Cleaning the Cage

Once a week, you should clean out the cage and once a month clean everything. Here is what I do.


Put Jet in the ball and make sure she's fine.
Take the water bottle off the cage and take all toys out and put them on a table.
Take the base off and with 2 shopping bags (1 inside the other) pour whole contents into bag.
Take the wheel off and give it a good scrub with an old toothbrush and some small animal disinfectant spray. Leave to dry or dry with paper towels.
Do the same with the base and dry with some kitchen toweling.
Put fresh shavings in base and put a bit of her old bedding back in.
Reattach wheel and put cage back together.
Put toys back in cage.
At this point I rinse and fill the water bottle and put it back on the cage. I also empty, scrub, dry her house and put new nesting material in and a bit of the old lot.
The only thing left to do is wash the food bowl and put fresh food in.
Put hamster back in cage.