What do hamsters like to drink?
Water (make sure they have a good supply – tap water should do unless you have some strange nutrients in it), and, from an actual scientific journal found on the Internet: Hamsters have an extraordinarily high liking and tolerance for alcohol. Their tolerance is equivalent to 40 times the human tolerance in proportion to body weight. As a result hamsters have been used successfully in trials of anti-alcoholism drugs by seeing if they were put off their preferred choice of a 15% alcohol solution when given the choice with plain water. Scientists believe they have found ways to moderate “volitional drinking of alcohol” by hamsters. Tomato juice, chocolate drink, kudzu extract (Kevin Lauderdale tells me that Kudzu is a plant from the American South known for its incredible rate of growth – it can cover a VW Beatle overnight), and other fluids seem to suppress their alcoholic appetite.
