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Old 04-21-2018, 08:43 AM  
Pebbles82
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Default Re: Quick size question

It is still considered a minimum cage size by a lot of people and by animal charities and welfare groups. The RSPCA themselves no longer state a minimum size but give a kind of vague description of - a lot of space and enough floorspace after houses, toys and wheels etc are in there. They have put the focus more on enrichment - ie the amount of variety, substrate and things to do in a cage, which in itself means a cage needs to be big enough to fit enough enrichment.

I personally think it's a good minimum size but prefer 100cm cage which is the German minimum size. However an 80cm ish cage can be set up well and be fine. I think the size of the hamster can make a difference. We had a very large Syrian and he needed a lot of larger things which filled up an 80cm cage a bit too much. On the other hand rat sized toys are good for most Syrians anyway and they do tend to be quite large.
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