Water-bottle

Please see the care-section, "water", for the ongoing "discussion" about whether or not hamsters needs water.

There are a few different types of water-bottles available.
The most common is the brand "drinky" from Ferplast, cause they are delivered together with their cages. Personally i prefer these bottles. I have never had problems with them, after i realized, that these bottles should not be filled up to the maximum! I usually fill them up to 70%, that´s enough.

Please, don´t use a bowl for water ! Hamsters are tending to dump their bedding everywhere, so a water-bowl would be filled with bedding in no time and there would be no clear water left to drink (if you don´t want to change the water two times a day...).

You can use all kinds of bowls for your hamsters foodbowl. The only restrictions are:

• hard enough to survive hamster-teeth
• big enough to allow your hamster to sit inside while eating (hamsters loves it!)
• without additional colors (eg. paintings that could be chewed up by the hamster)
• good materials: glas, stone, hard plastic, metal
• bad materials: soft plastic (will be chewed up), wood

Foodbowl

Wood-shaving

Fluffy bedding