Bad Cage Review | Midwest Critterville Arcade Hamster Cage | Munchie's Place
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- čas přidán 25. 08. 2024
- Midwest is the maker of the Ferret Nation, Critter Nation and Guinea Pig Enclosures. But what about their top Hamster enclosure? This here is advertised on amazon as being the top selling hamster cage. With its mostly positive reviews, is this cage really appropriate for your hamster? Today we will look at the Critterville Arcade cage! Enjoy.
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A while ago had someone come into my pet store talking about how they “spoiled” their Syrian, Peanut, because they got this cage.. I explained how bad this cage is- and how he would probably love more space. They kept talking about how they spoiled him and I’m the only person who disagrees with them.. I pissed them off but I guess what I said resonated with them and they ended up coming back in and asking me to teach them how to make a bin cage because he started biting. Peanut is much happier now, and he no longer bites.
Savanna R. Your really good to educate them people. My local pet shop does not tell people what sizes. I saw people buying the smallest cage ever and I tried to tell them it was too small, I’m only 11 years old and they wouldn’t believe me.
Anna Animals Hey it’s fantastic that you made the attempt to educate them! I’m 20 AND I work in a pet store and people still don’t even listen to me sometimes. At 11 it’s very impressive that you’re attempting to spread proper information. Keep it up!
Thank you xxxx
Thats good to know!
@@annamcauliffe7772 im just becoming 10 and i cant get through to people the same age as me. Not even to my best friend dont get me wrong she is the best best friend i ever had just no body listens to me
Her putting all the decor and hides in that tiny cage is how i feel when reptile owners have tiny ass cages and think its ok. It Pains My Heart! Thanks for making these videos munchie!
yeah its like they think reptiles don't move much so they don't need much space
A lot of people think reptiles don't need enrichment. Those people are stupid.
Totally agree, I get pissed off when people say snakes only grow to the size of the enclosure and don't need the space grrr. My bearded dragon was kept in a 3ft for 5 years before I got him and has MBD in he's hips. he's now in a 6ft and loves to waddle around he's enclosure chasing locusts 😁
@@flame-29936 me too. I would never put a beardie in anything under 70 gallons. I have one and I am currently working towards getting him a 120 because his 70 is starting to be a little small! I have talked to people online , one in particular that legit said "I wouldn't have gotten a beardie if they needed over a 40 gallon tank" and argued with me for a solid half hour. Eventually they saw how small it actually was next to a adult, I think they upgraded to a 36x24x24 (90 gallons) the next week. highly annoying but time well spent. The worst is when I saw someone with (I kid you not) had a subadult central bearded dragon in a ten gallon. Reptiles totally don't grow to the size of the enclosure, that lizard was proof. Even with improper care all the way around, this beardie could touch both sides of the skinny way with the tail even bending around the corner.
@@Abby-um5rd That's terrible, I'm glad you managed to convince them. I'm not sure how many gallons my viv is but it's the size of a single bed. I work with a group of friends that search sites like shpock, gumtree etc and give people advice on alternative ways to give away their animals (adoption shelters) or remind them to at least do home checks, advise different enclosures or alternative uses for small ones etc and try to do it in a peaceful/educational/non confrontational way .... but occasionally you meet that one guy that breaks the chains on your mood swing and can't help but argue back 😂 especially when you can clearly see the animal suffering 😟
Was actually going to "upgrade" my hamster from a crittertrail to this, luckily I ran into your Kaytee reviews right before and thankfully got educated enough to upgrade her to a massive (890sqin) bin cage.
Yep, just discovered this channel, cutting the losses of the starter kit cage and upgrading asap. The size comparison was shocking.
That's awesome! Your hamster is lucky!
@@hopstepjumpsplat omg yasss we love that
Yay
Glad for you and your hamster!
We have to write an article for school and I am gonna write about people not researching the care for different pets 😊
Right on!
How did it go!?
Yesssss
I did mine on hamsters
That's great people need to learn
When are we gonna step us as a society and make the small cages illegal?
