It's not just their bedroom, you're creating their entire world

Putting a hamster in a cage that small is like a person living in a broom closet

Clearly Victoria proved that small cages shouldn’t even been created in the first place!!!💗🐹

Great message! I hope this will change some peoples mind about hamster care.

I had a hamster as a kid, before the internet was mainstream and he lived in a cage like this. I feel so guilty for not doing better. I’m really grateful you’re educating people, hopefully people stop these practices

Same with birds. I have two parakeets and they have a massive cage. They need big cages to be able to fly around when they are not out to get exercise. My birds are constantly chasing each other around my cage and having fun bc THEY HAVE ROOM! A tiny bird cage cannot sustain the lifestyle a bird needs. And before I chose birds as my pet. I was gonna get a hamster and I did a bunch of research on them so I know what they need too. I love your cage design. I'm sure your hamster loves it! ❤️ Thank you for being a good pet owner 😁

I don’t have a hamster yet, but im saving up and I can’t wait to get one! These videos have helped me know what to do, and convinced me that im not ready to get one yet. Thank you so much!!! Edit: I didn’t realize I have so many likes, lol

So happy people are finally starting to value the life of small pets. They are creatures with ONE habitat so it should be wonderful!! My Pac-Man frog does nothing but sit in one spot in the dirt all year round, but she has a 40 gallon tank that I designed to look like rock waterfalls with bio active substrate and live plants. She’s so happy!! Little creatures deserve just as much love and respect as cats and dogs.

You have inspired me so much! My hamster Sushi just passed away and I’m planning on getting one or two other hamster next month. Because of you I can feel at peace knowing Sushi lived an amazing life!

Thank you so much for this video Victoria! Every one should know what a proper hamster cage size is!

I upgraded my hamster to a 600 square inch cage and still want a larger one... when he was in the smaller one I knew it was too small for him but couldn't afford a larger one, I saved up my money and finally bought him a larger cage, more substrates, sprays, and lots of hideouts for enrichment. That you Victoria, you saved us ❤❤

A friend of mine had a whole room for ONE small chubby angy hamster called Totoro, that hanster lived so long i swear, and it was so much fun giving him a treat and watching him go wild in his mansion, be a good pet owner! They will thank u.

Companies that make these and ignore people like you who say it’s not okay sicken me.

Finally someone's talking about these horrible cages

Absolutely agree animals even hamsters deserve all the enrichment and good life. People dont have a clue what they need if their buying this

I have a hamster, she lives in a small cage though. My mom doesn't want me to waste money and right now she doesn't have a lot of bedding. When I get older,, I hope i can get a hamster to properly take care of. But right now, I love my little Pumpkin and she loves her cage! 🥰

I SO glad you made your first short!❤

Love this so much. I love how you are encouraging the correct hamster care. Thank you so much. My hamster, Grizzly, passed away after a long 2 years of living. Fortunately, I watched your videos and got a 60 gallon tank with 9 inches of bedding and so much enrichment. Thank you so much for helping my hamster have the best life possible ❤

I love these videos so much and some pet stores really don’t care about the products they sell, it’s only for the money they make from those bad products 😢

I'm so glad I finally found someone that's spreading awareness about small rodents needing more space, bunnies, hamsters, guinea pigs, mice, rats and other small rodents need more space than what the pet stores give you, don't listen to pet stores they'll tell you stuff so that they can make more money. And do your research before getting a pet people.

My dawaf hamster lives in a much bigger cage than we were told he needed and I love that he's able to run around and burrow all he wants

My sister bought an IKEA glass bookshelf, uses the shelves as roof panels instead, has various bedding types and a sandy area and branches and everything. That things like 6ft X 30cm. She still wants to make a square one by hand so PomPom can have deeper bedding. lmao mum's a little miffed

I love your videos ❤ you’ve helped me so much with my hamster care 😊

Thank you for making this!!! All hamster owners need to know this!!!

I love ur videos. I never thought u would do shorts, but I’m not complaining!! Thank you so much for helping me out massively with my hamster care ❤

Omg!!!!!! Keep making these shorts this one is absolutely amazing and educational!!! I love it soooooo much

Thank you for talking about this. It`s an important topic that many owners ignore!

So true! We need to expect all animals, big and small, to need a very spacious area with lots of enrichment and more!❤️

Thank you so much for being amazing you’ve helped both my hamsters and my rabbits get into much better and more suitable set ups!❤

I have a winter white dwarf called Maze and a Chinese hamster called Lucifer, they each have a 775sq cage with around 8-10 inches of bedding and 10 inch wheels, lots of hides and toys, natural materials, different substrates, forage, like 5 different food mixes mixed together so they get proper nutrition, and lots and lots of more things. I would’ve loved to give them more space but as I can’t at the moment I make sure they have all the enrichment I could possibly fit in their cages and that they get new things often. They don’t show any boredom or stress behaviors, and they were both rescue hamsters that I drove a couple of hours to get :) I’m so happy I can give them proper lives.

