Do hamsters stink?

[rrod13]

My father is thinking of getting some hamsters.  He says they are very clean but I don't believe him.  Does anybody know if they stink?

[discardedheart]

i don't think they stink. they're fairly easy to take care of too. plus they're cute little fluff *bleep* ;p i've got a guinea pig, myself.. but i've had hamsters in the past.. i never had any cleanliness issues with them 

[squirrelgirl44]

Yeah, they can if you don't keep their cage super clean.

[chchtati]

Of course, If you don't keep the cage clean. I used to have one and I kept the cage extra clean, ALWAYS!!
That strong smell is too hard to get rid of. 

[chchtati]

Hamsters are clean, you just have to keep their environment clean!! 

[Delinquency]

Yes they do, but only for a short time... usually when their cage needs to be cleaned. but if you keep up with it, youll be good.

[mlainez]

i would never own one, but my friend has a couple which add a certain unpleasant smell to her home.

[NewbillH]

they definitely do stink, a mix of the bedding smell with pee...yuck lol u have to clean the cage a LOT

[nikolahull]

it is not necessarily the animal itself that smells, it is their urine & feces and their bedding that smells.of course, like any animal you have to keep their cage clean.

[Delinquency]

it is not necessarily the animal itself that smells, it is their urine & feces and their bedding that smells.of course, like any animal you have to keep their cage clean.

sums it up nicely.

[NewbillH]

i once had 47 at once.... talk about smelly lol, it was a huge aquarium full. we started out with 2, then got one more and from there....they multiplied, so just be careful about having more than one lmao

[rbox1064]

No more than any other caged rodent...

[kittywish]

i've had a rat, mouse and hamster.  Hamster smelled the least.  But I may have kept up on cleaning better.

[lightstar240]

I've had several hamsters over the years, and I have one now. And I can say that it's not the hamsters that stink, but their cages, if you don't clean them. And even their cages aren't that bad. RABBITS are a different story. That's why you keep them outside. Just saying. But I think that overall, hamsters ARE pretty clean animals in comparison with other animals their size.

[Bigpuffy1]

keep cleaning, no smell