Symphony Sonic 🙌🏻🙌🏻
When we find the person who makes all the laws in the world
Man I feel you. Cropping dog's ears and tail is still legal most places and so is declawing cats. Debarking is also still legal for dogs in most of the US. Pets are not treating well by the law.
Bird community got your back on this one. Especially if we throw in making round cages illegal while we are at it!
I wish now
Damn. I didn't know. I'm gonna have to toss my little Kaytee and get me a bigger cage. My robo is small but deserves better.
TouchedbyCastiel thank you 🙏
Your hammie is gonna love you for it!
TouchedbyCastiel It’s ok we’ve all been there, I had a robo too so small but very active they’d love more space to explore x
Yeeesss, what a lucky hammy🙋🏻♀️☺️
Great! Good luck finding one over 450sq inches
For an extra $10, you can get a detolf instead of this Midwest cage
Unless you don't have an IKEA near you, in which case you have to pay an extra $40 for shipping.
Ella Hendrickson Mine was like $60
Ella Hendrickson $40🤣🤣. It was going to cost me almost 200 to ship... I just drove the 3 + hours. Gas was wayyy cheaper. Spend $10 more for lid equipment. Still funny though 😁
Wow
Or if you wanna save money, go with a Walmart bin that is 3 times the size of that horrible cage
I'm not gonna lie, I thought that cage was an ANT FARM. 😥
I thought it was for zhuzhu pets, not actual live animals.
Not suitable for ants lol why would ants need a wheel
The thing is that I'm pretty sure ants need more space than this...
@@Alexis-bs7ep actually no🤗
But as soon as the colony reaches about 500 animals you will need a bigger enclosure.
Welp
My hamsters sand bath is bigger than that cage...
It looks like a play set for ZuhZuh hamsters
Colleen Martin that is sadly true
That’s good
Dont be so rude
Have u posted any videos any where of ur hamsters cage I rlly wanna see it that sounds cool 🐀✨
First Oxbow, now Midwest?!? These companies might make great products for “larger” small animals with hay based diets, but they seriously need to stay in their lanes and out of hamster products if they can’t make adequate stuff 😪
At first they make good cages that are okay for animals to get our attention then they screw over the hamsters or something! Hamster death trao
They should stick to lagamorphs like rabbits
Right? I absolutely adore their guinea pig cage (I use two for every pair of my guinea pigs) but how do they think that this is good enough for a hamster :((
I was friends with the ferret and they love the ferret enclosure /cage thing they sell
I'm sorry but I just NEED to congratulate your profile picture
The positive amazon reviews showing poor Syrians locked up in that tiny torture chamber with statements like "My hamster loves it!" are both scary and heartbreaking.
My Syrian is in a 617 sq in cage and I still wish I could give her more. I don’t see how people can put their hammies in things under 200 sq in and be comfortable with it.
Why can’t you? Yah I can’t wait to upgrade mine which is under 450sq inches
Well she was originally in a 400 sq in but then I learnt she needed way more than that so I bought the 617 sq in she is in now and it cost quite a lot. If I get some more money for Christmas and maybe my birthday (which is a few months after) I will definitely look into getting something bigger. :)
Mirrie613 the ikea detolf is a really cheap “hamster cage” for its size
@@mikey6858 oh ok
Dave A lot of people aren’t located near IKEA. They are very sparsely located in the US, and shipping a detolf can be very expensive.
they should put the designer of this teeny tiny cage into a small cupboard or more appropriatly let him try living in a confined prison cell and see how he likes it.
Rosemarie Urwin could be a her but I agree with what your saying
yeah.
that cage is awful. anyone who has their hamster in this please do better.
Amanda Masucci i agree
We are coming for those who dont apead the hamster law!!!
