Make it a legal requirement to give pet hamsters suitably sized cages.

Rejected 21 signatures

What the petition asks

Most hamster owners are sold cages by pet shops that are too small, very much under the RSPCA's old 80x50cm recommended size, which has been removed from their literature despite the clear improvement in behaviour and wellbeing when hamsters are housed in cages of this size or larger.

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/3891/ee836d1c5fd8479e67ae51c6069167f0f78e.pdf - hamsters in larger cages chew the bars of their cage less frequently.

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1258/002367799780578246 - small cages induce chronic stress, affecting thermoregulation.

Why it was rejected

There was already a petition about this issue. Duplicates are rejected so signatures collect in one place.

Set a legal minimum requirement for hamster cages

Timeline

31 Oct 2018	Petition opened for signatures
6 Nov 2018	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 21

Status Rejected

Rejected 6 Nov 2018

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