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Old 08-03-2011, 06:55 AM   #11
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I think Nat (AI) has that fort and put photos up of one of her hamsters climbing over the walls, but maybe it depends on the syrian!!
I think a cardboard playpen is much better than the metal ones, we have one but it's a pain to put together and I know syrians can climb out of it so you have to watch them like a hawk to make sure there are no escapees!!
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Old 08-03-2011, 07:15 AM   #12
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very nice..
FM? could a syrian climb over that fort?
Cooper is alot taller than the fort so could easily get over but he decides not to, bless him. He's the same with the barred playpen, such an angel.

If you have Syrians that enjoy to escape playpens then I wouldn't recommend it.
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Old 08-03-2011, 07:33 AM   #13
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Looks nice and fun for them
This is the playpen I use while preparing them to be ready for floortime, its the hamsterfort celotaped together.
(thats Squirt sneaking in the picture, and you may noticed my overflowing toy box )
Awww the adorableness! I thought about getting one of those but dad pointed out the massive box in the garage that wasn't being used for anything... xD
I have a feeling I may end up with that many toys eventually, I tend to hoard things haha
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Old 08-03-2011, 08:13 AM   #14
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Bet that is great for them , looks lovely

This is what me and RachK do for our hammies xD
Pip my robo, gets playtime in the bath, and in the playpen enclosed, as i dont trust him fully on the landing


They get the landing to themselves, the syrians sometimes climb over the playpen at the end, so we just put them back over xD
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Old 08-03-2011, 09:16 AM   #15
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Wow, I'd love to have that much floorspace for them! They must love it hehe
I haven't tried the bathtub yet, not sure if my parent's would approve...but we shall find out! lol
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Old 08-03-2011, 10:47 AM   #16
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Yeah... Scamp hitting my foot was er... unpleasant lol
Now I'm on stronger painkillers and careful enough to avoid her hitting it hard even if she does manage to touch it

I hope you enjoy the bathtub idea when you try it
We considered it but since our runs are all big enough for us to fit at least one human as well as a hamster (or four of them :P) we've decided to try taming them in the runs instead.
Scamp loves us sitting in the run with her - Thinks we're extra-large toys lol. So we're hoping that in time we'll get all the boys confident enough to do the same

We've er... Got a lot of hamster toys too lol
Have a spare cage, three spare dwarf wheels, a bigger broken wheel awaiting either fixing or binning and four groups of outside-cage toys (one pile for each cage so no-one has to play with toys that smell of someone they don't live with). Plus a few egg boxes, cardboard tubes, and little hidey things that're for everyone to be given when we think they should get them. Oh and a load of plastic tubes and stuff too lol, they should go with the rotastak bit of Scamp's cage but she's always got spares, so they double as toys for everyone too

No-one is exactly short of in-cage toys either lol

Plus they're all getting new wheels and I'll soon be putting in an order for more hamster toys soonish... But then I'll be done buying hamster toys for a while.
I've bulk-bought consumables so that I can stay out of the local petshops for a while and not get tempted by any new toys they might get in lol. Only thing we might need before September is chinchilla sand and the local petshops don't sell it anyway.


(Disclaimer - Scamp's rotastak is joined to a bin cage with a large wheel, she loves it and is one of the cases where rotastak does work for a syrian.)
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Old 08-03-2011, 03:11 PM   #17
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FM? could a syrian climb over that fort?
Most I would say could. Porridge certainly wasn't going to accept being put in it with a whole world to explore beyond it
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Old 09-27-2011, 10:00 AM   #18
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Looks nice and fun for them
This is the playpen I use while preparing them to be ready for floortime, its the hamsterfort celotaped together.
(thats Squirt sneaking in the picture, and you may noticed my overflowing toy box )
wow! love the big box of toys ;}
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