Strong Brew Hamstery

Strong Brew Hamstery Strong Brew is a hamstery devoted to producing quality hamsters in health, size and temperament. As such, we pick our hamsters carefully.

We are located in the GTA, however our hamsters are all over Ontario and some of the USA. Strong Brew Hamstery aims to produce healthy, well-tempered hamsters. Hamsters with good health, composition, and personality are chosen to be bred. Hamsters that do not meet our strict standard are kept here as pets or are sold as pets only, and should not be bred. We sometimes use new blood to increase the

quality of our pups and may not have a full lineage on some litters. Strong Brew Hamstery’s overarching goal is to produce healthy, well-tempered hamsters in an assortment of colours that adhere to NHC and CHA standards. We follow the IHANA and OHC Codes of Ethics set forth, and will be showing this year. One half of the SBH team is the President of the Ontario Hamster Club, and is working on becoming a certified judge. We have relationships with other breeders all over the world. Strong Brew Hamstery hamsters are first and foremost beloved pets and are treated with respect, love, kindness and as friends. Any pup bred in this hamstery is welcome back should their owner not be able to care for the pup. Adoptees are encouraged to stay in contact with Strong Brew Hamstery through our email, page, or website. We are happy to answer any questions about our hamsters, and aid owners to the best of our ability. For more information on adopting head to our website: strongbrew.ca/adoption

Some of you are so clever, so yes! Good news number two is Miss aka Klarä aka Drava gave birth on October 3rd to a go...
10/11/2025

Some of you are so clever, so yes! Good news number two is Miss aka Klarä aka Drava gave birth on October 3rd to a good sized litter! This litter is much anticipated and I have been breeding Klarä since July so I'm relieved she's finally found a hamster worthy of her love.

Papa is also , studly brick that he is. Klarä and her pups are doing really well. She has a bigger litter than Thresher but still a very average size. No double digits here lol.

I've been dying for an IKEA themed litter since we had Lingonberry, so these guys are the ! Drop your favourite IKEA names in the comments for suggestions.

The best part about double litter fun time is combined pup bins, which I think will be necessary because I do believe we have a lone pup of one s*x with Thresher 🥲🤣 hopefully they all become best of friends.

Yay Big Autumn Blowout!

On Monday, September 29th, and Zoisite welcomed a small litter of pups! They arrived mid afternoon and momma Thresh ha...
10/10/2025

On Monday, September 29th, and Zoisite welcomed a small litter of pups! They arrived mid afternoon and momma Thresh has been doing amazingly since. When she was introduced in her litter someone suggested a sharks theme for her down the road so here we go!!!

These pups will hopefully have their eyes open soon and be ready to meet you all. I'm excited to get to know them too!

I also, finally, got through emails and applications. Whoop! Thanks for your patience friends.

Momma with the Wind is looking for a new retirement home! She was born April 4th, 2025 making her just freshly 6 month...
10/06/2025

Momma with the Wind is looking for a new retirement home! She was born April 4th, 2025 making her just freshly 6 months old. She is a yellow short hair and has such a dense and wonderful coat.

Tarra is super friendly and food motivated. She loves attention, she loves adventure, and she LOVES FOOD. Kale is a favourite but really any food is great. She is a pretty motivated runner, she loves to build burrows and she's the first to come out when we say hello. While Splat (her momma) was far more temperamental than Tarragone, Tarra can still be a little fiesty at times. For that reason she would do better with a family who has older children (especially since she will taste fingers that smell like snacks).

Other than that, she is a fantastic hamster. She loves to play. She would love a large enclosure with tons of stimulation. She's big into chewing but has always been respectful of what she chews on. Lots of variety would be key for her though and she loves textures and toys. She does love to burrow but isn't as much of a mole as Cardi.

If Tarragone sounds like the perfect hamster to join your family please DM or email me [email protected] she's ready to live up the rest of her life in luxury and while I will be so sad to see her go (and Pebble too!) I know she truly deserves to be spoiled rotten. 💗

I am behind, and I'm going to need a wee bit of grace and patience from all. I still haven't struck a perfect balance of...
10/06/2025

I am behind, and I'm going to need a wee bit of grace and patience from all. I still haven't struck a perfect balance of handling the physical labour and the digital labour (ie. Emails and social media) of running the Hamstery.

I am behind with emails and applications. I promise they're on my radar and knowing they're so backed up provided immense anxiety to me. I feel bad not getting to people expediently. I will ALWAYS reply though. I also need to update the website. We have some glitches with the front page coding at the moment I'm not sure how to fix but the side updates aren't currently working.

I need to clean out several enclosures. I need to make new batches of food mix. I need to clean and organize the hamster room.

Ideally, I need to take an entire day to just make some changes to the digital SBH process and workflow to improve. I'm hoping that will help but I need to work out how to do that into my schedule.

Anyways. In the meantime I really appreciate your patience. I know I am like a broken record and I feel really badly for that but I'm trying my best. Working full time, having a toddler, and the physical labour are my glass balls, and alas, the digital portion is the rubber ball I need to drop and try my best to pickup when I can.

