- If you usually keep your house below 65Fperhaps during the day when no one's home or at night for sleepingconsider placing a space heater in the room where you keep your hamster's habitat.2 This may help maintain your hamster's environment ...
Inside, its a bit of a balancing act. You want to keep your hamster at a constant temperature. Avoid putting them in direct sunlight or near draughts and radiators. In very cold weather, give your hamster more bedding or move their housing somewhere warmer to keep them nice and cosy.
- If the hamster's room stays 60 degrees, that's a pad with a max boost of 15 degrees. Or plug a pad into a thermostat and set the temperature at of around 70 degrees Fahrenheit. Pet stores sell a variety of thermostats that attach to the cage.
- They're dangerous already for reptiles (very well known to cause burns) and even moreso for hamsters with the risk of chewing. Instead, get a seedling heat mat and thermostat off Amazon and place it half underneath the enclosure (not inside).
- Most commercial cages come with tiny little plastic houses with a solid base. These are not good. Yes a hamster will fit in it, but hamsters need to build large nests - partly to keep warm in cold weather, and partly because it's what makes them feel secure. If they only have a little plastic house they will try to nest and hoard in it and it will get messed up and need cleaning out too much (which will stress the hamster).
Moving forward, it's essential to keep these visual contexts in mind when discussing Thermosafe Hamster Houses.
- Watch for overheating. Hamsters are very sensitive to the heat and can overheat easily.Keep an eye out for these symptoms of heatstroke: ... Move his cage to cooler part of the house. Walk through your home and try and find where it is the coolest.
