Cara's new cage

Basia · 01-09-2008, 05:58 PM

Cara is my one and only bar-biter now. Pudding has given up since she had her wodent wheel. Cara has been out to play for a long time this evening and in her ball but as soon as she went back in her gabber she started chewing the bars and she hasn't stopped for hours. So I have moved her into my new 'bargain' cage which was still empty because I couldn't decide which lucky hamster was going to get it. Try as she might - she can't reach the roof! (I don't think the water bottle is going to run out any time soon either).
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souffle · 01-10-2008, 01:16 AM

I love that cage Basia and it looks like a perfect solution fpr a roof chewer. The lid is lovely and clear and it is roomy too. Let's just hope she does not learn to jump!

chase · 01-10-2008, 02:27 AM

That house looks great, where did u get it from. My syrian charlie is a bar chewer and made his nose bare so thinking of changing his cage.

Hanlou · 01-10-2008, 02:57 AM

Aw bless her, in that first pic she is the picture of innocence! "Me? Chew my bars? As if I would do anything like that..."

But then in the bottom pic you can see she's trying to work out how to get to them....

That's a nice cage, nice set up too. Bless her!

Holly · 01-10-2008, 03:32 AM

It looks wonderful, how lucky my baby is - and how lucky YOU are thwarting her chewing behaviour! Bless her, I can see her trying to figure out how to reach those bars

I've tried removing the shelf from my rex cages to mimic what you've done here - unfortunately they stand on potties/beds etc and can still reach

I'd be seriously interested in getting one of these cages to try - do you fancy doing a cage review perhaps when you have the time? :P

Basia · 01-10-2008, 03:54 AM

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Originally Posted by chase

That house looks great, where did u get it from. My syrian charlie is a bar chewer and made his nose bare so thinking of changing his cage.

I'm not sure if this actual cage is made anymore, I got it greatly reduced from a garden centre and it had a large wire floor which I took out. (There is a thread about it somewhere, Catja kindly told me the cage was there).
The main body of the cage looks the same as the Ferplast Duna which has a plastic floor. The space-station thing came with the cage and Cara seems to love that.

**Spuds Mum** · 01-10-2008, 07:54 AM

Excuse me Gill - how on earth did you manage to steal my hamster???!!!!

when you said these sisters were alike I didn't know you meant ALIKE lol.
You've done really well in thwarting her efforts. Bronte is a bar chewer too and we tried doing the roof run with chubes but she has just chewed a hole in the top of one of the chubes and we can see her lying on her back with her teeth wrapped round the gabber top! so basically we've just made it easier for the little madam!

Love your set up - that cage seems to have the advantage of the Gabber without the one tiny disadvantage - them being able to reach the roof!

Holly · 01-10-2008, 08:56 AM

Milly, the third triplet, is a bar (and water bottle!) chewer as well - aarrgghh

**Spuds Mum** · 01-10-2008, 10:24 AM

Isn't it strange that they all have the same mannerisms too? I think Ive said before though, how much I love these hamsters with 'personality' Bronte (and it sounds Cara and Milly) have it in buckets!

Bronte is never boring - she's always doing something that gets me either laughing or telling her off! And when I do tell her off - she just looks at me in a wounded sort of way and I just melt.

She even helped me write an email to new member Yaffle the other day - was sat on my laptop and composing by climbing all over the keys - so sweet.

They are all gorgeous girls Julie x

**babyboos** · 01-10-2008, 10:50 AM

Ferplast used to do a cage like that with a wire floor but pressure made them stop production thank goodness as babies used to get killed under the wire - it was supposed to make changing the litter layer easier... It looks very similiar in dimension to the Gabber (Montana) and the lovely way you have laid out the interior is a grea idea for those second hand Gabber's you find on eBay with no inner platform - or if it starts to get a bit tired and gnawed on, like a lot of mine do, especially if you put a bar-biter in them - I find they start off destroying the ladders and the big hole where the food bowl sits in before finally getting fed up.