Lilly

[Maz]

No, as long as you have access to a drill you can sort it. There's no diy skill needed to drill a hole.

Aside from that i quite like the cage for a dwarf hamster. It's a good size, too low for my liking but i find the Plaza too high for a dwarf and there's nothing inbetween.

That is the problem isn't it - there's nothing in between!

Really glad Lilly is doing fine with her recovery. She'll be bouncing around in no time. I think that was the right decision re the biopsy - it might tell you if it's one thing or another, but nothing is then ever certain.

 

[RainbowBrite]

That is a very positive vet appointment. Im so pleased to hear this.

 

[Frida]

Great news about Lilly

 

[Member ID2]

I made a start on Lilly's new cage but she does things a bit differently. She doesn't like a big house on the floor and chose to sleep in a little hut in her loft on a thin layer of aspen.
I've put in a shelf with the little house Gordon and Scottie liked.

She liked her tube roof run that led onto the back shelf. Now i'm trying to figure out a roof run from big shelf on the right onto this shelf with the house in a top opening cage!

 

[RainbowBrite]

That cute house seems to have always been popular with your hamsters.

 

[Member ID2]

I know, it's a few years old and still going strong.

 

[Frida]

I love the little house

 

[Maz]

The little house looks very cute Maybe the roof run could be a side run - round the top of the inside of the bars? So it doesn't block the roof. Although you can probably work round it if it does go across part of the top.

 

[Member ID2]

I think a top side run at the front would be worth a try. Have just installed a porridge tube. I find it really difficult to set up a new hamster home trying to stick to the set up they're used to as much as possible.

Got so annoyed with the ebay seller for getting my order wrong (how hard can it be to read an order?!) that i asked for a refund and don't want their plastikote now.
I got the harbour blue locally and really like it.

 

[Maz]

I really liked Harbour blue as well - although it looks much darker on your photo then when I used it.

 

[Member ID2]

It's a medium blue.
The whole top of this cage (frame and bars) lifts off and clips into place which is useful when setting it up.

 

[Member ID2]

It's a very simple design i quite like as the individual panels slot in and out and click into place. Should i ever decide to add a front door i could take the front panel out but the rest of the cage wouldn't collapse.

 

[Maz]

I wonder if they have changed it then. I also thought it was a medium blue but was a blue/green colour and a bit lighter when I used it.

 

[Maz]

It's a very simple design i quite like as the individual panels slot in and out and click into place. Should i ever decide to add a front door i could take the front panel out but the rest of the cage wouldn't collapse.

That sounds good. Glad you like it

 

[Frida]

That's a nice shade of blue

 

[Member ID2]

I need to take the shelf out and drill two new holes. I don't like the position of the ramp.

 

[Member ID2]

I want it here to free up more space in the middle not that it matters with a cage without front opening.

I don't know what i could use that narrow space between ramp and side for.

It's a job for another day as i have to pack up now and feed the hamsters.

If anybody would like to volunteer an opinion would be appreciated before i get the drill out.

Was also considering shortening the ramp but a hamster may like the run.

 

[Maz]

So you mean the first photo is the standard position of the ramp, and you want to lose the gap at the side and have it like the second photo? Looks good to me. The shelf is a really nice colour. Nothing like the blue I had so maybe mine wasn't harbour blue!

 

[Daisy]

I like it at the side too. It just looks more orderly to my logical mind!

 

[Maz]

Mine looked more like the colour on this photo - but not as bright. It looks more like "Night blue"? Anyway whatever it is it looks very nice!

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