Starting to smell!

[souffle]

as herbi7 said it is actually pretty unusual for a young hamster to be making the cage smell in such a short period of time. They usually hardly wee much at all when young.
Monitor how much your hammy is drinking and how wet her wee corner is. Does she chew the bottle spout by any chance?
Also ensure her house and other toys have good ventilation. Some people are very sensitive to the smell of hamsters and you may be one of those. Can you ask anyone else to check if the cage smells bad to them?

[candice clews]

Hi, I use sawdust/woodshavings for the base of my hamsters cages and shredded paper for bedding. We shred the paper our selves with a shredder so it doesn't cost a thing!

[Nancy's Hamsters]

Sunfire is just a fancy store gimmick to sell Mandarin Hybrids for a much higher outrageous price I suspect Diabetes sad to say.

[Caboose]

I think she pees inside her little house where she sleeps. So how would I go about putting the sand in there?

[Caboose]

It doesn't smell terrible. I only smell it when I'm close to her house. I change out the bedding once a week. I just bought more bedding and plan to change it again. I've never seen her chew the bottle. And I've seen her only get water maybe about once or twice a day. She could do more at night. I think she pees inside her house. It's not wet when I feel it though.

[Caboose]

I went up to the house and it doesn't smell at all. Its weird. It only smells somtimes during the day

[Jenibelle]

Is it possible you're smelling her when she goes into heat? They go into heat every four days.

[cypher]

It could be when she's in heat but also sometimes I notice a little bit of a smell when they pee but then the smell just dissipates.
If she's peeing in her nest put the litter tray next to her house, take some of the soiled nesting material & put it on top of the sand, with any luck she will begin to use it.
Cleaning everything out once a week is too much & will make her feel unsafe as her scent keeps disappearing, just spot clean taking out wet or smelly bedding but leave everything else for about a month & give her a chance to settle.
She may be peeing in her house because she feels safer in there & be more inclined to use the tray as she gains confidence.
From what you've said so far & my very limited experience (one diabetic ham) it doesn't sound as though you need to be worrying about diabetes although it is something you always have to be aware of with hybrids if you see signs of excessive drinking or peeing or behavioural changes.

[Caboose]

So I began moving the soiled stuff from her little house to a small tray right outside her house. And she began hissing at me. I've never seen her do that. It sounded like she was pissed. I gave her a millet and she calmed down. If she doesn't start peeing on the tray what should I do?

[Caboose]

Can I teach her to pee in something like this. It's pretty cool. It says for bathe but I was wondering if she could learn to only pee on the chinchilla sand in this thing.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0010OO6EQ..._Z.ZOwbDZK0KGV