Recently I was bored and I decided to do something a little bit productive I guess. I took some yarn, a tape measure, some tape and some hamster supplies and decided to put a pictorial thing together of different cage minimums. These are just a few randoms one's that I pulled out of books and off the internet. If you guys have any other ones then I'll add them too I suppose.
I did two separate pictures for each minimum. One reenacting a setup for a single syrian and one for two dwarfs. I used some basic supplies and kept it minimum (wheel, bed, water bottle, food dish, toy). For the syrian setup I used an 8" comfort wheel, a small food dish, an oasis water bottle, and mini (second smallest) igloo and a puzzle playground see-saw. For the dwarf setup I used two 6.5" silent spinner wheels, two itty bitty igloos (smallest size), a large food dish, an oasis water bottle and a puzzle playground see-saw.
I just measured out the yarn to act as the base of each minimum cage size.
Mine (Hamster Hideout's)-- 360 square inches
Syrian's:
Dwarfs':
OSPCA's, Humane Society's, Popular Pets Magazine: Hamsters (Hamsters for Dummies and the Hamster Handbook has similar minimums varying by no more than a few inches)-- 10 gallon/ 2 square feet
Syrian's:
Dwarfs':
RSPCA's 75cm by 50 cm
Syrians:
Dwarfs':
German Style 100cm by 40 cm
Syrian's:
Dwarfs:
One square Metre (mentioned in a German Study):
Syrian's:
Dwarfs:
Hamsters: The Ultimate Pocket Pet by Virginia Parker Guidry's- 19 square inch minimum
Syrian's:
Dwarfs:
That's very interesting but I don't get those two last pictures: do they mean the regular cage according to Virginia Parker should be SO SMALL...??? Maybe it's just a transport cage...?
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In the book that is what she recommended as a cage- not a transport cage. I had others read it as well to see if I was mistaken and was reading it wrong. Alas I wasn't. I do believe that it was a mistake, though a poor one at that. Not every one will realize that and they will think that they're little cage is like a mansion. :(
ReplyDeleteMy goodness...! It's just... barbaric...! :-/ I must say that in Poland there are many big enough (or even bigger) cages you may choose from and that's a huge success. Luckily, we happen to have one of those a bit bigger than the standard one and - as you said - a hammie is completely happy with it :-)
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