Curious about hamsters question

According to SimGurus in My First Pet live stream, the rodent's life span is 3 weeks.
After 3 weeks, the rodent will die by old age unless you buy and feed them Anti-Aging treat.

"MaggieMarley;c-16594520" wrote:
Out of interest, how are hamsters as pets? I didn’t get the my first pets stuff pack because I thought hamsters in sims 3 were boring and didn’t do much. But, irl I love hamsters so I had been hoping for more interactive hamsters in TS4.

Can you have them run around in a ball?

No they are stuck in a cage you buy. That didn't seem like 3 weeks it seemed to die in 2 weeks. My sim was single and had no kids and the hamster lived the entire Summer and died the first day of Fall. I also started in Summer.

"MaggieMarley;c-16601279" wrote:

"BoergeAarg61;c-16600840" wrote:

"MaggieMarley;c-16594520" wrote:
Out of interest, how are hamsters as pets?

Spooky. They live in a cage like others wrote, but the sims can take them out or talk to them. You might also get spooky messages from the cage including about receiving a post card from a trip made by the hamster or a nuclear eksplotion in the cage.

This actually sounds quite cool!

Mine have had raves, experimented and gone on trips. They live the life lol

@TravisBlackfox I think you need to buy them some sort of treat that makes them live forever.

If you go to the vet, there is something you can purchase, feed it to your pet hamster, and they will live forever.

About ten days I think, as it was said, you can buy some pill to make your hamster immortal.

In real life hamsters are supposed to live 3 years at least pretty sure of that.

I have all aging in the game off. So no Sims nor cats/dogs die. Would that same setting hold true for hamsters?

"luimistelija;c-16854955" wrote:
@TravisBlackfox I think you need to buy them some sort of treat that makes them live forever.

Ah ok! I'll try and remember that for whenever i get the pack.