Hamster Central - View Single Post - Where does the continuous floor space rule come from?

AmityvilleHams · 06-13-2019, 10:14 AM

Syrians are an especially difficult species sometimes, with some not even being happy in square meter cages.

I do love the focus we're getting on enrichment, but there's only so much it enrichment can do. It also becomes a double edged sword when it leans towards "as big as possible", since "big" is 100% perspective based when humans are the ones to decide! To some humans, an 80 x 50 cage is already massive and an absolute paradise while some Syrians(or even some dwarf hamsters, but that doesn't seem as likely) for example may find that size to be more like a prison.

As far as continuous floor space being the only type to count, one way to think about it is that you wouldn't consider a beach house and a regular house owned by one person to be one entire house. They're completely separate buildings and cannot be counted as combined square footage, just as bins connected by tubes for example can't be counted as one big cage(or 10 Critter Trails or any other example anyone could think of).

06-13-2019, 10:14 AM
AmityvilleHams PM Fluffy for custom title Join Date: Mar 2016 Posts: 4,545	Re: Where does the continuous floor space rule come from? Syrians are an especially difficult species sometimes, with some not even being happy in square meter cages. I do love the focus we're getting on enrichment, but there's only so much it enrichment can do. It also becomes a double edged sword when it leans towards "as big as possible", since "big" is 100% perspective based when humans are the ones to decide! To some humans, an 80 x 50 cage is already massive and an absolute paradise while some Syrians(or even some dwarf hamsters, but that doesn't seem as likely) for example may find that size to be more like a prison. As far as continuous floor space being the only type to count, one way to think about it is that you wouldn't consider a beach house and a regular house owned by one person to be one entire house. They're completely separate buildings and cannot be counted as combined square footage, just as bins connected by tubes for example can't be counted as one big cage(or 10 Critter Trails or any other example anyone could think of).