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01-04-2018, 12:22 PM
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Newborn Pup
Join Date: Jan 2018
Location: NC
Posts: 3
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my hamster uses her wheel as a toilet?
My dwarf hamster only likes to pee and poop on her wheel. I've never seen any soiled bedding around the cage and every morning her wheel is filthy, so I have to wash it daily.
Is this normal behavior? I don't mind too much, but I got her a sandbox+litter tray the other day and was hoping she'd use that as a toilet instead of her wheel since it's easier for me to clean. Any suggestions? :-/
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01-04-2018, 12:30 PM
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PM Fluffy for custom title
Join Date: Jan 2016
Location: Hertfordshire - UK
Posts: 3,190
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Re: my hamster uses her wheel as a toilet?
You could wipe the wheel with ttissue and then put the tissue into the sand box/litter tray.
Washing the wheel can make them pee in it more. My robo pees in his wheel, but also in his sand.
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01-04-2018, 01:51 PM
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Dwarf whisperer
Join Date: May 2014
Location: Wales UK
Posts: 24,789
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Re: my hamster uses her wheel as a toilet?
It's totally normal for some hams to do that, I wouldn't clean the wheel more than once a week, it may look filthy to you but your ham obviously likes it like that & over cleaning will just make matters worse!
As CMB said you can try to encourage use of the littler tray but some hams will always pee in the wheel, I wouldn't worry about it tbh.
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