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Anonymous
Above posters are correct, it is wet-tail. Get your hamster to a vet ASAP. Sounds like it's pretty advanced if the hamster is already smelling bad and his rear is wet. I've treated hundreds of hamsters with wet-tail (not even exaggerating) and your actions now will decide if the hamster lives or dies.
Here's what I was taught about wet-tail: All hamsters have it living in their digestive tracts. As>>138235stated, there are a number of things that can aggravate it. Compare it to a very young child vomiting too much - they dehydrate.
I know he might be hard to handle but see if you can get him to drink, even if you must use a syringe and force it. Keep him hydrated until you can get him to a vet! If you will not take him to a vet, either return him to the pet store you got him from (depending on the store, that is.. I know at Petsmart, for example, you have a 14 day guarantee and when we got hamsters with WT we'd treat them and give them back, if the owner wanted) or pick up a medication like Dri-Tail. That's the most common, there's another one though that's a series of pills you put in the water.. however, if your hamster will not drink from its bottle this will obviously not work. Most of the time I treated hamsters with WT, we HAD to force feed them the medicine. I think Dri-Tail comes with an eyedropper to administer it.
Srs though, google wet tail. VERY serious and a notorious hamster killer. GL, OP.
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