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Ria P · 01-24-2020, 01:27 AM

How do you know that he absolutely loves living in a bath tub? I've put my dwarf in the bath tub once for play time but he hated it so i quickly took him out again. I think the relatively bright light in the bathroom bothered him as well. Bathrooms are too damp for a hamster and the slippery, sloped sides could feel scary to him, aside from the fact the he only has a small base as a home.
You could take the base out, fill up the whole bath with substrate up to about 6inches or more and add a proper house, lots of hides and tunnels so he can burrow, a wheel on a base like a flat roofed house etc if you really can't give him a proper cage.

01-24-2020, 01:27 AM
Ria P House of Hamsters Join Date: Mar 2019 Location: Wiltshire, UK Posts: 7,103	Re: Hamster enclosure in the bath How do you know that he absolutely loves living in a bath tub? I've put my dwarf in the bath tub once for play time but he hated it so i quickly took him out again. I think the relatively bright light in the bathroom bothered him as well. Bathrooms are too damp for a hamster and the slippery, sloped sides could feel scary to him, aside from the fact the he only has a small base as a home. You could take the base out, fill up the whole bath with substrate up to about 6inches or more and add a proper house, lots of hides and tunnels so he can burrow, a wheel on a base like a flat roofed house etc if you really can't give him a proper cage.