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Hammy_Newbie · 06-24-2021, 02:26 PM

I am having similar issues with my hamster. We adopted her two weeks ago and she is also in a hamster heaven cage. My previous hamster was in the same cage and I never once saw her bite the bars (she did in her previous, smaller cage). I have put in an 11 inch wheel, ferplast guinea pig house, plenty of hides, chews, boredom breakers and bridges but she is still biting the bars sometimes. I was warned she was a chewer, to be fair!

I’m trying to add cardboard to where she is chewing or to move a hanging boredom breaker there but to be honest I’m hoping it might reduce once she settles in more. With the previous owner she was apparently in a small cage with very little enrichment so I think it’s probably a bad habit she picked up then.

Hopefully your hammy’s behaviour will settle once she feels more at home in her cage.

06-24-2021, 02:26 PM
Hammy_Newbie Hamster Pup Join Date: Mar 2020 Posts: 55	Re: Bar biting and monkey barring in new cage I am having similar issues with my hamster. We adopted her two weeks ago and she is also in a hamster heaven cage. My previous hamster was in the same cage and I never once saw her bite the bars (she did in her previous, smaller cage). I have put in an 11 inch wheel, ferplast guinea pig house, plenty of hides, chews, boredom breakers and bridges but she is still biting the bars sometimes. I was warned she was a chewer, to be fair! I’m trying to add cardboard to where she is chewing or to move a hanging boredom breaker there but to be honest I’m hoping it might reduce once she settles in more. With the previous owner she was apparently in a small cage with very little enrichment so I think it’s probably a bad habit she picked up then. Hopefully your hammy’s behaviour will settle once she feels more at home in her cage.