Cara's new cage

[Basia]

Cara is my one and only bar-biter now. Pudding has given up since she had her wodent wheel. Cara has been out to play for a long time this evening and in her ball but as soon as she went back in her gabber she started chewing the bars and she hasn't stopped for hours. So I have moved her into my new 'bargain' cage which was still empty because I couldn't decide which lucky hamster was going to get it. Try as she might - she can't reach the roof! (I don't think the water bottle is going to run out any time soon either).
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v296/gdb234/Caranewcage001.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v296/gdb234/Caranewcage003.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v296/gdb234/Caranewcage002.jpg

[souffle]

I love that cage Basia and it looks like a perfect solution fpr a roof chewer. The lid is lovely and clear and it is roomy too. Let's just hope she does not learn to jump! :lol:

[chase]

That house looks great, where did u get it from. My syrian charlie is a bar chewer and made his nose bare so thinking of changing his cage.

[Hanlou]

Aw bless her, in that first pic she is the picture of innocence! "Me? Chew my bars? As if I would do anything like that..." :lol:


But then in the bottom pic you can see she's trying to work out how to get to them.... :wink:

That's a nice cage, nice set up too. Bless her!

[Holly]

It looks wonderful, how lucky my baby is - and how lucky YOU are thwarting her chewing behaviour! Bless her, I can see her trying to figure out how to reach those bars :wink:

I've tried removing the shelf from my rex cages to mimic what you've done here - unfortunately they stand on potties/beds etc and can still reach :?

I'd be seriously interested in getting one of these cages to try - do you fancy doing a cage review perhaps when you have the time? :P

[Basia]

That house looks great, where did u get it from. My syrian charlie is a bar chewer and made his nose bare so thinking of changing his cage.

I'm not sure if this actual cage is made anymore, I got it greatly reduced from a garden centre and it had a large wire floor which I took out. (There is a thread about it somewhere, Catja kindly told me the cage was there).
The main body of the cage looks the same as the Ferplast Duna which has a plastic floor. The space-station thing came with the cage and Cara seems to love that.

[Spuds Mum]

Excuse me Gill - how on earth did you manage to steal my hamster???!!!! :shock: when you said these sisters were alike I didn't know you meant ALIKE lol.
You've done really well in thwarting her efforts. Bronte is a bar chewer too and we tried doing the roof run with chubes but she has just chewed a hole in the top of one of the chubes and we can see her lying on her back with her teeth wrapped round the gabber top! so basically we've just made it easier for the little madam!

Love your set up - that cage seems to have the advantage of the Gabber without the one tiny disadvantage - them being able to reach the roof!

[Holly]

Milly, the third triplet, is a bar (and water bottle!) chewer as well - aarrgghh :evil:

[Spuds Mum]

Isn't it strange that they all have the same mannerisms too? I think Ive said before though, how much I love these hamsters with 'personality' Bronte (and it sounds Cara and Milly) have it in buckets!

Bronte is never boring - she's always doing something that gets me either laughing or telling her off! And when I do tell her off - she just looks at me in a wounded sort of way and I just melt.

She even helped me write an email to new member Yaffle the other day - was sat on my laptop and composing by climbing all over the keys - so sweet.

They are all gorgeous girls Julie x

[babyboos]

Ferplast used to do a cage like that with a wire floor but pressure made them stop production thank goodness as babies used to get killed under the wire - it was supposed to make changing the litter layer easier... It looks very similiar in dimension to the Gabber (Montana) and the lovely way you have laid out the interior is a grea idea for those second hand Gabber's you find on eBay with no inner platform - or if it starts to get a bit tired and gnawed on, like a lot of mine do, especially if you put a bar-biter in them - I find they start off destroying the ladders and the big hole where the food bowl sits in before finally getting fed up.

[Basia]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v296/gdb234/291207.jpg
This is how it looked when I bought it. The wire floor is definitely another level, which is why it is taller than the gabber rex. Otherwise the dimensions are the same as the gabber rex. I think the body of the cage is the Ferplast Duna, it is definitely a ferplast cage.
Cara does look as if butter wouldn't melt in that first picture, doesn't she? Don't be fooled, she is a cage trashing, bar biting, loveable, entertaining little madam and she is a firm favourite with all the family because of her antics. :D She does seem to have settled quite well in her new cage though, she hasn't trashed it yet!

[Holly]

It's a lot bigger than the Ferplast Duna if the Duna Fun we had for a few days at Christmas is anything to go by. That was about the size of a Lux, slightly smaller in area.

[Spuds Mum]

Yes the Duna and the Lux are fairly comparable size wise - this looks a nice big floor area.

Its a shame about the wire floor as I like the bridge and general layout, but again Ive not seen anything like this from Ferplast so I think Babyboos is right and it may be a discontinued model?!

[I_am_plankton]

The bridge and wired bits are taken from the Ferplast rainbow which is a wired cage. Maybe this was an old model or perhaps even a duna with rainbow bits in that they had going spare and decided to put together?

