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Originally when I was getting everything ready for my Hamster I bought an 11″ Wodent Wheel. This was on Petsmart.com, so I wasn’t fully aware of just how big an 11″ wheel was. That was a moment of stupidity, really, 11″ is… 11″ ….duh. I ended up taking it back to the store and getting a 6.5″ Silent Spinner. It should be noted that I planned on getting a Syrian Hamster, not the Dwarf Russian that I actually have now. Either way, the 6.5″ is the most appropriate size for a dwarf, it’s actually a bit on the small side for a Syrian.

Phineas wouldn’t really use the 6.5″ wheel. I sort of figured it took too much effort to move something so much larger than he was. When I was at Petsmart to get credit for my ziplock bag full of dead Cardinals (they all died, shocker) I picked up the mini Silent Spinner, which is very, very small. Phineas used that one right away, it is by the way, the size he had in his home at the store.

The weird thing is that now he’s been using the larger wheel. It’s almost as if he needed to use the one he recognized from before to put it together that the big one was just that, a bigger one, and that it worked the same way. It’s a little annoying that I had to buy a second wheel so he’d use the first though, heh.