| | |  | Hamster & Gerbil | Home » » » Super Pet Hamster Potty | | | | | | | Description: | | The hamster potty was developed to take advantage of your small animals natural instinct to go potty in one specific area of their home. The hamster potty can be placed anywhere inside of any hamster or gerbil home and it comes complete with free sample of potty litter and sifting scoop to help with cleaning the litter. Yes, you really can potty train your small animal pet. | | | Features: | |
• Potty train your small animal
• Includes free sample of potty litter and a sifting scoop
• For hamsters or gerbils
• 6-Inch long, 3-1/2-inch wide, 2-3/4-inch high
• Can be placed anywhere inside of any hamster or gerbil home
| | | Product Details: | | | Product Length:
| 3.5 inches | | Product Width:
| 5.75 inches | | Product Height:
| 3.5 inches | | Product Weight:
| 2.0 pounds | | Package Length:
| 6.4 inches | | Package Width:
| 3.5 inches | | Package Height:
| 2.7 inches | | Package Weight:
| 0.05 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 21 reviews |
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43 of 44 found the following review helpful:
 Works great!Jul 15, 2008
By notAyesperson
"Always in search of good books"
Hamsters do go to them. They love sitting in there grooming themselves and sometimes cooling down to sleep when the environment is hot. You will spend less time cleaning soiled cages if you use these potties. They were lifesavers when I used them. I bought like 3, five or six yrs ago and they still work great. Use 'Fresh Step' regular kitty litter with these. You can get it at any grocer. It turns out to be the best litter for odor control and the hammies don't appear affected or allergic to it. Every hamster I've ever owned has used this potty for a litter. If they don't go to it is probably because the type of litter affects their respiratory system.
18 of 19 found the following review helpful:
Pee OnlyFeb 22, 2010
By Katherine
Our hammie loves her pottie, and uses it exclusively to pee. She still poops all over the cage. Keeping the cage shavings dry is healthier for the animal. You can easily clean the potty every day, whereas cleaning the entire cage every day, or even every few days, can be impractical. She used it after about a day of is being there. She's had it for one year, and it's quite funny -- she gets up out of her igloo during her middle of the day's sleep, goes pee in her potty, takes a drink out of her bottle, and goes back to "bed" in her igloo.
We use a pellitized wood shaving product for the potty. It's sold at the pet store, and is just different enough from the shavings that she treats it as what it is. I've never seen her put it in her mouth.
12 of 14 found the following review helpful:
 Good idea, but not too effective.May 29, 2010
By Ellie Hawkins
"Pelloneus"
I have a pet gerbil named Jade who is getting quite old. Her sister died last year, and she's too frail to put up with a new companion introduction, so she lives on her own.
As she got older, Jade began going to the bathroom in only one corner, which she had never done before. It became a hassle having to clean the whole tank so often because of all the "contents" being in one corner while the rest of the litter stayed clean. One day, I noticed this at the store and thought it would be an ideal solution. I'd be able to keep her home cleaner and she'd be healthier and happier, so I bought it.
When I first put it in her tank, she went to inspect it after a few minutes. Instead of using it to go to the bathroom, however, she started EATING the litter! I thought she'd realise after a while that it wasn't food, but after a few minutes she was still trying to eat it. And I'm sure she wasn't just trying to use it for nesting material, because she actually was eating it, not just shredding it up.
I ended up dumping the litter (I wasn't sure how safe it was for her to be eating it), but I kept the litter box. I filled it with a little bit of aspen bedding and put it in her potty corner, and she uses it regularly. It's much easier to keep her tank clean, with daily litterbox cleanings and weekly tank cleanings.
Overall, the litterbox itself was a good idea, but the litter seems a little too "tasty" to use. I'd recomment using aspen or corncob bedding as "litter" instead of the included material.
7 of 8 found the following review helpful:
 Good potty except for shapeApr 05, 2011
By M. Brown
The top for the potty is unnecessary and my prompt your hamster to use the potty for a nest instead of a potty since hamsters like enclosed areas to make there nests. Also, the oval shape is not the best for location in a corner of the cage, if that is where your hamster has chosen for there potty location, but other than these minor problems the potty works fine. A note of advice in using the potty, let your hamster choose the location for the potty. Hamsters are clean creatures and usually will select one spot in there cage in which to urinate. I suggest noting this spot and put scooping up the soiled bedding and use in the potty for the first time. This helps the hamster identify the potty. When you change out the bedding in the potty the first time you can move to using litter.
Some of the biggest complaints I have seen is the hamster eating the litter used, and for that I'd just suggest changing litter types. Personally, I use Tidy Cat litter in my potty and have had no problems with my hamster eating it. She does play in her potty, digging around in the litter, but that is not a big deal.
Also note, the potty is not for feces. Rodent feces do not smell and are not a big problem in the cage unless you want to never clean your cage (in which case, don't get a rodent for a pet). It is the urine that smells, and having a smaller area to change out and clean fairly often is a lot easier than the entire cage.
4 of 4 found the following review helpful:
Great ProductFeb 23, 2011
By faeriekat
I bought this shortly after purchasing my 2 dwarf hamsters. It is great. At first they didn't use it, they peed in their wheel. But I read on the box that if you place it where they naturally go, then there is a better chance of them using it. So I put it where the wheel use to go and moved the wheel and now they go potty in it instead! It definitely helps to keep the cage cleaner and more sanitary.
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