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07-05-2021, 06:40 PM
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Newborn Pup
Join Date: May 2021
Posts: 19
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Tubes
We attached some tubes to Lolas cage. She goes in but she won’t come out. She’s even put some of her bedding in there. Those tubes are way too hard for me to open. How do I get her out of there? My dad attached the tubes for me but I can’t bring the cage every day to my parents house so he can open the tubes and attach them again. How do I get her out on my own?
Ps she DOES know how to get out of the tubes. She has come out. She chewed on the treat I left in her cage and on morning I found her in the cage instead of the tubes but how so I lure her out of there so I can actually play with her and pet her?
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07-05-2021, 10:09 PM
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House of Hamsters
Join Date: Mar 2019
Location: Wiltshire, UK
Posts: 7,103
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Re: Tubes
Going by my experience with foster hamsters, they usually stay in tubes because they don't have the kind of set up they need with a big house to sleep, nest and hoard in. They need things like a shelf to sit under and plenty of hides like a coconut and tunnels aside from a big wheel and plenty of substrate of course.
I've not long ago fostered a female Syrian who was in a tube of a small cage and didn't have a house or hides. She screeched when i took her out of the tube and put her in an Alaska cage but immediately moved into the big Ferplast guinea pig house. Once out of the tube and in a good sized cage with plenty of things to do, she was very sociable and keen for out of cage time.
Aside from the fact that you can't interact with a hamster in a tube they can cause problems because of the lack of ventilation.
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07-12-2021, 05:41 PM
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#3
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Newborn Pup
Join Date: May 2021
Posts: 19
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Re: Tubes
I just got rid of them. I bought them cause I thought it would give her something to go in and out of them. She was crapping in them. Building a nest and she wouldn’t come out for days.
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07-13-2021, 01:24 AM
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House of Hamsters
Join Date: Mar 2019
Location: Wiltshire, UK
Posts: 7,103
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Re: Tubes
Quote:
Originally Posted by LolasMom
I just got rid of them. I bought them cause I thought it would give her something to go in and out of them. She was crapping in them. Building a nest and she wouldn’t come out for days.
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Good call. Tubes do have their uses. I use short ones ( short enough to clean with a bottle brush without removing) as an access tube to get from a house onto a shelf for example. Our hamsters like them and use them for that purpose but if they'd nest in them i'd remove them immediately.
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