[souffle]

Do you think they may have just put lots of bits in it from other cages Basia? We have those space station pods which we bought as standalone toys and the rainbow looks like it came from a rainbow so all in all you have a great deal there. Ours love those space house/tube things and we can't find them anywhere to buy. Let us know if you see any online anyone.

[kimtekz]

I want one of those but they don't sell them on ebay or Pet stores I go to in US :(

How much are they ?

[jayne]

Great cage you have there, Cara must be well chuffed with all that space and her toys!! :D



Do you think they may have just put lots of bits in it from other cages Basia? We have those space station pods which we bought as standalone toys and the rainbow looks like it came from a rainbow so all in all you have a great deal there. Ours love those space house/tube things and we can't find them anywhere to buy. Let us know if you see any online anyone.

Souffle - are these the space house things you are talking about?

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/SUPERPET-CYBER-HO ... dZViewItem (http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/SUPERPET-CYBER-HOUSE-HAMSTER-GERBIL-MICE-PETS-HOME_W0QQitemZ300187446561QQihZ020QQcategoryZ1286Q QssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem)

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/SUPERPET-CYBER-CI ... dZViewItem (http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/SUPERPET-CYBER-CITY-KIT-HAMSTER-GERBIL-MICE-PETS-HOME_W0QQitemZ300187720285QQihZ020QQcategoryZ1286Q QssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem)

[Holly]

Ours love those space house/tube things and we can't find them anywhere to buy. Let us know if you see any online anyone.

Do you mean these, souffle:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/CRITTER-CYBER-HOU ... dZViewItem (http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/CRITTER-CYBER-HOUSE-HAMSTER-MICE-GERBIL_W0QQitemZ230086580077QQihZ013QQcategoryZ128 6QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem)

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/New-Cyber-City-Ki ... dZViewItem (http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/New-Cyber-City-Kit-Hamster-Playground-House_W0QQitemZ220126926903QQihZ012QQcategoryZ1286 QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem)


Saw them whilst I was browsing ebay today at ....ahem...work :oops:

[souffle]

Aww thanks guys that is exactly what we want. Syrians love these and they are quite roomy. Red stores her food in the top half and sometimes sleeps in the bottom and Pawsy likes to have a wash in his. I am going to order a couple for the ones without right now. I can recommend these for Gabber rex's. The top is rounded and they cannot climb on top to bar chew :wink: We have the smaller version.

Just ordered two :lol: :lol: One for Napoleon and one for Sonni.

[Holly]

Snap! :wink:

[Basia]

Do you think they may have just put lots of bits in it from other cages Basia? We have those space station pods which we bought as standalone toys and the rainbow looks like it came from a rainbow so all in all you have a great deal there. Ours love those space house/tube things and we can't find them anywhere to buy. Let us know if you see any online anyone.

The wire floor, rainbow bridge and space station were definitely part of the cage, it had an instruction book with it showing me how to put it all together. The wire floor sort of hooks onto slots in the cage. It was originally £54! I think it was a real bargain at £20.

The Duna Fun is the same floor size as the Mini-Duna which is often referred to as a Duna and seems to be much easier to get hold of than the full size Duna which I always knew was the same size as a gabber but had never actually seen one. I have seen photos though and my cage does look like a Duna but with different inside bits. I think the cage that Catja bought and Desi now lives in is the Duna because it has a plastic floor like photos I have seen of the Duna.

I have seen what I believe is my cage referred to in a thread on one of the forums talking about the current Rainbow Bridge cage and it was apparently a variation but is no longer made.

The space station is brilliant, Cara seems to really like it.

[Holly]

I found this:

http://store.whitehallgardencentre.co.u ... STER-CAGE/ (http://store.whitehallgardencentre.co.uk/store/product/20956/FERPLAST-DUNA-HAMSTER-CAGE/)

The size looks good but it's not like yours :roll:


I'm going to try the Wyevale Garden Centre near here over the weekend - the more I think about this cage stopping bar chewing the keener I am!

[Pouchy]

That cage is a Ferplast galaxy and you are right. They don't make them anymore. I have one which houses an adopted zebra mouse. The wire level has been covered with hard plastic to increase the floor space by 2. Great cage once done. Shame they don't make it anymore.

[Hanlou]

Ooohh I like the space station thingys.... :D

I think Herbert might like them too. :wink:

[Basia]

I found this:

http://store.whitehallgardencentre.co.u ... STER-CAGE/ (http://store.whitehallgardencentre.co.uk/store/product/20956/FERPLAST-DUNA-HAMSTER-CAGE/)

The size looks good but it's not like yours

It is the same cage Holly, it is just the inside bits that are different. It has a plastic floor as opposed to the wire one mine had. The roof also lifts up on the newer models and mine slides.

Thanks for solving the mystery Pouchy. I knew I had read about it somewhere and that it was discontinued. It is a great cage, even with the floor taken out.

[Holly]

It is the same cage Holly, it is just the inside bits that are different. It has a plastic floor as opposed to the wire one mine had. The roof also lifts up on the newer models and mine slides.


Ah-ha! Well if my next battle in the War Against Bar Chewing is unsuccessful, guess what cage I'm going to try next (Milly and Minnie will likely be the first recipients :roll: ).