The Dayang Hamster Cage is the smallest cage in Dayang's rodent range - a two-level wire cage on a coloured plastic base with a wheel and a water bottle.

Key Features

• Compact enough for a desk or a shelf, at 30 x 23 cm.
• Upper platform with a ramp, a wheel and a water bottle included.
• Wire top lifts off the base for cleaning.
• Carry handle in the roof.
• Sold with the accessories fitted, so nothing else is needed to set it up.

Good To Know

• Floor area is about 690 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.
• At this size it is better used as a travel or hospital cage, or as one room of a larger setup, than as a hamster's only home.
• 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.