Cages with front opening

[SKB_Hamsters]

I personally prefer top opening cage. My cages are diy. My hamster haven’t been spooked from hand coming from above but I never put my hand in directly above them. I let them come to me and they will climb into my hand to come out. Although I never put a young hamster straight into my diy they go into a temporary cage until they have tamed and used to being handled as a hand coming from above would be terrifying.

I find it’s a lot easier for me to interact with them and also easier to change bottles and do cage cleans without having to worry about my hamsters especially my females trying to push their way out of the cage which I always found a challenge of trying to keep them from escaping when I had a barred cage with a front door