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We encourage you to go as large as possible with your hamster's cage, and approve cages on a case-by-case basis. Here are our current guidelines:

• 360 square inches accepted for dwarf hamsters (20 gallon long, bin cage, etc.)
• 600+ square inches STRONGLY recommended for all hamsters
• 1/4"-1/2" bar spacing
• All walking surfaces must be solid; no wire bottoms or shelves.

View the appropriate and approved cages on our sister site, California Hamster Association! We accept any of them found at the following link.

Wheels must be solid-surfaced. Mesh or wire wheels are not accepted.

Dwarves: 8" or larger

Syrians: 10" or larger

We recommend all the wheels listed here:

We use and recommend Mazuri pellet diets (Rat and Mouse or 6F formulas) in addition to our House Blend seed mix. We also like to give plenty of veggies and proteins! For more info, visit the Feeding and Nutrition page at California Hamster Association!

We use both aspen shavings and paper bedding at our rescue, in addition to other enrichment materials. For more bedding info, see the bedding page at California Hamster Association!

Hamsters need more than bare basics--they need lots of stimulating toys and textures to engage their brain and keep them entertained! We encourage lots of enrichment for our hamsters. Please see the Enrichment page for more ideas.