I had this cage for my last hamster. I tried to make it as nice as possible with different toys to chew on and hideouts. I agree it was small and my hamster wasn’t happy. I didn’t know that cheaper but bigger cages existed. I thought a big cage would costs over a hundred dollars and I was an unemployed teen living with a single mom. I have a job now and I’m getting a hamster again soon. This time I’ve gotten a 600 (I think) sq. Inch bin cage.
she looked so scared she didnt know what to do i will say i feel terrible for the poor hamsters that have to deal with cages like these they are small tiny and clearly dont make a hamster happy at all i believe others should investigate into an animal and what it needs before they buy it i love your videos and keep up the amazing work munchie
I almost bought this for my dwarf hamster i'm about to get but then I watched this review and returned it and got a bin cage instead. Honestly was the same price with buying all my accessories but the hamster has a lot more space. Thanks for saving me money!
Hamsters everywhere thank you for doing your research.
thats just so tiny! I like the midwest cage for guinea pigs but even for guinea pigs, having two is better. There is more room to zoom around and popcorn. Hamster care has changed so much since I owned one. I appreciate watching these videos. If I own anothe hamster I want to do the Ikea cage. I've seen soo many kool ideas with that cage!
The 13 dislikers: “Grrrrrr UGH MUNCHIE I like that cage *whips hair back in sassy motion* and my hamster loves it, I want to speak to your manager”
your hamster "loves it." yeah right, dislikers
more like YOU like it
😂
I almost got that enclosure for my hamster until I watched your cage reviews. I’m so glad that you reviewed this one :)
Same I recently adopted my hamster peanut (who is a Syrian) and I didn’t know he would get so big so know I looking to upgrade my cage and I was going to get this one but then I watched this and it completely changed me mind :)
Munchies Place :
¨its straining your back to be arching your back all the time¨
The girls at my school:
Am I a joke to you?
Thank you for making these videos and emphasizing proper hammy care ❤ I have a robo and I would be devastated to have this cage for his home. 😖
i do so love it when munchie gets her full pasiv agresive sass on : )
its a toy for children for their plush hamsters or hatchimas
is it even good for mice?
hi waffles!
I had that cage for a few days when I first got my hamster, I then found your videos and Victoria Rachel’s also. I immediately bought more tubes and attached 2 huge homade bin cages. She was happy but I ended up getting her a 40 gallon breeder to prevent escaping!
Pets are so exploited just for our fun and profit. Thank you for these videos hopefully people will take note and buy or make an appropriate cage.
It strikes me that the connector cages are also not the best if you have predator animals in the home, or even small children. They come apart and/or break pretty easily, plus these guys can chew through plastic if they get desperate enough. If we ever end up with hamsters, I’ll definitely be housing them in Prevues.
Poor sirian in those tiny wheel. I have a backache only when see this
Thank you so much. I was going to buy that cage. After watching this video it shows how they trick you. I just ordered the big cage that you suggested. And I already feel better knowing that my pet is not going to live with no space😀
I had this for like a week, I yeeted it pretty quickly. My hammy now has a big cage
Your channel is saving my life (and my hamster's).
Oh my gosh I can't believe those people had their hamsters in there and on that wheel. I have has a Syrian hamster, dwarf hamster, gerbils, and mice and I have never put them in those small cages that people buy just because it looks nice
Doesn’t feel like an arcade to me if it’s cramped
some classrooms in my school have rlly tiny cages with a hamster in it nd its never quiet there :( i said what they did wrong nd told them about bin cages but they didnt change anything yet
same
WHY CANT WE GET A MIDWEST GUINEA HABIT OR A PREVEIW OR A HUGE AQUARIUM INSTEAD
@@aniyaturner6 using guinea pig habitats for hamsters is kinda iffy because the wire spacing might not be small enough to prevent them from squeezing through, especially if theyre anything smaller than a syrian.
@@aniyaturner6 Why would you have a hamster as permanent pet in the classroom to begin with? My classmates back when would have thrown so much trash into the enclosure just to see what the hamster does with it …
Class pets can be just fine as long as the teacher knows what the heck they’re doing.
