This is my cage. An inescapable prison. Few have dared try…and…well…they actually succeeded pretty easily… :S
Do you see the second row, how it’s slightly larger than the rest? It actually measures a 1.3cm in height while the other rows measure 1.1cm…
and in that 0.2cm of extra space, my hamster Chandler escaped. In this picture, I placed a small wheel up to the cage with Chandler inside. While escape looked seemingly impossible, a few minutes of waiting and Chandler actually fits her tiny head between the 1.3cm of space….and escapes! I really have no idea how to keep her from escaping…except making her a little fatter on purpose but I feel that borderlines animal abuse. Sneaky hammy!
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Let me explain why there are 4 wheels. Originally I had 2, a big purple one and a small red one. I wanted to buy another large wheel…and when I was at the store, I wanted a different color than the original purple wheel. So I got a red wheel, not really remembering the small red wheel. When I put the 3 wheels together, it was large red, small red, large purple. My OCD kicked in and I couldn’t stand the 2 reds beside each other…so I bought a small green wheel.
OCD. It isn’t pretty. And sometimes ridiculous…or maybe that’s just me.
UPDATED – SEPT 2, 2010 (90210!)
Why don’t you put like string, or pipecleaner or something on that second row. Like thread it through so the hamsters can’t escape?
….so much work….too lazy :/
string is a good idea!