help me!

i have a dog, and he is cute but sometimes aggresive. i am getting a hamster for my birthday. will my dog eat the hamster or leave it alone? i put it up on a place he couldnt reach. is it good enough?

Some dogs are more likely to go hamster munching than others. Just be sure that the hamster cage is somewhere the dog can’t get to it. Think like a dog. Is there a chair or a bed nearby he can use to get up on the bookcase to the hamster cage? Dogs can be very creative if they really want something.

My current dog is so predatory she’d move heaven and earth to get to any hamsters no matter where they were. On the other hand, some dogs aren’t necessarily predatory but that still doesn’t make your hamsters safe. Many years back I had a bull terrier who paid very little attention to the hamsters. Maybe he’d lie on the bed very relaxed and watch them go around in their exercise wheel—almost like he was watching a boring TV show. He really didn’t react to them until I would walk over to the cage, talk to them, pet them, whatever. Then he’d go ballistic! So with him it wasn’t predatory—it was sheer jealousy! (Incidentally, he behaved quite the same with other dogs…didn’t get snotty unless he thought you were spending too much time with the other dog and ignoring him.)