Alaska Cage Review

[flowerfairy]

I took all the plastic things that came with it out. I put a wooden fruit box upside down for Fairy's wheel, sand bowl and food bowl. Works a treat.

Great cage with a nice deep base. I would say its a maroon colour.

[don]

I just wanted to put in my two-penneth regarding the Alaska.

We're new hamster owners, so we don't know any different, but the Alaska is a great cage.

- Nice and deep base, for some deep substrate for burrowing. We have 20 litres of carefresh confetti, then I've also adding in lots of fitch as well.

- A good floor area to fit lots of stuff in.

- Has a good height so you can add hammocks/sputicks etc.

- I've actually made some additional shelves for him to climb on, he loves them and there's still plenty of room.

- Great access with the large front door.

- We don't tend to use the top door much, but it's useful for when you're hanging accessories and you need two hands to get access.

- Not a bad colour. As somebody else as said, it's a maroon type colour.

- Bars seem pretty good, albeit a pair of long-nosed pliers is required when putting the cage together.

- Flat pack. Before we got our Barnaby, we had the cage stored in our porch and we had lots of stuff stored inside. 10l pack of carefresh, the wooden leif cabin (large & I recommend it from zooplus), bag of food, chinchilla sand, water bottle. Basically everything we bought in that initial haul, we had stored inside the flat packed Alaska.

- Good, strong carry handles, and retaining clips. We've got lots inside our cage, and the full cage is pretty heavy. When we've recently moved him into another room for redecorating, then the handles were great for moving the cage.

- Plenty of room for a big wheel. I've mentioned on other threads that I have the large 12 inch wooden karlie wonderland wheel. I've removed the base from the wheel, and then mounted the wheel to the back of the cage, to make it more stable. It looks great, and he likes to burrow underneath his wheel at the back of the cage..

[don]

A couple of pics of my DIY shelves inside my Alaska. This was taken before he moved in, so there wasn't much carefresh in there.

[herbi7]

I used this cage for willow, i thought it was great and the easy large access meant I didn't have to sit patiently waiting for her to come out,she was much more comfortable bounding down the open door into my hands. It's easy to hang accessories because of the big doors too. It was a good size for her to run up and down her levels and in and out of her hammocks and I fitted a 12 inch silent spinner in too although I had to make sure she hadn't piled up her bedding underneath it to stop it spinning. It's also reasonably light to carry, willow and I had adventures going away to my parents caravan and she travelled happily inside it and it fitted exactly in the back of my little car (vw polo) on the back seat.

[FreddyAndMe]

I love this cage! I can fit Freddy's 28cm wheel through the doors easily, so if your hamster wees on the wheel you don't have to dismantle it to get the wheel out. It is also a modest colour so it doesn't shout out at you from across the room if you get me. Only problem is the bars on mine are pretty bad - the top door is quite bent, one bar is bent and one of the corner hooks is soldered shut so I can't hook it all together at all. This isn't really a problem though because the bends are in places you don't look at and I find it works well without assembling the corners properly.

Another major pro is the base is smooth with rounded corners so it is a breeze to wipe down, unlike the P@H 'large' wire cage which has raised squares on the bottom and 'corner corners', i.e. square corners, so kitchen roll and wipes are useless on it.

[SugarFairy123]

Yeah this is is a fairly good cage isn't it ? For it's price it is anyway..