Billy Extension Hamster Cage

After I purchased the small cage from Pets at Home, I made a research of hamsters and I came to the reality that the cages they are selling there are way too small for a Syrian hamster, even if there are even markings that it is suitable for a Syrian hamster.

After I made this discovery I wanted to make a bigger cage for Daisy since even a few days I started to see the symptoms being in too small cage. 

So I planned a trip to Ikea and I bought a Billy extension for book shelf. Her cage is made out of 3 Billy extensions because when I bought the parts I didn't think she will come out of the cage so easy and how wrong I was. On the first night she climbed out of the cage !

The dimensions of the cage are 80x70x55. Unfortunately me or my boyfriend we don't have space for any bigger cage, but she seems to be happy in there and doing normal hamster stuff. 

So what I decided is that I'm trying to build higher walls with the third Billy extension. I screwed extra holes on top of the cage walls and I attached the extra walls with the metal plugs that came with the package. 

To be honest the cage is not the most beautiful one, but at least she has more space to run around and all her small cage symptoms are gone. 

Daisy has in her cage sand bath, several hideouts, tubes and 20cm diameter Trixie wheel (Bigger on is on order) and also some chew toys to keep her teeth tidy and short 

My Little Furry Baby

Final burst before it's the cut of date for my German assignment! But before that there is always a time for a short brake.

I've mentioned in my quick update post that about an month ago we got a small furry baby to our family, a Syrian hamster and we named her Daisy (Hunt)

On 31st of December we were on our way to a supermarket and on the way there we decided to go to see cute little animals to Pets at home which is really nearby.
And when we came out from the store, we had purchased cage and a hamster, the food we left into the supermarket, we even didn't go in, since we had our hands full already.

She is about 4 months old at the moment and I read somewhere that Syrian hamsters are laid back and not that quick in their moves, who knows if they are just saying that or can be also that we just chose extremely vivacious little lady, however is the case, she is very much loved.

After she moved in, we have changed her cage about 4 times bogged cage. At the pet shop they are giving wrong kind of information about cages and pretty much everything. It would be better to do some research about hamster housing, which unfortunately I didn't do. But I learned pretty fast since I kept reading and watching hamster care youtube channels for hours for the first few weeks.

Have you had a hamster before and can you provide some good hamster care tips for me? All the tips are more than welcome since I am a beginner with hamsters 

Memories From Italy

I still got the photos from Italy from last December. My computer is still broken and haven't got any chance to get the photos on the blog, but for one more day I still have my boyfriends computer in my use. I am suppose to be doing my German essay, but you can always have an extra brake, even if the cut of date is tomorrow!

Anyway our holiday went kind of smoothly, relaxing visiting Verona, zoo and some small places I never visited before.
One small kind of accident happened, I hunted my knee and few days I had to stay at home doing nothing and after that we had to think what can we do that I don't need to use the knee since I had to not use it for one week.
After all the holiday was really nice, I met up with my friend from Foligno. 3 years passed that we didn't see each other, so it was about the time already!

Weekend in Pohjanmaa

One week goes by too fast, especially when you are having a good time. Last Monday we had a flight to Helsinki- Vantaa airport and tomorrow we're heading back there.
But the week has been filled up with lots of fun and relax. Last Thursday we took a train to Seinäjoki and we've spent here the entire weekend.
It's actually the first time when we see the city of Seinäjoki, last time we came here only for the baptism of Aada, but now we saw lots of other things.

We went to see dogs also we saw a lots of cows and beautiful landscapes. We also climbed 20 meters high sightseeing tower in the middle of nowhere, but you were able to see everything, mostly forest, but it was pretty neat anyway!
And at last we climbed to apple trees to get some apple and now we have lots of apples for the trip back to Helsinki!

The best part was that we were able to play with Aada, change diapers, feed her, bath her and put her to sleep.

Surrey Docks City Farm

The best place when you got nothing to do and definitely make you happy, The city farms of London.

Last Sunday again one more time at the Surrey Docks City Farm. 

We had a lazy Sunday, breakfast at 2pm and after that we headed to the farm so we didn't have that much time to spend there since it closed at 5pm, but at least I got some photos with goats and little piglets and other animals!

The farm is actually really nice place to spend afternoon, you can even buy some food for the animals and feed them. And also they have this little cute farm shop where you can buy the products they are producing in the farm, several kind of eggs and vegetables and also if you like you can buy seeds from the shop and start growing pumpkins and cucumbers by yourself

Deers & Nature in Richmond Park

Now after all the uni exams and few weeks holiday, I have finally found some time and will to post again here.

About one month ago I did go to Richmond park with my boyfriend. I was expecting a small park with some animals. I heard there were deers before, but I never thought the park would be so huge and in my opinion it wasn't quite like a park, but very lovely place!

We were lucky it was a hot and sunny day, even there were some dark clouds approaching we didn't get wet, except of the walking. During the day we walked more than 20 km!