Hi Maz, I don't really know about the door, all the cages I'd seen at pets at home were like this, I supposed it makes it harder for the animal to climb out since you push it back, whereas if it opened upwards I think the animal could use it as a ramp to escape, I might be too far off here, I don't know.It looks very nice and she has a lot to do in there and nice hides and tunnels. It could do with more bedding for digging and burrowing. So a few things I would suggest adjusting as hamsters really are diggers and burrowers and not very good at climbing and can fall off things and hurt themselves.
If you can have one end with deeper bedding at least, I'm sure she'd be more settled so she can dig and burrow. To achieve that you'd need to add cardboard, perspex or grass mats inside the bars at one end
Ideally, if it's deeper in the entire cage, there's less height with falling so not so many climbing things needed like the steps. The steps are very cute but hamsters do tend to fall off things, so if they have lots of deep substrate to land on and less far to fall it helps
For now if you just fill the base to the top with bedding it might help - even if it means raising some of the shelves higher up. Bits of bedding will fall out but it's not that bad. You could try with cardboard round the inside but she might chew it off. The cheapest option for the perspex panels are these - so you can just have one deeper end of bedding. £31 for the deep bedding panels at one end. You get to side pieces and an end piece 19cm tall. If you look at the second photo on the link it shows where they go
Personally I would think about doing that at the right hand end of the cage and keeping the shelf at the left hand end of the cage.
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Actually I've noticed a few people having the door opening upwards like you have
With having the door drop down from the top they have to climb down the bars! When I've had the cage on the floor I've had to put a ramp or cushion over the barred door so they can get in and out It's really good to have the option to have it opening either way though - depending on what people prefer as well (Eg height of the cage).It makes total sense what you said. Because she's a runaway queen I'd rather keep the cage as it is even though she can push the door open if it's unlocked. She's doing fine, she's biting the bars much less now that she has so many things to keep her busy, she was nesting today, keeping herself occupiedIt's something I hadn't thought about but thinking about it, it means they could climb out easier if you wanted to let them out which is a good thing
How is she doing? Is she still cross? Or settled down a bit now.
and I can't sleep, again. Not much I can do at 4am, but please pray for my sanity.
My recently passed Syrian Raffy wasn't a bar biter - unless it was 11pm at night and he saw me in the room and he would rush over to one corner and bite the bars to get my attention if I didn't let him out immediately!
She looks happy in her ceramic hide. It does look like she has nose marks from the bar biting so really hope it settles down now. She is bound to have really frantic moments every four days when she's on heat. It's sometimes trial and error to get things how they feel comfortable with. I think Hank kept a behaviour diary with Jas in the early days - it might help predict what she does when and whether her on heat days are related. So you can prepare for or work a routine out that helps.That's an excellent idea, I wish they had an app for itWhat an adorable face
but I'm gonna try and keep track making notes, two days ago she was driving us insane and now we are all taking a breather 
. Thank you every, we are learning so much from all of you!
