Granted Chaos Exotics

02/26/2025

ANNOUNCEMENT
NEW INQUIRIES WILL NOT BE VIEWED/PROCESSED UNTIL APRIL 1ST

Unfortunately we are dealing with a hard mite outbreak, and until it is under control we will not be homing any critters. The hope is that by April 1st we can begin processing purchases again, but until then animals will not be leaving this house until they're completely clear of mites and are actively regrowing any patchy coats (mostly armpits and necks). Replies may be a bit slower with the intensive workload that managing a mite outbreak in many dozens of rodents brings, but at minimum I will work to maintain interaction with all prior and current adopters who are reaching out for breeder support.
We will be making an album of av aïlabl è critters soon, but they will be view only until april 1st. You are welcome to message in the meantime, as if you enquire first and get approved to adopt you'll have first choice of pet quality hamsters, but I will not be responding to enquiries until the start of April (this will be noted on any critters posted till then)
If you received a hamster from me who came down with mites within 2 weeks of coming home, please reach out as I will be paying for the treatment, in case it came from here before the mites were noted.
In the meantime we'll be using this down time of not processing new inquiries to rework how all data is organized, and will be adding a small initial application to streamline basic information collection!
I'm hoping to also stockpile some nice photos for future uploads, but we'll see if that happens 🤣
(our pet hedgehog, Fig, for tax)

02/14/2025

There will be Syrian and Campbell's babies ready for this route! Also still have a few retirees of both species 👀🏠

01/28/2025

Hi friends! We're headed on the road tomorrow to deliver some hammies! So excited to be sending Cas to a wonderful family, and Deckard (now Pudge) headed to Dandelion Critters to help start up a silver gray line!

We're also bringing along Sweet Sunset's Attic, who will be bred to my partners' longhaired black tort. She's 6-7 months now, so depending on whether they want to rear the litter or send her home with me to rear myself, he may just be coming along for the ride.

When I get back on Wednesday, I will hopefully be meeting a new syrian litter, and will have some campbells headed out of the nest to meet too.

The pup pictured is part of a litter with an outcross that unfortunately didn't go as planned. Mom decided her newborns needed their ears barbered, so we have 5 earless pups and one with what looks like a battle crop 😅 These pups (black, opal, and agouti) will be looking for pet only homes, as they do have the potential to be barberers themselves.

If you are interested in a funny looking dwarf, please keep an eye out, these guys need another 2 weeks, and then they'll be 👀4️⃣🏠, and transport will be available through Mels in february! I will try to get all 👀4️⃣🏠 animals photos up to date and posted by next wednesday.

01/27/2025

This gorgeous boy! I can't wait to get some BEA genetics for my line 😍

01/16/2025

Lots of info on my syrian babies! Check each photo for a description and info, PM if you have questions!

01/12/2025

Oh how I love a mottled opal...

This girl is a keeper that I have in with my red eyed lilac male, I honestly still have a few hold backs who still need names and she's one of them 🙈

01/07/2025

I was recently asked why I do not use 775sq inches as the minimum I will adopt into, and it is because the science does not actually support it. I will not follow pseudoscience, anthropomorphized, and purposefully biased research, nor will I ever willfully suggest it as proof. Additionally, using research on one species not even from the same genus as another and using it as definitive proof for how the other species should be cared for is a MASSIVE disservice to the underrepresented species. A Roborovski's Hamster is not a Syrian Hamster, a Campbell's Dwarf Hamster is not a Chinese Hamster.

01/04/2025

To all my adopters, past and future, I am moving away from using freeze dried chicken, eggs, and liver with all of my rodents, and highly increasing my decontamination routine after feeding any dog raw or freeze dried raw foods at my job. For non-lab block protein supplement, i am now only recommending freeze dried insects, peas, and quality cat and dog kibble. Fish may still be safe, but it is not a risk I am willing to take regarding cross contamination at the freeze drying operations that also process affected species.

