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When it comes to choosing a new hamster, you want to make sure you get the one that is absolutely perfect for you. After all, they are going to be your friend, living in your home, and depending on you for hopefully the next couple of years and so it is super important to get it right. With this in mind a lot of people stay clear of albino hamsters despite their gorgeous white coats, worried that they will be much more effort to look after or will have health problems that they won’t be able to handle.
The good news is you have absolutely nothing to worry about! Even full albino hamsters (which are rare as we will discuss below), unless they are the incredibly rare Anopthalmic white hamsters which you will recognise in an instant, are no more work than regular hamsters of their breed. This means if you, like us, find these little snowy furballs completely adorable, you absolutely go right ahead!
What are albino hamsters?
In reality most hamsters that get called albino are simply white in appearance and not in fact completely albino. What they share however is a slight gene…
