Review on Portable And Breathable Pet Playpen For Small Animals - Perfect For Guinea Pigs, Rabbits, Hamsters, & More! by Shannon Myers

If you want to enrich your hamster's life, I highly recommend getting them a playpen. Here is how I used this playpen to further tame my ham and give him some fun:I have a Campbell's dwarf hamster. He is pretty tame, likes being held, etc. I bought this playpen so I could give him a playground to play in outside of his (giant 60"x12") tank. I used to let him roam my room (I blocked off all doors and underside of my bed with thick foam board) but he zooms so fast sometimes it's hard to keep an eye on him and I like watching him.To start him off, I just wanted him to get used to the playpen and think of it as a safe space. He likes getting cuddles while he's in his tank, but not while he's out with me, so I was hoping the playpen would become a safe space for him and then I could get in it with him and bond with him more. I am a medium-sized adult female-5'7"- and I can sit with my legs crossed in the pen very comfortably, and he still has lots of room.I knew to make his playpen a safe space I should have some static fixtures in it. So I marked with a pen the outlines of his toys (seen in the picture) so I could always put most of them in the same place. Very quickly after I started doing that he got so used to the playpen he'd fall asleep in it and not wanna go home!I use the playpen to house him when I clean his house. However, lately, he has gotten so comfortable, he has figured out he enjoys CLIMBING THE SIDES OF THE PLAYPEN. (See video)Toast is too chicken to jump out unless I put my hand up for him to jump on, but I'm still worried he'll injure himself from freefalling like that. If you have a gutsy hamster, he may well jump out. So, when he gets to hyper now, I have to put him up, but I do like playing the climbing game with him where I let him climb out onto my hand and put him back in. Hamsters in the wild may climb but our little hamsters don't, so I guess it's an enjoyable little enrichment activity for him.Anyway, this is a super valuable tool for bonding with your small animal! I call it Toastland - it's his amusement park. It's also great for getting those big playsets that are too big to fit in his tank and trying them out.It is definitely waterproof, if he pees in it it just sits on top and can be wiped away, but the material does absorb the smell of the urine unless you use some kind of solvent. I wash this playpen with soap and water and leave it outside to dry maybe every 10 uses. I haven't once been able to fold it back into the small circle it came in, but it's fine for me to just fold it to the size of the sides.