It's true! :lol: When I was a teenager I had some of the so-called "black bear" Syrian hamsters that a friend of my dad's had shipped from France. In fur color they were similar to extreme black mice, without a fleck of white anywhere on their bodies. They were really beautiful animals but they bit me more than any other creature I've ever had. And they always seemed grumpy when I woke them up, whereas my mice never ever hiss at me like they did (I don't know if they are capable of hissing like that, lol). I'm aware that it could have been just this one line of hamsters that had problems, though. But coincidentally a few years ago I found another little orange hamster in a pet store who captured my heart, and when I came home with her she, too, decided that I was delicious and hissed at me (though not as much), so after she passed away at the grumpy old age of ten million years, I gave up on hamsters. I'm a big guy, but somewhere deep in my psyche I am still a little bit afraid of hamsters!
I still think hamsters are cute, but I'll stick with mice. haha