HPAI H5N1 virus isolated from infected cow milk is characterized in mice and ferrets, was inefficiently transmitted in ferrets, and bound to sialic acids expressed in human upper airways, showing features that may facilitate infection in mammals.

01/04/2025

now THIS is the temperament I want in my holdbacks

12/21/2024

Fun hamster fact! Some campbells and winter white dwarf hamsters will pull their breeder into the nest to meet their newborns/pinkies! My girls will leave me to watch them so they can go snack hunting while I babysit :)

12/17/2024

Roadtrip Announcement!
I'm making I trip to Atlanta at the beginning of January, so if you are along this route (willing to deviate a bit depending on interest!) I'll be able to deliver dwarf hamsters! There will be no syrians ready for this trip unfortunately, but syrians will still be able to hop on Mel's February run 🥰

This trip would run January 8th, I could run through Asheville on my way down on the 6th though!

12/08/2024

Clancy And Garfunkel, as well as their father (Carfax), owned by Jessica and bred by Granted Chaos Exotic!

12/05/2024

Some routes I can put critters on

12/01/2024

TORPOR / HIBERNATION

I'm working on a more cohesive article with references and more accurate numbers, but here is an outline to help with the increasing influx of issues that we are seeing now that the cold season is coming in the northern hemisphere.

First off, domestic hamsters (syrians, roborovskis, campbells', winter whites, and chinese hamsters) do not hibernate. They go into torpor. Torpor is an emergency response to cold temperatures that will cost their life if not reversed quickly.

SYMPTOMS / IDENTIFYING TORPOR

-the animal will be cold but soft. If stiff, the hamster passed long enough ago to have entered rigor mortus. If warm, the hamster is not experiencing torpor, but if unresponsive they are likely passing away, if a vet is a possibility I recommend seeking one.

-you may be able to feel a VERY slow heart beat, place 2 fingers on the chest and press LIGHTLY, wait 60 seconds to feel for any beating.

-you may be able to feel or see them breathe. You can place a finger right up to the nose with just enough room to breathe, and feel for a minute or so for breath. A spoon can be placed in the same position to look for condensation from breathing.

-they will sometimes look dehydrated (eyes often sunken shut as the body attempts to protect them from the temperature threat)

If no breathing or heart beat is noted, you can still attempt to warm them in case something was missed, up to the owner.

HOW TO REVERSE IT

-skin to skin contact is ideal. Placing the hamster near the core of your body (chest working best), and cupping a hand over them to hold in more heat. The animal should start to become responsive within 30 minutes or so. If no signs (twitching of limbs, whiskers, eyes beginning to open, ears moving, etc) within 30 minutes, check for signs of life.

-if you cannot perform skin to skin contact, a hot water bottle, heat pack, or hand warmer can be used. Make sure that the surface is no warmer than your own skin, as heating them up too quickly can be dangerous as well.

As torpor reverses and the hamster begins to wobble around, offer fatty foods (sunflower seeds, critical care, etc). Monitor that behavior and activity level returns to normal overnthe next few days.

PREVENTING TORPOR
-keep the hamster in a draft free room, ideally at 70 degrees or warmer

-offer deeper bedding, the more the better to allow them to thermoregulate on their own

-slightly increase fat content in diet to account for additional energy needs (not recommended if temperature is above 70°)

-offer a variety of nesting materials to encourage nesting (hays, soft chopped straw, paper towels/toilet paper sheets, even empty spray stems can be laid out as nesting material)

12/01/2024

There's a bunch of baby syrian hamster squeaks coming from a cage today.... can't wait to show y'all this litter in a few days 😍

11/29/2024

I don't post about them, because I don't care to adopt any out, but I do work with mice as well! I'm currently establishing two lines, one of blue banded and one siamese, and texel will pop up in both of these lines when I've gotten them established! I'm hoping to work on quality angora and texel coats :)
(removed color ID's vecause i mis ID'd a few, forgetting one of the major recessives in this pairing 😅) All will be standard shorthair! I'm excited to see what comes from the other two litters who were born the last two days!