Whyyy just go on facebook market place or ebay etc and get a very cheap ikea detolf and spend about 10 bucks on some rodent mesh and zipties for a lid! It's literally the cheapest method other than bin cages and it's way better for the hamster? Why these types of shitty cages at insanely high prices are still in circulation blows my mind.
I'm on several rehoming pages and always recommend these videos for care tips and cage sizes
Omg before I knew much about hamsters I was gonna get this cage for my Syrian because it looked bigger than the pet store cages!! As I did more research though I realized they needed more space and she lives in detolf and so does my other hamster!
I saw this all over amazon and I was waiting for someone to review it !
Thank you so much, Munchie! I have been watching your videos for a long time, and I am trying to get a hamster. I admire so much all of the work you do, and the amount of information you give to ignorant people. Thank you for everything you do! I love you and your channel so much!
I have never seen anyone with a more perfect eye shape for winged liner
It hurts me to see that. Especially the reviews...
I know you can make mistakes with pet owning, but this isn't a mistake anymore. I had 4 hamsters in my life, and I know I made mistakes too, but even my first enclosure for them was not as tiny and cruel as this one.
With my last two hamsters I finally improved a lot!
Cage was 60 x 120 x 60 cm (~ 24 x 74 x 24 inches) in size, bedding was 17-20 cm (~ 7-8 inches) deep and their wheel had a 40 cm (~16 inches) diameter.
I never was that tiny as those bad cages.. and I'm so glad that even with only a little knowledge at the beginning (back then you wouldn't really find infos online and had to mostly trust employees....) I wouldn't even think of buying something so ridiculous and cruel, wouldn't like to use plastic either.
I'm glad nowadays there a people who try to spread awareness, like you and many others, pet stores started selling more friendly and realistic - in size - cages (at least in my country) and so on... still sad that there a still such products to buy.. and that people really buy those things and think nothing of it.
My hamster wheel IS LITERALLY LITERALYY! BIGGER THAN THAT CAGE!
Same here!
That cage feels to me like a doll house, I prefer a big aquarium, my Campbell russian hamster, Dumpling, loves it!
I wanted to thank you! I started watching ur videos to do researching for owning a hamster, I didn’t know anything before but now I have a 528 preview cage, tons of toys, and a large wheel and my little Darwin couldn’t be happier! If I hadn’t watched ur videos he would have been stuck in a 400 square inch cage. I just wanted to say that you made a hammy’s life much happier!
I’m literally 11 and have my first ever hamster in a german themed detolf
Munchie and everyone reading the comments I just wanted to share with y’all... I have a female Syrian hamster named Peanut when we got her from the petstore we did no research on hamster what so ever so we got her the Kaytee 360 hamster cage. After this I did a lot of research and watched your channel she also has a wheel about this size and I didn’t know her back wasn’t supposed to be like that. But don’t worry!!! Thanks to your channel in around 8-9 days she will be getting the ikea detolf!!! Thank you so much 😊
youre putting your hamster in an ikea cabinet?
Poor Waffles looked so stressed and panicked in there when he had to go under the wheel and on the ramp or in the tunnels! This should be illegal!
A bit off topic, but your outfit & earring are really cute!
Oop I have that cage time to change I’m getting that ikea thing on Christmas
Thank you! Your hammy will thoroughly enjoy it!
My Chinese hamster, Iroh, loves his prevue 528. I'm planning on making a diy cage that is over 1000 square inches so he has more space to explore.
Iroh as in iroh from avatar?
@@Leo-tu8gh Yep.
I was about to get this cage since i was a first timer, but thanks to this video we are getting a bigger cage! :)
I’m disappointed in Mid west, the ferret nation IS THE BEST ferrret cage out there, and the hamster cage is the worse 😢
If you REALLY want an aesthetically pleasing cage don’t get one of those cheap torture devices. Get a glass aquarium! You can make them colorful with bedding, hides, and toys. They can run around and those tanks can look really pretty and nice!
