The Dayang Fantastic Hamster Cage is a taller, narrower wire cage on a plastic tray, supplied with a house, feeder, drinker, spiral slide and wheel.
Key Features
- Complete set in the box - house, feeder, automatic drinker, spiral slide and running wheel.
- Taller than it is wide, at 40.6 cm high on a 34.6 x 27.5 cm tray.
- Plastic tray cleans with household detergent and a rinse.
- No tools needed to put it together.
- Dayang supplies it in pink, blue, brown and red.
Available in: Pink, blue, brown or red. Colour is assorted and not selectable, so the one you receive may not match the photograph.
Good To Know
- Floor area is about 952 sq cm. Current welfare guidance puts the minimum unbroken floor for a Syrian hamster at around 4,000 sq cm, and tubes, shelves and upper storeys do not count towards it.
- Height suits mice and gerbils better than hamsters. A Syrian that falls from an upper level onto a hard tray can be badly hurt.
- Hamsters burrow. Give at least 15 to 20 cm of bedding depth in part of the enclosure. A hamster with nowhere to dig bar-chews instead, and bar-chewing is a sign of stress rather than boredom.
- Check the wheel. A Syrian hamster needs one of about 28 cm across or its back stays arched as it runs, and a dwarf needs about 20 cm. The wheel supplied with a cage this size is usually smaller than that and is worth replacing.
- Syrian hamsters live alone. Two in one cage will fight, often fatally, however well they got on as babies. Only some dwarf species tolerate company, and even then not reliably.
- Not a rabbit or guinea pig cage, whatever a listing says. Both need several times this floor area and solid flooring.
- Small rodents hide illness. A wet tail, laboured breathing, a wet chin, sudden weight loss or a hamster that stays shut in its house all day needs a vet who sees exotics, quickly.