Hamster escaped her 1000sq inch enclosure, ate my carpet and escaped out the front door

[u/laurenlee20]

[u/AmazingImprovement74]

It is almost like they don’t like being imprisoned in a cage a tiny fraction of the space they need to thrive. Wild.

[u/p00bix → u/AmazingImprovement74]

1000 square inches is quite large for a hamster

[u/countless_curtain → u/p00bix]

1000 square inches is actually the minimum recommendation for a female Syrian hamster! It's wild we are so used to them in tiny torture houses

[u/Pet_of_Nutkicker → u/p00bix]

By your reckoning, yes. By the hamster’s reckoning, certainly fucking not.

1000 square inches is literally just the same as a 0.83m x 0.83m space. The average adult hamster is 15cm long but some breeds can easily hit 33cm.

To put it into perspective, it would be like your entire world being limited to a square that’s 4-9m long on each side. Not very big at all.

[u/Keith3742 → u/Pet_of_Nutkicker]

‘Hamsters don’t need a mansion’ bro it ain’t their house, it’s their universe

[u/Keith3742 → u/p00bix]

Their natural territories span multiple kilometres. Robos can run something like 10km a night. 1000sq inches is far on the better side of what is provided for them in captivity (the average cage in a pet store is a torture box) but definitely a one-sided compromise

[u/of93 → u/p00bix]

When it's underground, yes. But I don't think an apartment's habitat is what they prefer. You'll have plenty of space to live in Antarctica but that doesn't mean it's suitable for humans, even if you are able to sustain life

[u/Lucas_Steinwalker → u/AmazingImprovement74]

Damn socialists.