A Hamster’s Cage should be preferably cleaned every night. Hamsters usually pick a certain place to do the excretion of urine and feces (poop). Whereas that urine-soaked bed should be cleaned regularly both for hamsters’ health and smell. The Cage must be cleaned completely about once a week removing all bedding and replacing it with a fresh one. To reduce the urine smell the use of waffles is a good remedy as the chlorophyll in them helps reduce the urine smell; the Cage then smells cleaner for much longer and so does the resident.
Hamsters when born are hairless but gradually grow quite a lot of hair and the kind of activities they usually get involved in, as a result of that their hair gets a lot of greasier and starts to smell as well but don’t ever think of giving Hamster a bath, Hamster can get seriously ill as they cannot bear extreme temperatures, therefore the options that you are left with are to clean the Hamster softly with a toothbrush or let the Hamster roll in the chinchilla sand or perhaps if the Hamster is literally very dirty then dip a cotton bud in lukewarm water and squeeze it out then dab the Hamster with it.
Hamster’s teeth do not stop growing throughout their lives; you don’t have to worry about their teeth as their diet and habits keep their teeth clean without any need for brushing. Hamsters need a gnawing surface to keep the incisors to the right length for that purpose wooden blocks and huts made of natural material should be provided in the Cage for Hamster.
Hands should be properly washed before taking Hamster into hands as it affects the health of both.