What kind of rodents that can peacefully coexist in one cage?

What about a gerbil, a hamster, a chinchilla, and a mouse in one cage? They all seemed to be harmless IMHO.What kind of rodents that can peacefully coexist in one cage?
Absoluteley NEVER mix small animals. Never.





Firstly, ';harmless'; is an overstatement. They are all more than harmless, they are cute and cuddley and like being pet and played with. To YOU they are angels. But they are still animals with some wild instincts, and youu must loko at them from a respectable perspective.





For example, something like dogs or cats gladly get along with whatever in the animal kingdom, but non of the small animals you have listed are that. The main reason is that small animals are prey, and by nature are very timid, and take serious precautions if it means avoiding being eaten.





If you put a dog and a cat together, they will sniff around and eventually get along, because they are predators and have little to fear. If you put a gerbil and a hamster together, their first instinct will be that the other is a great danger to them, and they will, from the first second to the last, do everything in their power to seem tough and aggressive. This involves tense threatening movement, and fierce fighting to the death, in some cases. I'm sure not all animals have such reactions, but this is the potential worst case senario. even if you have females together for example, that are not naturally to oaggressive, they will still behave in radical ways to scare off the other, and in the process stress all the animals in the cage out to the point of illness (yes, stress strongly affects health) or just a miserable life. I admit gerbils, hamsters and mice are relativley similar in care, but there is NO time when they would selectively CHOOSE to live together, so why play god and experiment with lives?





In either case, I'm shocked you threw chinchilals into the mix! Chins need HUGE cages that are in no way appropriate for any of the other three, and food that as well, should not be fed to the others. You cannot mix chinchillas with anything other than chinchillas because they need unique care that no other animals need...





By the way, you probably have never seen what a mouse can do to a snake when it is cornered and desperate to live! I have had two snakes which have been mutilated by mice. The same cute and cuddly mice that people keep as happy pets. This goes to show that when you try to bend the laws of nature, so to speak, you can cause extensive suffering to your animals. Do not mix.





By the way, chinchillas, gerbils, mice and DWARF hamsters are all very social animals, and strongly depend and benefit from living with others of their kind. These three do best living in at least a pair or threesome of the same sex. SYRIAN hamsters are strictly solitary and will fight with anything else on their turf, so are best kept alone.What kind of rodents that can peacefully coexist in one cage?
They can only peacefully coexist in one cage with their own kind. Gerbils are social and should be kept in same sex pairs, but only with gerbils. Syrian hamsters are solitary animals, but dwarf hamsters can live in pairs. Chinchillas can live with other chinchillas. Mice can live with other mice. You can NOT and should NOT try to put any of these together other than with their own kind.
Mixing species in 1 cage usually leads to trouble. Hamsters are territorial %26amp; can be unpredictable. Chinchillas are considerably larger than both hamsters %26amp; mice. Also, as others have noted, these species have different nutritional needs %26amp; it would be difficult to care for them properly if they *were* able to share a cage.


You can sometimes have a guinea pig in the same cage as a rabbit (esp a dwarf rabbit) but this depends on the personalities of the individual animals. Again, the 2 have different nutritional needs so you'd need to make sure that each was eating their proper food etc.
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None of these rodents could happily %26amp; safely live together. In the wild they stay out of each others way,so fighting doesn't occur. Syrian Hamsters are solitary creatures,only coming together to mate. Dwarf Hamsters are social,with their own species.





Gerbils live in colonies in their wild state,although gerbils cannot be paired with other animals. Chinchillas are also sociable,however once again only with each other. Mice ditto.





Even if you did successfully manage to group all these rodents together,their diets differ. Chinchillas are strict vegetarians/herbivores ,where is Gerbils,Hamsters %26amp; Mice,generally speaking are herbivores,however they do %26amp; will eat insects.





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My comment may not be significant, since i do not know much about rodents other than hamsters.


But here's what I say:


Gerbils, Hamsters, Chinchilla are best to be kept solo in one cage. These rodents are not expensive to care, so spare no expense for the benefits of these little companions.





However, a mouse is an entirely different story.


You see mice quite commonly when you are strolling. Observe. There often will be a pair or a group. In the wild, they live in big groups. Mice living with one another is no problem. Just don't expect the aggressive ones to have good bonding with the others.





To be kept solo: Gerbils, Hamsters, Chinchillas


Choose to be kept together: Mice





I forgot to mention that Guinea Pigs are very friendly creatures. If you get one, rather than keeping it alone, try to cheer it up by introducing more of its species. Guineas are a bit more expensive to care for than hamsters. Bigger cages and larger amounts of food will be required.





It's your choice. Just make the right one :)
I wouldn't say that this is such a good idea. They would all be unhappy. I highly recommend for you to get more cages.





And there are also diseases. If they cross each others diseases then you may well loose all of them.





And most important, their diet. Eg. If you need to feed lettuce to your hamster, and the rest of the animals can't have it, then there is a huge clash.





And what about dry food? They will all require different types of dry food. You are better off just getting more cages and putting them next to each other (cage by cage) if you want it like that.
Chinchilla like to be with their own kind.


Hamsters are extremely territorial. Most of them don't even like to be put with another hamster. They attack and kill one another.


Mice should be with their own kind two and in small groups.





But you can -in most cases- put a rabbit and a guinea pig together or a Diego-from the rat family- with a rabbit. Or all three of them together.


I have a White eard dorf rabbit with I had with two guinea pigs and a Diego and they were all fine. They ate the same food and etc. My Diego would crawl on top of my rabbit when he was sleeping and she would sleep on his back. He always let her.





One thing though-if you get a Diego get a small fish bowl and lay it in the cage..you need to put this certain kind of sand stuff inside the bowl..Diegos need it to keep clean.
no that just wouldn't work my mum stupidly put our hamster in the cage with my 2 gerbils and the gerbils attacked him and nearly killed him!


only keep them with the same species!


otherwise the poor animals are in danger!
rats. there small animals and brown there harmless they just travel and get yellow cheese it can fit under small places.
Don't put a chinchilla in a cage with anything besides it's own kind. I tried to see if my chinny would like my rabbits and she attacked them lol.
No, none of these can live together successfully
Buy some more ******* cages.