The Dayang Hamster Cage is a wire cage on a deep plastic base with wooden-look platforms, a slide and a wheel.
Key Features
- 45 x 30 cm floor with a deep base that takes a real depth of bedding.
- Platforms and a slide already fitted.
- 45 cm high, with a wire top that lifts off in one piece.
- Wheel, house and water bottle included.
- Carry handle in the roof.
Good To Know
- Floor area is about 1350 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.