Hamster housing

Hamster housing is fun to customize, arrange, and maintain. When you choose easy to clean cages with secure, owner-friendly access doors, caring for your hamster is quick and easy. The perfect hamster habitat should also keep your pet safe, comfortable, and offer plenty of room for exercise and enrichment. Let’s dive into everything your hamster’s home needs for them to feel and look their best, and how to keep your tasks from becoming chores.

A hamster needs a safe, comfortable home of a good size in order to be happy

Hamster housing checklist

There are some necessities to have for your hamster, while other items are more for enrichment or playtime. Here is a list of the must-haves for your hamster:

• A secure and spacious hamster habitat
• Hamster house or hideout for sleeping
• Food bowl
• Cage-mounted water bottle
• An exercise wheel
• Bedding
• Quality hamster food and fresh water

And, for ultimate play sessions, exercise, and bonding-fun for you and your hamster, here are some supplemental accessories:

• Customizable hamster tunneling tubes
• Hamster-safe playpen
• Ramp and platform for added space in their habitat
• Sand bath
• Chamber hides

You may also want to consider hamster-safe chews or gnaws made from applewood to help your small pet keep their ever-growing incisors trimmed. Timothy hay is another good choice for keeping their teeth trimmed, with the added bonus of offering supplemental nutrients to their diet.

Sand baths help your hamster clean their scent glands, especially as they get older. Providing a sand bath station will help improve your hamster’s coat quality, as well as provide them with an enriching activity to engage in. Make sure the sand is not dyed and does not contain any calcium.

You can make your own hamster hideouts out of cardboard

How to pick the perfect hamster housing

Traditionally, hamster cages have been small setups with the option to connect varying lengths of tubing to provide more space. While this may be somewhat practical for smaller breeds of hamsters, all hamsters thrive when they’re provided with as much space as possible in their enclosure. Tubes are fun for hamsters, but they should be considered supplemental to a setup, and not a main part of the living area.

Most hamster cages are constructed with a smooth base, and wire walls and top. Wire offers ample ventilation, but traditional hamster cages have a too-shallow base to promote burrowing – which is essential to your hamster’s happiness. And, with wire being the sole material for the walls of hamster cages, these small pets can begin to climb out of curiosity or boredom, which can lead to injury.

Omlet and your hamster

Choosing our products for your hamster gives them an escape-proof habitat that’s comfortable, durable, and easy to clean. And with so many hamster accessories, we’ve made keeping a hamster more fun than ever. Discover endless possibilities with your hamster’s setup and your quality time together with our ingeniously designed hamster products.