What is best to do?

KatiePillow · 12-29-2010, 08:36 AM

I adopted another hamster...but she is DEFINITELY my last, she's a fully grown Chinese hamster (she was excess stock, but had been in the adoption centre a month without any interest =/) she's very nervous and I don't think she has climbed yet.

ANYWAY, I currently have her in a 76x30 cm aquarium, she has plenty of hidey holes (although I have had to take the lid off her bed because she was peeing in it =/ ) but I was thinking of moving her to a fop duffy I have, as it'd be far easier to clean, would give her the chance to climb more, and it seems like the better option in the long run (ventilation, and I think she'd feel less exposed)
The fop duffy is 57cm by 30, and I've already tried her with the bars and she can't get through them.

I'm concerned that she'd constantly try to get out though =/and could end up hurting herself,

There are negatives of both cages.. so I don't know whether to switch her over or not, I'll have had her a week tomorrow, so don't know what to do

I will also have a spare mini duna soon, since my boyfriend is taking one of our dwarves back to live with him, (he lived there before, but had to stay with me over christmas) So I could move her into there?

Sorry for the excessively long ramble..but I don't really know which'd make her happiest =/

thanks in advance!

Katie

fluffymunchkins · 12-29-2010, 11:14 AM

Whats the bar width of the fop duffy?

She might benefit from a smaller cage as shes nervous, but i personally would avoid bar cages for chinese unless the bar spacing is very small.
The mini duna would be a good option

KatiePillow · 12-29-2010, 11:19 AM

I put her in duffy (the upturned lid) and she tried her hardest to get out, but she couldn't... the thing I worry about is if she were to keep trying to escape =/ might hurt her head >.<
I thought she would be able to get out tbh, but she couldn't. (I wasn't cruel about it..I realise it sounds like I was D: )
I might go for the duna but I know chinese hamsters like to climb, and some people suggest barred cages and other tank >.< it's tricky.
I think she would rather a smaller cage though, at the moment she spends most her time underground (I buried some tubes for her to make her less nervous) >.<

Podling · 12-29-2010, 11:24 AM

I'd go for the duna, maybe get one of those hanging trixie things? I have a few if you want me to send you down one. But if she's nervous I recon the duna would be good as it's small so hopefully a bit less daunting.
P.S. Another hamster?!

mangoandmimi · 12-29-2010, 11:28 AM

i'd go for the duna, it seems good for a dwarf, i mean it has bars on the top so you could add a trixie suspension bridge or something

just a thought

KatiePillow · 12-29-2010, 11:32 AM

I knoww..chris is stealing pillow back D: and this little thing has been in there forever, she was in there before alfie..and I just felt so sorry for her =[
and I think I will go for the duna, not sure about the hanging trixie things because she seems to be a chewer, and aren't those the things with the rope? thanks so much for the offer

I'm going on a big spending spree when I get paid :3 going to invest in silent spinners for them all, as well as a lot of toys for sandy.

No more cages though (I want to get sandy the zz2 but have no space)

Sorry for off topic >.<
But yeah, might give her the duna, but without the shelf, and put a big branch or something in instead

Mangoandmimi -
Yeah, it's a great size for dwarves, I really like them as a cage, might just keep the duffy as a spare and relegate the evil heavy aquarium to the shed

fluffymunchkins · 12-29-2010, 11:34 AM

I've read they like to climb too, but i have bacardi in the gabber rex and its really good for him. All the climbing toys i've tried he completely ignores!

Podling · 12-29-2010, 11:36 AM

Yes, they do, I think you can get other bridges though, IDK. I havent actually put any in for Fudge yet so the jurys out on them at the moment but they *should* be ok. I think they do other ones like this though: Trixie hanging house with the bark on and no rope... Good luck!

Edit: Ok that has a tiny it of rope but you could take it off, I only just saw it!

KatiePillow · 12-29-2010, 11:38 AM

darn! wanted to see her tail curl around things.. D:
She doesn't use her wheel or anything =/ going to buy her a silent spinner, to make sure it's not that the wheel is too heavy.
will move her into a mini duna once pillow has moved out then

, may try hanging toys, as well as branches..if she isn't interested, I'll just have to deal with it >.<

fluffymunchkins · 12-29-2010, 11:40 AM

i love stroking bacardis tail and it curls round my finger liek a happy Piggys