Hamster toy recommendations?

baby and crumble

Hey guys,

I have a 7 month old syrian hamster that we got about 6 weeks ago. She's fully grown and loves to come out and run around and play, she's really well socialised and very smart. We have a 3 part cage for her with tubes she loves going through and a decent wheel. We have been trying to make sure she stays happy and stimulated with stuff to chew, toilet rolls, a wooden ramp, a hanging wooden burrow thing (hard to describe) and some plain wooden balls that she loves chasing.

I just want to see about getting a selection of toys that we can swap in and out of her cage, and also that she can play with when she's out at night, and nowhere I've seen has much good stuff- does anyone have any recommendations of pet shops around the Dublin area that have good selections of hamster toys? Or any good home made stuff we could try?

Zapperzy

When I was up in derry I went to pets at home, they've a brilliant selection of toys. If your ever near one have a look there.

I used to take mine out and into the bath with loads of toys, toilet rolls, shoeboxes, all sorts of cardboard boxes, a lunchbox with chinchilla sand (with some food buried in it) and a washed out coffee jar. I tried making a little tunnel den once by connecting some toilet roll tubes together inside a cardboard box or shoebox but he wasn't too impressed with it.

Cherry Blossom

Amazon has everything OP Look on Zooplus as well, under Small Pets -> cage accessories.

Stheno

You can get balls about the size of a football that the hamster goes into and then they wheel themselves all around a room, when I'd a hamster he loved it, helped that he could be in a room with cats and bomb them in his cat proof ball (under supervision)

The cats learned to run, I swear the evil little bugger accelerated when he saw them.

Mine loved loo rolls, the hemp/wooden toys, having his tunnels moved when he was cleaned out, and anything he could chew on.

Vojera

Mine loves sheets of kitchen roll. I put in one sheet every few days and she goes ninety shredding it and adding it to her nest. It seems to keep her occupied

Sigma Force

Check out Maxi Zoo they have some really cute hamster houses at the moment, although make sure any holes and openings are wide enough so the hammie doesn't get stuck (had a gerbil stuck in a window of one once but he was fine he got himself out of it in a few minutes).

Zooplus.ie have a few bits.

Habitrail tunnels are handy as well I loved the old habitrail stuff despite some people not being fond of them because they need re-enforcing.

Plain white kitchen roll is brilliant. When I had hams I'd clean them out once a week but every day I'd put in a new sheet or two of kitchen roll . The usual stuff like cardboard biscuit boxes and tea boxes etc. of all shapes and sizes.

Mine also loved the occasional wee piece of strawberry or ham. But especially loved apple branches (from trees that weren't treated with chemicals). If you don't have an apple tree you can buy them in pots or raid a family/friends garden.