I feel like monster to my hamsters 😢 It is truly a huge responsibility to care for their whole life, no matter how short or long.

I like to call it an habitat and not a cage. And cage is a place you don’t want to be while a habitat has everything you need to survive comfortably and is a place you do want to be

bro i wish people would put even that much bedding in their enclosures 💀 the standard is a ✨sprinkle✨ of wood chips in there so the hamster can kick the single pieces around on the hard plastic floor… also let‘s keep a minimum of two in there so they have ComPAnY 🤪

In my country, the small cages arent even allowed for the hamsters.

I really want a better cage for my next hamster, but convincing my parents is hard. :(

thank you for these videos. I hope they've changed some hamster lives. When I first got my hamster in 2020 (she's since passed, sadly), I hadn't done the proper research and she had a small cage and tubes that were too tight for her once she wad fully grown. After she had chewed on the bars a lot and escaped a few times, I buckled down and did a lot more research. We got her a 400sq inch cave with two floors, tubes, and multiple stimulating toys, a wheel etc. she was so much happier. no more chewing or trying to escape. If the pet store hadn't misinformed us by encouraging small cages and tubes it never would have begun that way. I hope that they are banned at some point.

I’m so happy you’re now doing shorts! Totally here for it! I absolutely love your channel! ❤️

Yeah, this happens so often with betta fish too unfortunately, smallest I've seen is an alcohol bottle.

Yes they need a lot of space they deserve it they are very special animals I love them so much thank you Victoria for everything we appreciate it ❤😊☺💝

That hamster cage at the end looks better than my entire house.. it’s perfect 🤩

❤ VICTORIA FOR LIFE ❤

A human is small compared to a elephant so it can fit into a closet. It can have food and water, you can even give it a phone for entertainment. But no, it can’t leave, it has all of the things it needs so it’s fine!

I feel so bad for my hamster, they were considered cheap pets so my family got them without looking into it but now my hamster is to old to move into a bigger cage he can barely use his stairs

thanks for educating ppl! i never had the chance to actually have any hamsters but i still tell everyone who wants to get one about the proper enclosures and wheels and everything i learned from you.

Wait do people actually still use these for hamsters?

The small cage is perfect for traveling and that’s it.

my parents bought me a hamster before i knew this, and i'm working to convince them to upgrade her cage. i guess i'll see.

I could say the same about those tiny glass hermit crab cages. Just because a creature is smaller than you doesn’t mean they need something super small to live in

Never let them know your next move- puts less items inside the cage

Though I dont think I'll ever own another hamster again. I'm glad I came across Victoria's channel when I did own ❤

I have a dwarf hamster and she is named fluffy and she has a bigger cage than that with a tunnel and she loves it and she is so cute

Yes! I support this 😢 not only was it a bad first time(changed later) home for my hamsters, wasted lots of money on those expensive small pet shop ones

Totally agree thank you for sharing this and sticking up for the ones who cant for themselves!!

That cage is what I call a sick cage or a end of life cage when they don't move much and need to be monitored hourly.

What a beautiful hamster enclosure you have ❤

i hate people who dont inform themselves what their pet needs before getting one🤦‍♀️

Thank you!! Hamsters have huge territories in the wild, they really are so unhappy in tiny overfilled cages. Pet stores often try to sell tiny cages for most animals - always do your own extensive research.

Remember smaller cages/ carrier/terraniums etc for temporary use for emergencies or transport them to the vet. Never go bare minimum for animals always go for largest home you can create for them.

If i had a hamster i would have a big Cage and a smaller Cage when we travel for a Short time

They like to DIG. My brother had hamsters that would burrow 6 inches down and snooze. Sometimes we'd see their lil face pressed against the clear walls.

Personally I would only use that sized cage for transport. Like if your selling the hamster or taking it to the vet don't use these for actual housing

A few days ago our Hamster (Cookie) passed, I wasn't well educated until a few month ago but we just couldn't get the room for a large cage, so sadly he had to have something similar to this cage in size. He's last Hamster I'll properly ever own until I can get the proper room for one. Thanks for the education!

God bless you!!

My hamster Goldie has a okay cage. It’s is super small but nope as small as that one. We are working for a better one tho. Giving her as much as we can. Goldie I love you!!!

When I first saw that tiny cage I thought it was yet another kid who doesn't know how to properly take care of their hammy. Then I saw your profile and was relieved.

Friendly reminder that just because an animal is small it doesn't mean that the animal is easy to take care of. Children are small but they aren't easy to care for! I'm glad that more people are educating others on the proper care for animals like hamsters that often get sold to families thinking its an easy pet to keep!

