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HamsterWelfare.com shares hamster news, stories and advice for keepers of hamsters.
Hamster care and welfare news for small-pet owners.
The cage page gives the site's minimum enclosure size and the reasoning behind it. It cites how far hamsters run in the wild and the recommendations of the Veterinary Association for Animal Welfare (TVT), and it sits beside blog posts that check retailers and charities against that size.
Visit linkThe About Us page sets out the site's position: hamsters are protected under the Animal Welfare Act, yet the pet industry ignores welfare evidence and advice while presenting itself as responsible. The page frames the site as a record of the products and practices that put hamsters at risk.
Visit linkA blog post on a petition to ban the sale of cages too small for animals. It links back to the site's earlier coverage of the campaign's start, and it sits among the blog's other posts on cage size recommendations.
Visit linkHamsterWelfare.com builds its case from evidence and holds retailers and charities to it. The blog tracks cage-size recommendations from Woodgreen, PDSA and Blue Cross, reports a Blue Cross warning against small wheels, and covers an RVC study on housing dwarf hamsters alone after six months old. Evidence pages on cages, wheels, bedding and sand sit in the same menu as a Historical Campaign page, and the Hamster Forum has its own introductory post.
Read the noteStart with Cage Advice & Evidence for the enclosure minimum, then Safe & Unsafe Hamster Bedding and Scented Bedding Dangers for bedding. The Wheels Advice & Evidence page and the blog post on the Blue Cross warning against small wheels cover the exercise side.
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