Hamster cage
We were really excited about this cage as it looked all singing and dancing. Putting it together was very fiddly, a child certainly couldn't have done it without damaging some of the plastic attachments. The clips did not actually hold the cage together properly and and meant cleaning it out was difficult. The water bottle leaked horribly which immediately soaked the space below - of which there isn't much. The ferris wheel was quite fragilely clipped in too. When the mice used the cage they weed and pooed in the wheel and tubing, which leaked out and was again very difficult to clean. They slept in the little tunnel bit, which meant they had very little else to do in the rest of cage, which is surprisingly small.
Death trap... PLEASE don't buy this item!
The other 1 star reviews say it all, really, I don't need to re-iterate how BAD this design is. But thought I would add that our hamster nearly died TWICE because of this piece of crap. When new, we put our furry little friend in her new home on a shelf next to the TV. Next morning, the cage is EMPTY - the door in the top hub feels secure from the outside but is easily opened from the inside. When we found her, she was covered in blood and brain damaged - she'd fallen from the shelf and the fall/landing had caused a massive brain hemmorage. We had to spoon-feed her soaked and mashed up food and water round the clock. God knows how but she made a full recovery (although now she's VERY jumpy).
We thought it was our fault and we hadn't shut the top properly, so put the cage back on the shelf. About a week later, I was reading and happened to look up just in time to see our hamster walking along the edge of the shelf again - the wheel had become dislodged this time, creating a...
Not good
The cage is a nightmare to put together and quite flimsy. The real killer with cage is when the hamster decides to load his food into his cheeks and disgorge it into the wheel. The wheel will then rattle horribly until it is emptied which is not easy.
For a few pounds more there a some really good Rotostack cages out there.
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