supplies. One forum can't completely get rid of mills but we can get rid of a certain type of small cage if we all work together.
