How to make a cage for a hamster with own hands

How to make a cage for a hamster with own hands

You got a little hamster, but do not know where to support him. Earlier with many owners the hamsters lived in cages for parrots or in one-liter jars. As the cage especially for a hamster was not possible to be found. Now it is possible to buy in any pet-shop, but it is possible and to make most.

Instruction

1. For a start decide where you want to put a cage. It cannot be put in those places where smoke also on a draft. It is necessary to avoid direct sunshine and humidity. Also placement on a floor, a windowsill, near the conditioner is not recommended. Hamsters and so in average live depending on conditions contents and feeding of 1.5 - 3.5. So that your little friend lived as long as possible, follow recommendations.

2. The best option will be cage to make of a tree. For this purpose you will need multilayered plywood and wooden dosochka about 12 — 15 mm thick. The size should not be less than 40х50 cm, the minimum height of 50 cm - the is more spacious, the it will be more convenient to a hamster. A floor for a cage has to be plastic. It is possible to make so that it moved forward. So it will be more convenient to you to remove it. Rods have to be metal and not thin, and the distance between them should not exceed 5-10 mm that the hamster could not gnaw through or get through them between them. The door needs to be put so that it was convenient to you to put food, to remove a cage inside and just to push hands in a cage. Pay attention that your pet could not open it independently. But on springs it is better not to put as the hamster can accidentally pinch something. And you can make top open or put plexiglas.

3. If you have time and desire, then it is possible to make floors in a cage. The distance between floors has to be not less than 30 cm. It is very important that floors in a cage were made in the form of plastic shelves, but not an iron lattice. Do not forget that except all this in a lodge it will be necessary to establish a wheel, a drinking bowl, a feeding trough and other stock at your discretion.

Author: «MirrorInfo» Dream Team


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