I just have a quick question, we recently adopted out Syrian Gracie from a local rescue. We've only had her a few weeks and have already fallen in love with her, she's got such a good bond with my little sister already. Anyway she's very messy, most mornings I go into the room where her cage is to fill her water bottle and her cage is destroyed. She's in a Zoozone 2 and chooses to sleep in her purple tube which stretches out and you can make different shapes with it. What she does is she moves all the substrate (aspen) from one side of the cage to another, she burries her purple tube under all the substrate leaving the side of her cage where her wheel is bare. Her sand box, food bowl and igloo are also buried under the substrate. My question is should I just leave her cage or continue to tidy it back to how it is before she messes it? I was thinking of burying her tube under the substrate and just leave the openings to it popping out. She's such a strange hamster haha x
I have a tube like that too and my ham likes it being buried. If she's in a Zoozone she can't push any of the bedding out of the cage so I'd be tempted to get as much in there as you can, she obviously likes pushing it around Cc used to bury everything in her cage too, I just put her bowl up on a platform so she couldn't bury that and let her do what she liked with the rest of it!
LOL they will arrange how they like. I'd be inclined to try and accomodate her. Give her a nice deep substrate as she seems inclined to dig in it. I like the idea of the buried tube as long as you can keep an eye on it in case she pees in it or it hasn't adequate ventilation and gets soggy. Put her sand box and food on the other side of the deep pile. If you can, you might try using a bendy bridge on its side to divide the cage so you can keep the deep substrate on one side more easily. Depends how she decides to rearrange that, no guarantees.
Oh and I'd love a before and after picture.
That's a really good idea using a bendy bridge to section of the cage, she actually has a bendy bridge in her cage already. Also I took a picture of her cage this morning after she'd finished messing it up haha I will post it some time this weekend. I'm going out tonight so maybe Saturday or Sunday I will fill her cage with some more substrate and bury her tube. I know she doesn't pee in that because I check it once a week to clean out any nasty stuff. She has a corner which she likes to use as her toilet. Thanks for the suggestionsx
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Cc used to bury everything in her cage too, I just put her bowl up on a platform so she couldn't bury that and let her do what she liked with the rest of it!
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