Choosing a Breeder

Hello everyone.
Today I am posting about breeders. Breeder is a person that breed pets (animals) for two main reasons: money or love for animal species. I highly recommand getting your hamster from a breeder over petshop if it's possible. No matter money or love breeder, it is much better then petshop. In fact, I would rather buy a hamster from stranger then take it for free. I don't know why, but I belive that it should have better genetics if I pay for it. Free hamsters might just be from sick parents or something. It doesn't necessarily mean that hamsters you pay for have good genetics withoust any disoreder. So I recommand getting a hamster from a good breeder, maybe a friend or person you know just to be sure. But the problem is how to pick a good responsible breeder for the first time?
When I first got Pixie, I didn't knew a single fact about hamsters. So it took me like a month to really look through all web pages and books I could find just to learn some basics about hamsters and decide on more of them. From one side it was good experiance because I was learning along Pixie, but it could turn ot really bad. So do your job and get prepared before even walking into a petstore. First thing you should know when visiting a breeder you think to get hamster from is how much that person knows about hamsters. So be prepared, have like 10 questions in your head like "Are all the hamsters from petstores same breed", "What bedding should I use", "Should I bath my hamster" and so on. Of course you know answers to all these questions, but just to test the breeder. Second most important thing is to give attention to all breeder's hamsters. Are only the mother and pups in one big cage while other are in some small cages? Are they separated in proper way? How much hamsters does the person have? Because if person has only one hamster, the mother, it is most likely he/she got a hamster as a pet, it gave birth and now they are gtrying to make profit on babies. Ask about family history. Next thing off is getting information about the local breeders. You can always ask in petstores or some friends that have hamsters for information about local breeders. Really important thing is also if you are planing on breeding your hamsters make sure to get you hamsters frokm different places to prevent any problems.
Hope this post helped someone. If any questions feel free to contact me.
-Marko