Thank you for putting this into perspective ❤❤

The first cage stressed me out so much 😭😭

Even tho hamsters are small they need a huge cage with at least 6 inches of bedding to be able to burrow

I had a big cage that my dad made for my hamster but sadly it passed away like 1 week or smth before her 2 yrs birthday

I just got a hamster yesterday and at petsmart they told us none of their enclosures were actually good for hamsters and they recommended we bought a big tote and honestly the best decision ever, we could fit a lot more hiding spots and a bigger wheel, plus with all that extra bedding he has made another room out of tunnels in less than a day

My boyfriend said his ex kept getting hamsters and wouldn’t feed them. He was working constantly and going to college while she was at home. He said the average life span for them was 3-4 months. My jaw dropped and I felt sick. I told him that she killed babies for a long time. Was really sad to hear…

I love ur videos Victoria they r so entertaining and enriching!!! We can all learn a lot from u and ur experience!!!❤

As a child my hamster lived in a repurposed large fish tank 😊 she lived for two years of me having her but she was fully grown when I got her

I hate these cages so much. What i hate even more is children abusing their hamsters cuz they don't know how to properly take care of them, and end up treating them like that one to your annoying cousin found. These cages are barley livable, and im so glad your teaching people the right way to take care of them. In my opinion though, ones bigger than this woukd be good to use as temporary areas when sick or smth and they can't be in their usuall invirement, yet still make sure to make the space comfy

I had one of these cages... It was his travel cage, bc I wouldn't leave him behind when we travelled. His normal cage was a four story one with toys, tubes, a house and a dust tube. R.i.p Dante, you were a little champ

Hi Victoria I so appreciate that you made this video you are so right about this

I always used a large glass rectangular fish tank with a ventilated lid and it worked perfect!

It's like making your hamster live in his tiny apartment which has one room for the bed, kitchen and toilet all at once. A cage isn't just their home, it's their world.

Your first short! I am so exited to watch all the other amazing shorts you post❤

I have a hamster and she has a small cage but with attachment tunnels and we let her run around at night outside (and yes on the open grass) everyday so she’s enjoying her life.

Think of these cages as houses. That is a very small house of anyone that size. Also those small cages are for transporting them to and from the vets or holding them while you clean stuff out. I prefer something bigger when cleaning but still.

I frowned so hard. stupid tiny cages.

You have made all my hams lives better. You are an awesome lass, much love.

The little one makes a good travel cage, like a hotel room. Definitely not a house though

Bin Cages are honestly so cheap, spacious, and easy to make and furnish for your hamster, I wish more people would opt for those instead of these tiny excuses for a living environment 🤦‍♀️

Ty you have made my hamster so much better she loves her new home so much Ty you for making her life better

Love IT how she didnt even Had small Things For the Cage BC she ONLY buys big Things Houses,toilets,wheels😂😂❤❤❤❤❤(Love how she makes the hamsters dream Life come true)

im so glad im seeing this! im15 and working so ill definitly save up to get more stuff for my hamster!

I got a hamster and I was go gonna get a “250” cage but my friend stopped me, and now I have one that look’s like yours:D So my hamster is a very happy hamster (although it’s still getting used to it’s ginormous home:))

I went to my friends house to find they had a squirrel but it was in a tiny cage and that made me cry when It went up to my hand when I got the squirrel out 😢❤ (i was allowed to hold the squirrel and no harm was done)

i rlly want to use a bigger cage but my parents insisted

I'm just staring at the amount of bedding in that cause my mouse likes a very minimal amount of bedding so he pushes it out of his cage and my hamster loves putting all her bedding in the corner to sleep in

Yesss! People! Why don’t you understand?! (Also, loving the vibes of your first short, Victoria!)

THIS^^ just got two gerbils, and with that comes a 40 gallon tank with deep bedding!! so far they dont have that much enrichment since toys are still coming in from amazon, but i think it's much better than the 3 gallon tank they lived in at their time in (yes, i know it's bad) petsmart, with hardly any bedding usually i wouldnt buy an animal from petsmart, but when we went to buy kitty litter and i looked at the animals, one of the gerbils kind of ran up to the glass and looked at me in a way where i instantly fell in love. it was kind of like HE chose ME

You are amazing

people use these small cages and then wonder why their hamster dies after a month💀

Agreed but not everyone has the room for a single large enclosure. Alternatively we have setup multiple enclosures connected by tubes to provide run space and varied environments. Total space approximates the size of your large version.

I am no hamster owner but this seems like a place a happy hamster would live at

I love your videos your my fav KZfaqr bc of you I learned a lot of things for hamsters!im planning on getting one when I’m older because rn I don’t have space for the big tank!You really inspired me of where your hamsters live so I’m planning on building one myself too!❤️