stair climbing=yay!

[Mou_Mou]

after reading someone else's post here that they trained their hamster to climb a flight of stairs me and my housemate gave it a go and it only took us half an hour to get her to do 1 step, then by the next day she was doing whole flights! thanks to the person who recommended it because aside the climbing i have found stairs to be a great place to allow her to run around without risk of escape! i think it has made her a lot happier to have more options and space to run freely out of her ball!

[shazzy]

Hehe it's great fun for them isn't it? I remember letting my hamster do it when I was a kid and they loved it, and then when I joined this forum people reminded me that stair climbing is great fun. My Mo loves it and you're right, it's nice to have an extra free space where they can run off some energy

[merita]

I've had Koda 2 and a half weeks now and it's only just ocurred to me (I'm a bit thick sometimes) that I can let him out to run around at the bottom of my stairs. I live in a first floor flat but have my own on-street front door. Our flats look like houses from outside but the two upstairs ones, when you go in the door you are met with the stairs. At the bottom of my stairs there is nothing but the front door so can let him out down there safely without fear of him running behind something and never coming out again.

He was delighted to be able to run around free and whizzed around checking out the small gap under the door, sniffing the fresh air, and nibbling my doormat. He also seemed to enjoy nibbling my skirtings board tops too. He immediately decided he enjoyed trying to chew my carpet to bits in the corners (I've read posts here on this habit lol). Once he realised he couldn't get a grip with his claws on my glossy skirtings and so couldn't climb up them, it took him no more than 20 seconds to teach himself to climb the stairs, using the carpet to grip onto.

Now I have somewhere to let him out while I save to buy the huge bin I saw at the DIY store. Now all I have to do is make him some toys, as there are no good ones to buy in the shops.

[Bunsey]

heehee, i do find it funny to watch them stair-climb... one of mine escaped out of the ball and climbed upstairs, although i didn't train her to do that! i was in the bathroom so she climbed the stairs and sat outside the bathroom door. As you do

[leedsgurl]

My hammies love climbing the stairs! having recently moved from a flat to a house, they learned how to climb them pretty quickly

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYZisQnboXo

[pauljono1120]

Mine climbs the stairs too

Takes him about 5mins to get going, but ounce he starts he can get to the top pretty fast.

[pauljono1120]

Wow Leedsgurl, just seen your youtube video, yours climbs the stairs so fast!