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[MapleKitty]

(I am not sure if this is the correct place to put this, however I felt it fit here better than any other area)

 

Hello everyone, I am writing a persuasive/argumentative essay on "whatever I ahve strong opinions on" (said by my instructor), and she is extremely nice and will let us do anything. I have decided to do mine of something surrounding "Why Hamsters need a large enclosure in order to provide proper enrichment and mental happiness"

 

I am having trouble finding reputable resources, as a forum is not very reputable. If ANYONE can find ANYTHING regarding hamster care on a website that seems reputable or is known to be reputable, it would be EXTREMELY helpful. I look forward to writing this essay as I am very excited and have strong opinions on this. 

 

As long as the website/article includes ANYTHING about hamster care, hamster cage, space, enrichment, it would be helpful for me. 

 

I am doing my own research of course, but it would be helpful to get any reputable resources I may not be able to find or know of. I have heard that some german websites are very reputable but I am having a hard time finding these. Again, anything will help, and if you do not find anything, or don't really care to look it is perfectly fine I get it. 

[Kikya]

Well, one source is the bedding depth study. The short version is that it shows that a hamster needs quite a deep cage for an appropriate amount of bedding. You can't get those in your average critterjail, excuse me, I mean crittertrail.

 

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S016815910500393X

 

Also, you can point out that hamsters in the wild have huge borrow systems and the stress behaviors that hamsters exhibit when in in a too small cage.

 

There is another study about cage size and enrichment as well

 

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10780840/

 

I hope these help, there may be more but these are the two I know of off the top of my head.

[lil BIG dwarf]

http://lan.sagepub.com/content/33/3/221.full.pdf

https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Behaviour-of-golden-hamsters-%28-Mesocricetus-auratus-Fischer-Gebhardt-Henrich/3891ee836d1c5fd8479e67ae51c6069167f0f78e?p2d


Here are two!

[MapleKitty]

Well, one source is the bedding depth study. The short version is that it shows that a hamster needs quite a deep cage for an appropriate amount of bedding. You can't get those in your average critterjail, excuse me, I mean crittertrail.

 

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S016815910500393X

 

Also, you can point out that hamsters in the wild have huge borrow systems and the stress behaviors that hamsters exhibit when in in a too small cage.

 

There is another study about cage size and enrichment as well

 

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10780840/

 

I hope these help, there may be more but these are the two I know of off the top of my head.

Thank You!  These are very helpful.