Habitrail Cages

My daughters have one of these cages in there bedroom for there hamster. In the wild hamsters tunnel under ground to make there homes as it is cooler under ground and hamsters come from hot arid countrys. A typical hamsters home in the wild will have a couple of tunnels from the surface going underground (he must be frightened of a fire seen as he has gone to the trouble of making a fire escape.) these will lead to a chamber he will have dug to live in and off this chamber will be several tunnels to store his food in or go to the toilet in. Habitrail have designed there cages with different compartments and tunnels to recreate this ...

Caution! Sadly my hamster Nobbie broke his leg in the Habitrail hamster-weel that comes with the Habitrail Playground, and had to be put to sleep! The accident happened when he got his tiny foot stuck in one of the several gaps between the two plastic sides that comes together to make out the wheel. Prior to the accident I also observed how he found it a bit scary to use the wheel, as his poor hamster eyesight prevented him from always seeing where to step, as one side of the Habitrail-wheel is transparent .(All hamsters have poor eyesight.) But it never occured to me that he could get his foot caught and breake his leg! Other hamster-owners ...

Having an 8 year old animal lover, desperate for a hamster doesn't really present too many problems....you go to the pet shop, choose the cutest hamster, pop him/her in a box and off you go. However, choosing a home for the hamster is a totally different matter. Go into any large pet shop and you might mistake it for "Hammy Hamster's Estate Agency". The array of cages is quite phenominal. You can have anything from a basic red plastic and wire cage to a total space station, as well as a playground, a castle and whole number of other little scenaric homes. These developments in "hamster abodes" are mostly under the name of ...