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I didn’t know about how much can change her interests with the time! The truth she might be (we don’t know exact birthday) 16 or 17 months old. We have been out of home today from 11 to 5 pm and when we came back she was awake chilling in her sand (she loves doing that, and it’s a cool place -it’s very warm still in Barcelona-) and when she saw and heard us she started asking to go out. I let her being out in the playpen and I recorded this video attached. She also pooped 3 times and she usually does it at the vet because she’s stressed. Do you think she actually likes being there? I don’t think soHi there good to hear about bobiYou know I find this with most hamsters when they get to a certain age - it's as if they have an inbuilt clock saying I need to live a bit and experience things I don't want to spend my life in a cage. It simply sounds like she wants to be out of the cage and run around and have some fun and so she tries to get your attention when she sees you. Tino's is doing the same thing and well he's about 20 months old now. He just wants to be out free roaming all night every night. And it's quite hard when you can't manage it every night, but he seems happy with his half an hour to 40 minutes out as long as it's regular so I would keep doing that - giving her time in her playpen/fence but I would try and do it at a set time each day/evening so she has a routine she can expect. She has a lovely cage set a lovely enclosure - I don't think there's anything wrong with that and I don't think it's stress behaviour - I think it's just she wants to start coming out and living life a bit. It could be a bit of stress behaviour if you've just given her a big clean out but I'm assuming that isn't the case.
Any hamster can monkey bar across the roof if they can get up there whether it's a meshed tank roof or a barred cage and theyre just looking for a way out especially at night which is a super active time of the day With a lot of pent up energy and their foraging instincts at night. I think the main thing is that she can't land on anything hard to injure herself. Having a look at your enclosure there doesn't seem to be too long a drop from the top. but landing on the bendy bridge could be hard - some people cover those with Hemp Mat for that reason I've seen that done in Germany and I've done it myself. Also I can't tell how low the platform is on the front left.
Please could you add the video as a youtube oneI didn’t know about how much can change her interests with the time! The truth she might be (we don’t know exact birthday) 16 or 17 months old. We have been out of home today from 11 to 5 pm and when we came back she was awake chilling in her sand (she loves doing that, and it’s a cool place -it’s very warm still in Barcelona-) and when she saw and heard us she started asking to go out. I let her being out in the playpen and I recorded this video attached. She also pooped 3 times and she usually does it at the vet because she’s stressed. Do you think she actually likes being there? I don’t think sobut I hope she does!
The problem if she really needs more playpen time is that she doesn’t have regular schedulesdepends A LOT on the day. There’s days she wakes up at midday (and there’s nobody at home or we don’t have time) and days she wakes up at the afternoon such as today or days she wakes up quite late at night and everyone at home is sleeping… This is going to be hard lol
there you goPlease could you add the video as a youtube oneIt's the only video site we use on the forum now and also the googledrive one seemed blocked? Thank you!
Ok that makes me feel betterThank you! So fast! It's like she's on wheelsBut it looks like normal playpen behaviour - their mission is to get past walls! Even if she had the whole room she'd be trying to get past the door to the next room! You could maybe add more in the playpen to distract her - cardboard boxes, a chew stick. Carrot cottages are popular here - ours spend ages nibbling those
Tricky if she wants to come out at different times but I suspect she is loving out of cage time and wanting more!
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