I don't have any personal experience with hamsters of any variety, but I can tell you what the vet told my cousin when her hamster rolled his ball off the landing and fell 14 feet, breaking a bone in his foot. There isn't any setting a bone in a hamster's foot or leg, because there is no way to stabilize it. They had her do exactly what you are doing, with putting him where it is dark and quiet, so that he wasn't encouraged to move a lot, and they had her up the calcium content of his diet, to help him heal. (My aunt really hoped that they would set his leg, put him in a cast, and then set him up on crutches so she could take his picture. The vet told her that would be terribly cruel.)
Really, you're doing the best thing for him. You should probably make sure that his foot is consistent in temperature with the rest of him (not terribly cold or hot), but that is about it.
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Date: 2004-08-20 09:21 pm (UTC)Really, you're doing the best thing for him. You should probably make sure that his foot is consistent in temperature with the rest of him (not terribly cold or hot), but that is about it.