Which is better, hamster or mouse?

1. Mice need to be kept in groups, but remember, mice multiply FAST. One litter can have 8+ babies and mice can mate again immediately after giving birth. So make sure what you know what you're doing. Female mice usually get along though they can fight. Male mice are more likely to fight and I would recommend that you keep him alone is a separate cage than the females.

Syrian hamsters (teddy bear, fancy bear, golden) are solitary and WILL fight to the death once they are grown. Dwarfs hamsters can live together if they have a big cage, but they have the potential to fight too.

I would recommend mice for living in groups

2. Both will be attractive to your cats. Unless you are positive that your cats won't be able to get to the hamsters or mice, I wouldn't get small pets. It's not fair to the animals

3. Mice are slightly easier, but both are fairly easy to breed.

4. Mice usually live around 2 years, though they can live to 3. Syrian hamsters usually live up to 3. Dwarf hamsters usually live around 2.

5. They are equally easy to care for.

6. Both would be fine as long as the tank is a 15 gallon or bigger.

Overall, I would recommend a pair of female mice.

Note: Make sure you completely think through the breeding idea before you do it. What do you plan on doing with the 8+ babies?

1) Syrian hamsters have to be separate, dwarf hamsters can stay in groups. Mice can be in groups.

2) It's a cat... It's not like human with preferences, if it can it will eat it... Which begs the question, how the f*ck does the cat get it, you must not be that responsible with them.

3) If you can't keep a couple without the cat eating them should you bother to breed, also a lot of breeder are actually quite sh*t so just don't bother breeding, ok?

4) Depends on the breed.

6) Aquariums aren't that great as they can have bad ventilation and rodents can get respiratory problems as it it... How is the cat getting in a f*cking aquarium?!

You sound like one of those people that just should not breed... Sorry.

Mice and hamster both can be kept in groups but just make sure if their is more than 2 males in a cage they will fight.

They both are attractive to cats because they move,they have a smell,and cats just think their toys.

Mice are defiantly easier to breed. I bought 2 at the store to breed for my snake and less than a week it had babies and they all kept multiplying that I just let most of them go in my field. Hamsters are pretty easy to breed to but if your not careful with any of them than they will mate with their mother,sisters and those babies will be born with problems.

My hamster lived 5 years but pet stores say they live up to 3 years and mice live up to 1-2 years. If they are treated right tho,then they'll live longer.

Their really shouldn't be much of a problem with any of them because if they have a cage with tunnels,then they have plenty to keep busy but they do need some attention.

I say the mice would be better in the aquarium because pet store typically want them to be in aquariums and that's what I had my mice in. Just make sure you have toys in their for them.

ok didnt you say in another question that all the pets you already had were in really bad condition? surely if thats the case i dont think it would be wise getting more pets as they could end up the same way

this is what you wrote about your pets

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I like animals VERY MUCH. So I bought HAMSTERS and GUINEA PIGS, but as I learn more and more about these pets, I discovered that they are not perfect or at least good for me. Here are the problems:

1. I live in the Philippines (South East Asia). This is an EXTREMELY BAD country. ALL pet stores here are EXTREMELY BAD-QUALITY and NONE are good-quality. There are ***ABSOLUTELY NO VETERINARIANS*** here. It's EXTREMELY DIRTY and POLLUTED here. Almost all people (except for me and my relatives!!!) here are poor, dumb, and do not 'care about'/'know anything about' about pets (those people are like those from Africa or India!!!).

2. Our house is EXTREMELY small, dirty, and bad. (Total size: Approximately 50 ft. long, 25 ft. wide; Indoor size: Approximately 25 ft. long, 20 ft. wide.) So my pets are in the garage (the garage has no door) and it's EXTREMELY dirty, dangerous and unhealthy (for pets), hot, and noisy there. It's so small that even if we clean it, it gets dirty after some time.

Our house was built more than 15 to 20 years ago. It was originally owned by my uncle and aunt, but now that they moved to America, they gave it to us (there is a total of 6 people in our house: Me [1], my Father [2], my Mother [3], my sister [4], plus 2 maids [6]).

Our house is also unsafe. The barbed wires on the fence and gate could easily be removed. The fence is made of weak cement and it can easily be destroyed. There are lots of thieves and drunk people.

3. We are busy VERY often. And ***my parents do NOT want to use much money just for pets.*** The nearest high-quality pet store takes 5 tiring hours of car ride, and it will be very tiring to go there. We can only go there maybe once or twice a month. There are nearer/closer pet stores (the nearest one takes only less than a minute of care ride, while some others will take roughly 1.2 hours), but they are EXTREMELY BAD-QUALITY.

4. Almost all people (except for me and my relatives!) in our country 'do not know much'/'do not care about' pets. They keep pets but they do not even know how to take care of these animals properly. They are abusing/neglecting/abandoning/being cruel to pets. They're careless, dumb, and harsh. They think pets are just things for entertainment -- WRONG!!! -- Pets are living animals and must be respected and given a healthy, happy and if possible, perfect life!

If you plan to breed them hamsters are better because more people want them so its easy to find them homes but hamsters are not social animals they like to be alone mice breed very fast but i think you need a middle ground on this one try Gerbils they are sweeter than hamsters and mice people like them they are social so they can be kept together and technically you never have to buy bedding for them just fill the cage up with anything paper (with no ink on it) or cardboard a Gerbil will make its own bedding within like a hour and its fun to watch them do it too and now you basically got free carefresh bedding

How does your cat keep killing them? You for one clearly need to look after them better first.

I'm sure both breed like crazy and both need more than one for company.

I personally dislike mice cause they stink and are too small for me.

I don't mean to come off as mean or rude but if you can't even keep them alive, breeding them isn't right for you if you clearly just want to make money off them. I've had rats for years and though I'm interested, I'm too scared to breed them.

You need to think ahead because you will need atleast 3 cages since you'll need to keep male and female seperate and then most likely have another one for when the babies grow old enough to be away from their mother.

I'm sure if you cat somehow keeps killing your hampsters, you have to find a way to stop that because theres no point in getting either pet if you don't sort out the cat problem

Considering you curcumstances, I would definetly recomend the hampster, they live much long, and breed MUCH easier. Also, cats are attracted to both, my cat killed 2 of my 3 mice this morning :'( Hampsters do tend to have less of an attraction to cats then mice do, but both are liable to become dinner... I would recomend to use the aquarium, and keep is securely covered!

This is not mean or rude, it is the truth - stop buying animals if you know your cat is going to kill them. That is sick.

Wait until you have a 100% secure spot, like a cat-proof room (one it cannot get in to) and then decide what type of rodent you want.