Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Are my hamster supplies good enough?

I have to agree with the previous answers. Wire wheels may be easier to clean but they can injure there legs and feet severly. My hamsters previous owner had a wire wheel and while he was running his legs got caught a few times. He also had a big scab on where this happened. For your hamsters saftey use a plastic wheel without anything there feet can get stuck in. Its not a big hazard but accidents do happen. Also there has been studys on Run About about not enough oxygen getting to your hamsters lungs. I personly use them,and i have found nothing wrong with them, so thats just a precaution. Uhmm, other wise everything is fine. Your bedding is fine despite what others say. Some people would not use any wood shavings (aspen cedar ect.) because there was some other scientific studys that the dust particles would get into there sytem. I use cedar, but aspen is perfectly fine. Care fresh would be fine too if you ever wanted something different carefresh would be a good alternative, but you are looking at a higher cost for a littler amount. I personly don't buy it cause it looks quite unnatural. But it is deffinitly OK. So maybe invest in a plastic wheel.(there not much of an investment) they can range from 7-15$. 15$ for being a large wheel. You can probablly get a dwarf wheel for quite cheap, most likely 7$ being on sale, your probablly looking at 10$ for one not on sale and "good" quality. Hope this hepled you!

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