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Pebbles82 · 11-07-2018, 01:15 PM

Our Syrian was like that at two and U didn’t really have to change much for a few months after that. One thing to be aware of though is heights as they can be a bit less mobile particularly with back legs and could fall. I lowered everything a bit at this age so he could still use his shelf but had a much lower, less steep ramp up to it and nothing to fall onto. I don’t think there’s ever a need to move them to a retirement cage. In fact a larger cage is better when they get to the stage of needing to take levels out completely because they can still enjoy the floor space and have more toys etc at floor level.

11-07-2018, 01:15 PM
Pebbles82 Hamster Antics Join Date: Sep 2014 Posts: 23,533	Re: How to Care for an Aging Syrian Our Syrian was like that at two and U didn’t really have to change much for a few months after that. One thing to be aware of though is heights as they can be a bit less mobile particularly with back legs and could fall. I lowered everything a bit at this age so he could still use his shelf but had a much lower, less steep ramp up to it and nothing to fall onto. I don’t think there’s ever a need to move them to a retirement cage. In fact a larger cage is better when they get to the stage of needing to take levels out completely because they can still enjoy the floor space and have more toys etc at floor level.