hey guys so I know I said I wasn't gonna do one of these videos but I just feel
like it has not been talked about enough so today I am going to be
reviewing the tiny tales comfy house by Petsmart if you don't know yet Petsmart
came out with their own line of hamster cages
sadly all of which are unsuitable it's very disappointing because Petsmart
could do so much better and if you want to help pet smart create better and more
humane hamster cages for hamsters please sign the petition down in the
description bar below we're trying to get 20,000 signatures before we send it
off to pet smart and then hopefully we can work together with them to create
better humane hamster cages unlike these if you are unfamiliar with hamster care
a hamster should have a cage that is no smaller than 450 square inches of floor
space I actually recommend even bigger because they are animals who need a lot
of space now this cage has only about 241 square inches of floor space and I
just want to point out it does say here ideal for hamsters gerbils and mice
because I know I'm gonna get a comment saying this is made for dwarf hamsters, no
it's not it doesn't list anywhere that it is only for dwarf hamsters and this
isn't suitable for a dwarf hamster either they need just as much space as
any other hamster another thing I want to mention is how disappointing these
cages are for the fact that these are specifically marketed towards children
as you can see the box is super like fun looking there's a cartoon hamster on the
back it literally says collect and connect them all it sounds like a
children's toy a hamster is not a child's toy it is a living breathing
animal hamsters shouldn't be marketed as a child's play toy so let's get to
opening this cage,
oh my gosh so we have the bars here
some styrofoam, my rabbits litter box is bigger than the base of this cage. Oh are
you trying to help me help enough thank you okay I got everything out so the
first thing that I see in here is it looks to be stickers because once again
this is marketed towards children as a children's toy this really reminds me of
a McDonald's Happy Meal when you get like little extra things with your toy
and then there is Oh a word search too nice
yeah this is literally so marketed towards children it's not even funny so
one of the first things I actually want to do is I want to measure this base
myself when you're measuring a hamster cage usually the measurements on the box
are going to tell you the outside measurements not to mention these have
curved edges so this cage is most likely even smaller than what I said at the
beginning of the video so after I have measured the base myself it turns out
this cage actually only has a hundred and fifty five square inches of floor
space slide a clear tube panel okay one of these thingies why is it so difficult
okay
this like clippie thing is not clipping down on there so that's not clearly secure, wow love that
this wire does not want to stay in the place ooh this wire literally is not it does
not fit this base that's great. We did it it is secured to this base! Cleo you're
literally the same size as this hamster cage isn't that hilarious
so the rings that go on these tubes are so hard to literally take off once you
have put it on a tube oh my gosh can you imagine trying to clean these. This wire is
not even in the base okay you good? Okay so I got the platform in there and it's
actually secure this time so it's not gonna like wobble around, now it is telling
me to grab the water bottle and I want to point out how badly made this water
bottle is if you can see this the spout goes down do you know the type of angle
a hamster is going to have to reach up and drink at this they are going to have
to bend of their neck so terribly bad it can actually cause issues when they're
having to bend their neck like that to drink out of a water bottle I really
don't like this water bottle at all I really just don't like this cage in
general the next step is to attach this wheel which has tubes in it I do also
want to point out this video that comes with the cage I think this is like a six
inch wheel this is too small for Syrians and most hamsters unless you have a robo
then yes this is going to fit alright but any other hamster this is going to
cause back issues and their back will Bend
especially since Syrians are actually one of the most popular bought hamsters
this isn't suitable for them this is supposed go oh there we go okay that's a
little bit better, k you, can you,
you just like just sit there honestly. connect okay get all these tubes I guess
and I got to do some connecting yay
oh I have to create the hidey hut okay so these thing, we have to build
Did I put this on backwards? oh shoot
remove the cap from the right side of the house
take that off, throw it away
gotta pop this one out
that is not my favorite type of secure-ness but oh there we go ha ha we got it. Doesn't
wanna attach which isn't safe because you need it to be secure we're just
gonna leave it like this because I absolutely have tried my hardest I
cannot clip these for the life of me no matter how hard I push on this clip it
does not want to stay down, this is literally floating I bet how does this
i brok- how does this door even open I don't
phew I'm sweating so bad right now so that was the most
frustrating thing I've ever had to do I have had more success setting up an
Ikea detolf than I have this cage um let's just go through this a little bit
this this doesn't even attach- like this bit- this top part it's not even attached
because I literally have tried my hardest to try and clip these things
down like I've pushed with all my strength it will not clip the base this
is about a two inch I think this is about a two inch base hamsters need to
have a section in their cage that has at least six inches of bedding so that
gives them the ability to burrow a hamster can't burrow in two inches
another thing I do want to mention a lot of people think that just because it has
this little Clubhouse on top of here, they think this adds space it really
doesn't this really does not count when it comes
to hamster floorspace a hamster needs running space they don't need climbing
space and a level like this does not count when it comes to floor space so
overall I'm just so disappointed with pet smart
so I'm just looking at this cage the wire popped out oh there we go popped it
back in so now I wanted to show you guys what the cage would actually look like
if they had a hamster in it, this is honey my Syrian hamster so honey is a
relatively small Syrian which is why she's okay to fit through these tubes
but an average size Syrian I would really worry about trying to get through
these tubes and I would worry that they would get stuck as you can see she can't
even fit in this wheel and her back was bending quite a bit when she did get in there
a hamster living its lifetime in one of these cages can cause serious
stress to a hamster and boredom you'll often see your hamster climbing the bars
of the cage because they have nothing else to do as well as constantly bar
chewing. Honey has been in this cage for less than five minutes and she already
is starting to chew on the bars
I also wanted to show you guys for in comparison here this is a 110 QT bin cage this has around 500 square inches
of floor space give or take and this is compared to the tiny tails cage so as
you can see the tiny tails cage could probably fit in this cage if I detach the
tubes it could probably fit this way two and a half or three times so if
you were thinking of getting one of these cages please save your money and
go for something else bin cages are cheap you can also find used large tanks
on Craigslist or kijiji this just is not a good cage and it does not provide the
hamster the space it needs so please for your hamsters sake go with something
bigger so yeah guys now I need to take this all apart so I can put it back in
the box and take it back to pet smart because I'm not giving them any of my
money so I hope you guys enjoyed this review thank you for watching bye
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