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Pebbles82 · 07-20-2022, 09:00 AM

This is when I first had the cage and had the solid shelf on the right, so you can see how big it is. It took up too much space with the ladder as well - a house wouldn't fit under it. It also had this stupid little inset yellow plastic food pot in one corner which our hamster decided was a toilet, not a food bowl - because it was in a corner! And used to flip the pot out and pee up there (hence the pee running down the shelf and down the ladder!) As you can see in the photo I tried putting the corner litter tray over the pot in that corner. That didn't work. The hamster just used to move the potty and still pee in the pot underneath! And then, when the sloping shelf was covered in pee, he'd end up aquaplaning down the shelf sitting in the potty! Literally he aquaplaned down it!. The shelf isn't flat. The little pod houses attached to the shelf are no good either. They are removable though. Hamsters like them and try and nest in them but they're not big enough and get stinky inside. Plus the top pops off when they stuff too much nesting material inside. I hated that shelf! I think it's about 30 to 35cm each side.

Eventually, when the ladder broke, I got rid of the shelf and was much happier starting with an empty cage from scratch and using the flat roofed house and small shelves.

Note that hanging ladder isn't safe - that was the first thing that got removed!

This was my first hamster set up in that cage. Which evolved gradually to something much better as I got to know about hamsters. I can tell you what's wrong with that set up! Firstly the hanging ladder isn't safe (and has chains). Secondly the wood house is too small. As a result it was ignored and never used. It wouldn't fit under the shelf either. Thirdly, they can't get in and out of the sputnik to use it - unless it's next to a shelf or has a tube leading into it. The ladder from the shelf takes up all the floor space on the right hand side (so the shelf and ladder together use up the space on that side). I could just squeeze the little red bench in there but it was in the way of the ladder access to some degree.

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07-20-2022, 09:00 AM
Pebbles82 Hamster Antics Join Date: Sep 2014 Posts: 23,533	Re: Hamster who bites This is when I first had the cage and had the solid shelf on the right, so you can see how big it is. It took up too much space with the ladder as well - a house wouldn't fit under it. It also had this stupid little inset yellow plastic food pot in one corner which our hamster decided was a toilet, not a food bowl - because it was in a corner! And used to flip the pot out and pee up there (hence the pee running down the shelf and down the ladder!) As you can see in the photo I tried putting the corner litter tray over the pot in that corner. That didn't work. The hamster just used to move the potty and still pee in the pot underneath! And then, when the sloping shelf was covered in pee, he'd end up aquaplaning down the shelf sitting in the potty! Literally he aquaplaned down it!. The shelf isn't flat. The little pod houses attached to the shelf are no good either. They are removable though. Hamsters like them and try and nest in them but they're not big enough and get stinky inside. Plus the top pops off when they stuff too much nesting material inside. I hated that shelf! I think it's about 30 to 35cm each side. Eventually, when the ladder broke, I got rid of the shelf and was much happier starting with an empty cage from scratch and using the flat roofed house and small shelves. Note that hanging ladder isn't safe - that was the first thing that got removed! This was my first hamster set up in that cage. Which evolved gradually to something much better as I got to know about hamsters. I can tell you what's wrong with that set up! Firstly the hanging ladder isn't safe (and has chains). Secondly the wood house is too small. As a result it was ignored and never used. It wouldn't fit under the shelf either. Thirdly, they can't get in and out of the sputnik to use it - unless it's next to a shelf or has a tube leading into it. The ladder from the shelf takes up all the floor space on the right hand side (so the shelf and ladder together use up the space on that side). I could just squeeze the little red bench in there but it was in the way of the ladder access to some degree. Attachment 53452 Last edited by Pebbles82; 11-26-2022 at 04:18 PM.