I live in the UK and it’s only in the 2nd half of 2022 that I’ve noticed a bigger selection of appropriate cages in pet shops like pets at home and it took ages but I’m glad the change has finally happened also when I bought my current hamster from there recently (ik ik it’s bad but our pet shop breeders are better than the US I swear) and the employee selling it to me checked how big my cage was (it’s 850sq inches so quite big dw) and made me buy a 12” wheel (I needed one anyway since my last was a robo and she only had an 8”) before I even got to see the hamsters which I thought was amazing. The employee was like a younger munchie and is a big advocate for proper hamster care which is also amazing!
The top of that cage looks like a level from Super Mario.
tO wAtCh yOuR HaMsTeR iN AcTiOn!1!!!
or... or you could get a glass enclosure....
I just found out my cage was 2400sq inches for my Syrian.😂 Lmfao I am freaking out, I was worried for NOTHING.😂 The preview 528 needs to sponsor you lol. Though it is upsetting that these small animals are being treated like they don’t even matter.💢
omg what cage do you have?? :000
I absolutely love your channel and what you do, this cage is horrible and im glad you reviewed it. You could see how uncomfortable waffles in it.
The clip of that Syrian makes me want to cry
'Don't do multi-level, guys'
Munchie joins the anti-MLM community confirmed.
Oh! I actually own the midwest guinea pig cage and it works very well! If you don't get all the extra crap, it works quite nicely and I have a very happy guinea pig living there. Their hamster cage can die in a hole, though.
What a craptastic cage, it looks cheap and definitely not cheerful.
IK! I'm a kid and ik it's small
My dad recently bought this cage for my hamster, I told him it wasn’t suitable, now I have a bin cage that I plan on upgrading because currently it is too small! Thank you for this video I will be sharing this with him because he still hasn’t returned it!
I almost got this cage for the hamster I was thinking of getting, them I realized the base was too small for a Syrian hamster really glad I didn’t. There is another cage I almost got called the prevue pet hamster playhouse, definitely too small for Syrian not sure for drawf. I think you should review
This is horrible. I went shopping today for my hammy and when checking out, this lady and her child was checking out and had brought:
A hamster ball.
This cage.
Paper bedding.
The smallest wheel.
And they had there hamster in a cardboard box.
HamsterHut they probably just bought the hamster which is why it was in a cardboard box, that’s what most pet stores give you to bring them home in
OMG NOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!
I just bought my little gal a 260qt bin (w almost 800 sq in of floor space INSIDE wall to wall the outside wall to wall is like 1000 or something but i always go by inside since that’s the floor space she’s using) and i’m sO EXCITEDDD me and my boyfriend have it halfway done i just have to add the mesh on top for air.
What bin is it?
“65. Gal Holiday Tree Storage Tote In Clear Base and Red Cover” at Home Depot. It’s not gonna be in the normal bin area it’s either gonna be with all the christmas decorations and such or on a pallet in the storage and they have to bring it down, i had to wait about 20 min for them to get one for me because they had to use the forklift (:
Meredith Choate www.homedepot.com/p/Organize-it-65-Gal-Holiday-Tree-Storage-Tote-in-Clear-Base-and-Red-Cover-ST53221501/206346063
@@genuineasmrr wow thank you. I've been looking to upgrade from the 40 gallon breeder and 50 gallon sterelite I currently use and the website doesnt list dimensions so i figured it would be too short. Thank you
Meredith Choate if you want the dimensions of the bin i can give them to you once i get home from work in about 4 hours
To be honest I’m 10 years old and I know that cages like this are to small I used to have my hamster in a small critter trail cage but I persuaded my mom to get me the critter trail super habitat and she pitched in and it arrived 2 days ago and my hamster is so happy she runs around instead of sleeping and does a lot of exercise and plays and she doesn’t bite anymore and is not stressed so I still don’t get why company’s still make small cages like this even after people prove that small cages are bad for hamsters and they even know the bare minimum but still make cages less than the bare minimum
The Midwest guinea pig cage is amazing! I can’t believe they made something like this, it’s sad because my piggies love the Midwest cage
I recommend if you only have one of the midwest cages to connect it with another, one of those cages is tiny by itself
Watching that Syrian hamster struggle in the cage was so heart breaking
I had the Midwest ferret nation cage for my ferret and it was amazing. I can't believe the same company would make such a crappy product for hamsters...
