Can hamsters have seizures or heart attacks?

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I think my hamster is really sick. Her eyes are really bloody and the one is crusted shut. But that has been happening lately, and then they open up and look normal in a few days. But yesterday, she did something really strange. She screamed (if thats even possible) and her body went stiff. She was lying on her back and her two front paws were stiff and were together, and then her one back leg was out streched and stiff, andthe other one wasn't so streached out but it was stiff. And that position last a good 10 seconds. And i started to talk to her. I said her name a few times. I asked her if she was okay (Please no mean comments, I was just trying to talk to her to see if she was still alive & that maybe she'd wake up) & After calling her name a few times, she flipped herself over, and went about her normal routines (Eating, drinking, walking around) As if nothing happened at all. 


Can someone please explain to me what had happened to her? And can you also explain why her eyes are bloody? She doesn't have diarhea or a wet tail or anything. Everything seems normal. She eats & drinks & runs on her wheel still.

Okay thank you :) Serious answers please!

Brittany · Accepted Answer

It may have been a stroke or seizure.
Hamsters can have any of the things humans can get.
My old hamster did something similar to that. Although there was Johnny wrong with his eyes.
 But he didn't go back doing  normal stuff. It just progressed and got worse and worse.
It got to a point where it was just constant and my parents wouldn't take himto the vet because it had gotten to a pOint where it wouldn't help. He had woke up one morning basically paralyzed

You definitely don't want to underestimate it.
If you can take him to the vet, it's really the only thing you can do.

? · Answer

All animals are prone to heart and brain diseases, even hamsters. So yes, they can have seizures and heart attacks. Your hamster sounds very sick, the bloody eyes were probably a warning that a bad disease had struck her. You should absolutely take her to a vet as soon as possible, it can be a vírus, a infection or a tumor, and some  diseases don't really show on her feces, so you can't tell if she has anything just by looking at her poop. Hamsters are very fragile pets, so if there is anything wrong you must take her to a vet, because they die very easily.

Anonymous · Answer

Any creature that has neural impulses (pretty much anything that has a brain) can have misfires of those impulses (a seizure). I'd definitely suggest you take the hamster to a vet as soon as possible.

As far as heart attacks, those are caused by blood clots entering the heart. Due the the extremely small size of the arteries in a hamster's heart, a heart attack is far more possible than in a human.

Anonymous · Answer

I would bring her a vet. My hamster did the same thing when it died (flipped over on its back and stuff) and it was probably a heart attack.

Anonymous · Answer

Hamsters can have heart attacks, they are easily scared!!

? · Answer

hamsters die from heart attacks all the time.. they are very easily prone to it.

Rainstorm · Answer

Take it to the vet.

Anonymous · Answer

It's a hamster.

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