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Bleeding hamster paw

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Question
My older sister and I took out our two Dwarf hamsters to play with a couple minutes ago when she accidentally squashed one of them with her hand. He remained on his back for a moment and then he turned over in about 5 seconds. It took her less than a second to lift her hand, but we heard this crack. And we picked up the hamster carefully and saw that its paw was bleeding. We cleaned it off and put a bit of cleansing + infection foam and it seemed to have eased the pain. We saw some sort of residue forming on the corners of the eyes and he keeps making these odd squeaking sounds. My mom is too busy to take us to the nearest veterinary center wich is about 40 something miles away. What should I do?

Answer
heya
Hes squeaking becuase he is in pain. Really you ought to try and persuade your mum to take him to the vet. but if you can't do that, theres nothing you can do, bathe it in salt water to stop infection, or a very very mild antiseptic, becuase hamsters are littler than humans.
  Make sure food and water are easy for him to get to, and make life as easy as possible for him.
 i really can't tell you anything more. i hope he gets better.good luck.
~suzi