The Dayang Hamster Cage is a two-level wire cage on a deep coloured base, with a raised platform, a slide and a wheel.
Key Features
- Deeper base than the small model, which holds more bedding before it spills.
- Raised platform with a slide down to the floor.
- 35.5 cm long, 26.6 cm wide, 40.5 cm high.
- Wheel, water bottle and house included.
- Wire top lifts clear of the base for cleaning.
Good To Know
- Floor area is about 944 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.
- 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.
- Hamsters are heat-sensitive. Above about 24 C a Syrian can drop into a torpor that looks like death. Keep the cage out of direct sun and away from a window in summer.
- 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.