Love you guys. 💗

10/04/2025

Thanks for all your kind words about Hubie. We miss him loads. I also have updates about Miss who also saw on Thursday. If you remember, she seemed or have a mild vaginal prolapse and we intended to try surgery to attempt to fix it.

Well, good news! It wasn't a prolapse but instead was a teeny tiny little cyst. We opted to send it off for culturing and to find more information out about it - both for her but for all the hams. I'm so relieved that she did not have a prolapse and will be just fine. 🥹

As you can see she feels just fine and is recovering amazingly. She is full of rage at being in a hospital bin (I need to move her out tonight!) but otherwise is doing amazing. So so so relieved.

We should know more in about a week and then can go from there. We should also by then be able to share two exciting updates with you all 👀.

This morning we said goodbye to with the help of our vet team at . He had slowed down a lot the last week and the past...
10/02/2025

This morning we said goodbye to with the help of our vet team at . He had slowed down a lot the last week and the past couple of days was starting to really struggle. I knew it was time to say goodbye, even if he insisted on being strong until the end. Stubborn, wonderful boy.

Hubert was born at in May of 2023 and came to us in July 2023. I remember being so so excited to meet him, and the drive down to get him while pregnant was a fun highlight 😂. It was instant love. Hubie loved napping on my belly and honestly was just so so sweet. I feel very honoured that Jessica trusted me with him, and was even more thrilled when it turned out he did not carry rust and could help me with my rex goals.

Hubie was one of the few hamsters to stay here while Pebble was born, and in her newborn days. He is just such a sweet, agreeable hamster who never caused a fuss. He loved flax sprays and cookies. He did however love to pretend to be dead, something that happened more and more in his last few weeks. I did twice daily live checks and sometimes he would sleep so soundly I couldn't see him breathing and I'd pick him up and he wouldn't rouse. When he'd finally wake up, he'd look at me like I was a complete moron. Couldn't I see he was having a nice dream?!

Hubie had a couple litters here at SBH and lives on in his wonderful pups, grandpups and now great grandpups. I'm so glad I have the honour of including his legacy in my lines.

Sweet dreams Hubert. You are so loved and will be greatly missed. Thank you for all your curly wurly kisses, and for giving me a few extra grey hairs. Say hello to everyone at SBH Meadows. I love you Hubie! Sleep tight. 💗

I ended up opting to keep as Goos is just a Silly Goos and too busy! So with that our selection process for is under...
09/30/2025

I ended up opting to keep as Goos is just a Silly Goos and too busy! So with that our selection process for is underway. I got to some emails and applications yesterday but am still a bit behind.

Tractor's surgery is Thursday. We have more good news at the hamstery to share soon. Ultimately we've been super busy but chugging along.

Happy Tuesday!

09/29/2025

How do you eat your kale? Are you a munch in the open type of ham? Sneaky snacker? Pouch to go? Or maybe a snack in bed?

are now 3wks and I'm planning to get photos today so we can begin selection, as well as get caught up on my emails and update the website. Fun times!

09/27/2025

What's it like to be a baby hamster? Peek inside the TARDIS and find out with ! These little guys love to rustle tustle, snack and scurry! They're busy and always in a hurry.

Happy Saturday friends!

Had a chance to clean out and before I put them back in their clean home I snapped a photo of everyone. Lots of little...
09/26/2025

Had a chance to clean out and before I put them back in their clean home I snapped a photo of everyone. Lots of little toe beans and rosy snoots.

Which baby atter are you today?

09/25/2025

I mentioned we were at the vet on Tuesday, so a little more about that. I noticed on Monday that had a health concern. What I thought was discharge was actually a small vaginal prolapse. I booked her in immediately with my vet (all prolapses are an emergency, luckily Tractor's was very mild and vaginal, so could wait a little) and we kept the area moist with water based lubricant.

We saw Dr. Munn on Tuesday and he was relieved to see that it wasn't as bad as he thought it would be after hearing the word prolapse. Given her age (4.5mo) and how mild it was, we've chosen to try to treat it with antibiotics and anti inflammatories in hopes it self resolves. However we do have surgery booked for Tractor next Thursday.

While I'm hopeful the meds might help I do think ultimately we'll be looking at surgery. With how young she is, I've told Dr. Munn I want to be a bit aggressive with how we treat this to give her the best chance at a positive outcome. I unfortunately don't have a lot of good experiences with prolapses but given how mild it is I have hope it will turn out ok.

In the meantime, Tractor has been an excellent patient and very good for her meds. She'd appreciate some kind words or thoughts though her way. I'm glad she isn't having any issues with her current predicament, she is acting completely normally!

Last but not least and another possible keeper option for me is miss aka "Bumblebee" which is a favourite around the h...
09/23/2025

Last but not least and another possible keeper option for me is miss aka "Bumblebee" which is a favourite around the house. Pebble loves buhbohs about as much as she loves atters! Buhboh is a black tortoiseshell female with a fantastic tummy and a chonky body. are such gorgeous and sweet babies! I can't wait to share them more with you.

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