I find it funny when people are like: "oh my hamster/rabbit/guinea pig/other is so big I did not know they for this big..."
love you, girl!!!
ive learned SOOO much about hamsters/tiny furry animals thanks to you... ive actually given ppl advice about their hamsters and ive never even owned one lol! ima stick with cats... the tinier the animal the more work/responsibility they need! ty 💜💜💜
dumb question perhaps but do you have a video about the diffrent types of hamsters? I try to keep up but not beeing that good at it I would like some pointers on how to tell them apart.
Victoria Rachel and ErinsAnimals both have videos on this topic, just search "hamsters species" on youtube :)
The people who disliked are the ones who own this cage!
This cage has been on the market for a very long time. I had a cage just like it for my syrian back in 2008. We upgraded her to a larger one eventually but even that one wasn't great. I feel so bad now that I look back on it. The hamsters I had afterwards were dwarves and had larger cages, but they still weren't as big as they should have been. I'm planning on adopting a hamster soon after about 5-6 years of not having one and I've bought a 660 square inch terrarium for them along with a 12 inch wheel. Videos like this have been really informative, there was so much I didn't know back then, thank you.
When I was cage shopping on Amazon I saw this cage so many times and I even considered getting it until I saw the size 😬 then I watched this video so basically I dodged a bullet
( I ended up getting the Prevue 528)
I feel so bad for my hamster I had when I was younger. We got him from a breeder friend who didn’t know the appropriate environment either and I now understand why he was biting the bars all the time. I’m so sorry Alfred. Rip 😭😰
Same
I was trying to find a good cage for my mice, so I searched the internet for the 10 best cages of 2020 and most of the options had wire flooring. Ironic. The number one, i'm not joking, was a mouse trap cage. Awful. I got the Prevue giant cage. It's the best! Be well informed when it comes to your pets! Edit: I read the sad comment, absolutely mortifying. I can't believe this cage is still recommended on amazon.
I can’t get over how expensive America is! In the uk the Alaska is £30 it’s by no means perfect but it’s adequate and better than this shit 😂😂 I love your reviews so much!
AmousecalledStanley you do also have to think that £1 is the equivalent of $1.32
Just recently got a dwarf hamster from a friend who no longer could keep it and I felt so bad for the little critter cause he was in a cage the size of my head, I got a 20 gallon long as it was the only thing I could afford at the moment and gave him a huge upgrade and he is much happier. He's a sweet little Winter white, Campbell hybrid.
Lmao people in the comments with this cage trying to defend themselves :p There aren't any yet but just you wait
I’m not defending my actions because I now know this is a bad cage but back then I thought it was okay. I was educated purely by the pet store. I was 12 and I didn’t have access to the internet.
@@HeyItzRosie You've fallen into the trap lol. As long as you don't use it now that you know better you're fine. I'm talking about people who use it now and know it's not okay.
@@HeyItzRosie Hey, when I was little I had a betta fish living in an unheated, unfiltered enclosure no bigger than a mayonnaise jar. The important thing is that I don't continue to do it now that I'm older and know that it's basically animal torture.
@@Pipkiablo I can very vividly remember, I think me and my family had a fish tank with fish back when I was very small, with a filter and everything. We recently got three fishes and, their live span was only 2 years or something but the oldest one lived for much longer. I loved them very much, but the tank wasn't a tank, more like a fish bowl, and the fish were quite small. It wasn't filted or anything. We always changed the water, so it stayed clean and with all the correct fish chemical things we put in it. It wasn't heated because it was a cold water fish, warm water fishes are more expensive and usually more exotic looking and harder to take care of.
