Why does my hamster do this?

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Our new hamster is a love. We got him at the beginning of August when he was 12 weeks old as his litter mates had been picking on him.

He loves to spin his wheel like mad at night and it is great watching him.

What I am not sure about is why he has covered his food with the sawdust, new food put in yesterday, and also why he has poohed in his bed?

perhaps he's just a slob

Thanks for that.

The first laugh I have had all day.

Thanks too MBP.

we have 2 other hamsters and they have never covered their food so I was worried he was trying to tell me something.

I made his bed up once with different stuff, still lovely and soft, and he took it all out and refused to go in it until I put the original stuff in.

I had a hamster that would shimmy up the bars on his cage, go along the top as if he was on monkey bars, turn upside down and drop on his head. After shaking himself, he'd get back up and do it again. The cage was about 2ft high. They're strange little things are hamsters.

We also called him fatboy. Our vet friend laughed as we didn't know fatboy was really a big girl!

I think the burying his food is a way for him to store his excess provisions as he would in the wild.
As for poohing in his bed - could be a way of scent marking the bedding to make it 'his'. We were told to leave some of the old bedding in when cleaning the cage, so it would still smell of the owner.
Doesn't bother ours either way - but 'he' is also really a girl I think, not sure if that makes any difference, and she too does a spiderman impression along her roof until she crashes to the floor. Over and over and over.......