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Pebbles82 · 05-10-2019, 10:06 AM

A few thoughts. Have you had to move her cage at all? Any change of environment, even moving the cage from one area to another, can mean a change of environment that can stress them. Our robo started bar chewing a bit after I moved him to another room and had him for ages without issue. It settled down though - distracted him with some tasty food elsewhere in the cage.

Make sure she has a huge pile of paper nesting material available in the cage and scatter feed a little bit of her food each day as well as putting it in her bowl and see if that distracts her.

I would also suggest propping something heavy in front of the current hole and see if that helps. Even just a piece of wood propped up that blocks it. She can chew the wood instead!

05-10-2019, 10:06 AM
Pebbles82 Hamster Antics Join Date: Sep 2014 Posts: 23,533	Re: chewed through cage base!! A few thoughts. Have you had to move her cage at all? Any change of environment, even moving the cage from one area to another, can mean a change of environment that can stress them. Our robo started bar chewing a bit after I moved him to another room and had him for ages without issue. It settled down though - distracted him with some tasty food elsewhere in the cage. Make sure she has a huge pile of paper nesting material available in the cage and scatter feed a little bit of her food each day as well as putting it in her bowl and see if that distracts her. I would also suggest propping something heavy in front of the current hole and see if that helps. Even just a piece of wood propped up that blocks it. She can chew the wood instead!