I don’t even own a hamster but like I’m addicted to these videos
When I wanted a hamster i asked my mom for a 40 gallon tank for my birthday. She went to the pet store to buy one but bought a critter trail cage because she said a pets mart employee told her the tank was bad and wouldn’t have a enough ventilation. I even told her to not listen to petstore employee because they don’t know what there taking about
That's true! Many pet store employees don't know enough about animals. It's best just to do your own research!
I loved the $20 cage that Benfranklin stores use to sell. You could add attachments to it. That’s big enough. No matter how big the cage is they are not happy. I transformed a 6’x6’x1’ entertainment center and one in it was still not happy!
Me after watching video: *gets idea*
My idea: buy all the hamster cages at Petco and return them all the next day and inform the empoyees to get rightful safe cages for hamsters unless they would like to talk to animal control
I love that all the CZcamsrs I have watched over the last couple days are telling people to about the small cages. I had hamsters when I was a kid and now we are thinking of getting one for my son. We are just doing research on cages and such but I think we are going to end up just building a DIY one.
They just dont even care about hamsters they just care about looks wow so mean you have helped alot of people thank you
first video I'm watching of yours, but GAHH YOUR PERSONALITY IS SO CUTE AND FUN!!
How amazing would it be if cages like this stopped being made
When I got my first hamster, the employee that sold me the hamster actually said that he would grow to be a big hamster, before I was told that, I already knew that he was gonna be a big hamster. It's just so unfortunate that these type of cages are still sold.
OOPSIESSSSS i kinda just put this together like 2 hours ago and it seemed huge... thx amazon prime!
Her hair though 😍
I LOVE my Prevue 528 cage and so does my dwarf furbaby Chunky! I do have the shelf in the cage at the moment but I am planning on taking it out when I clean the cage, cause I have noticed Chunky does not seem to like it. So the plan is to get smaller platforms and other things for her to climb on if she chooses! Plus I am also waiting on a really sweet huge sand bath that comes with a built in hide that I think she will love....especially since now she LOVES to dig in the sand and throw it all over the bedding around it!
My dwarf didn't like using the ramp so I lowered the shelf a bit and then propped one of his tubes against it and I've noticed that he prefers going up and down that way.
If the ramp is the issue I recommend tearing up a cardboard box and taping the ridged side up. I've been using that for 4 months for my Campbell's and it works like a charm!
@@jaded161 I didnt even think of that! I had hubby grab me some good sized rocks from the yard. I washed them really good then placed them on the ramp thinking that it would also help with keeping claws nicely trimmed. But that is not the issue...she will freeze in place for a few moments once she gets to the top as if she is making sure all is clear. I dont like seeing her frozen like that so I would rather remove it.
I have the other cage the "good" one. and I love it.
My Syrian hamster likes it when I put a terracotta pot vertically in the cage, he digs underneath it and gets it into the bedding then sleeps in it, it looks cramped, but if he’s happy, I’m happy.
Garbage cage aside, Waffles is a gorgeous hamster. Very pretty. 😊
You giving me Ariel vibes 💕
💖Waffles is an adorable lil cutie💖
This is so disappointing because Midwest makes amazing rat cages. I personally own a Midwest double critter nation that's 5 feet tall, 3 feet wide, 2 feet long and absolutely amazing. They can make lovely cages, they just really dropped the ball here.
I've been waiting for you to review this cage for so long
Oh my gosh, 2 years ago when i was seriously thinking about getting a hamster (i got rats instead) i actually considered this as a cage! Amazon really pushed it, and i was starting to fall for it!
Just wanted to toss out there, I got my first hamster a few months back and it's thanks to your videos I was able to find the best stuff for my little one, probably the most relaxed hamster I've had my entire life. (had one when I was younger that my parents took care of, its home was roughly the size of a shoe box, my parents think this fancy huge cage (the Prevue 528 Cage) is 'over doing it') Thanks for making these detailed and educating videos!