Verified Reviews for Qute Hamster & Gerbil Cage

I bought this cage after having problems with previous hamster cages(hamster managed to escape from one & cat knocked over another style of cage!) I thought this one looked safer aswell as looking like a great piece of furniture! The instructions were very confusing to understand but once I'd figured them out it was actually quite easy to build! Similar to ikea furniture which I love to build! I was missing a couple of screws but was sent out replacements very quickly! I tried to phone numerous times and no one ever answered the phone but I got very satisfactory responses from Facebook messenger! I'm very happy with the cage and would definitely recommend it! My hamster is quite old now and my only concern was that the tube would be difficult for him to get up & down but he managed it straight away without any bother!

This is a wonderful product! We tried many different cages/plastic tubing that the gerbils chewed through until we finally ran across this. It is perfect for my son's two gerbils. They love the exercise wheel and make burrows burrowing in the lower level. My son loves to watch them cozy up in the little dens they make. This has been perfect for us!

The White Qute Hamster Cage. my grand-daughter loves it and so does her hamster, Lily.

My boyfriend got me a walnut omelet cage for Theodore, my Syrian teddy bear hamster. My hamster struggled to climbed up the tube at first.m and we had to teach him how to climbed up. Theodore loves going up and down the tube and going to his play area at the second floor. He goes and sleeps in the bottom floor. I also love the cabinet section below his resting area. I get to hide his food and toys in the cabinet. I admire how the omlet camouflages as a furniture in the room, gives it a feeling of coziness. I’ve always felt disgusted with most hamster cages since they were hard to clean and almost too noisy. The omlet gives Theo space to roam around. He bites the metal of the cage less than his previous cage. It’s also easy to clean! I give the omlet 5 stars!

Bought this as a standalone cage works better in our room than a tabletop one. Having the storage space and the top is useful. The design is good, although I would feel better if they had more daylight in the top section. One gerbil took about a day to get the hang of going up and down the vertical tube - the other took about 3-4 days. It took a bit of patience, giving him lifts up and down to start with. The only downside is that the gerbils push lots of bedding and droppings through the sides, so it is a good job we have a wooden floor - I wouldn't want to have them in a carpeted room.

This is undoubtedly the best looking cage available. However, we do have a problem with it. Whilst one of my gerbils loves it, the other is terrified of the orange tube and won’t go up or down. This means most of the time he is confined to the top. He is very timid and doesn’t like handling, so I have to coax him out and transfer him to the bottom at cleaning time. I wish the design could have incorporated a sloping tube somehow. Such a pity as the rest of the family loves it!

My daughter and I recently acquired a second hamster. We had adopted Possum about six months before. She came home in a cage that was way too small, so without much thought I bought a bigger version of the same cage. We then added Cammy-Bear to our family, but only had a temporary cage. I decided to spend some time researching hamster cages, and came upon Omlet. The price was right, and the functionality and style was perfect. I decided to get two. The two sit side-by-side and fit perfectly into this nook where a VHS cassette storage unit had been. The Omlet really is beautiful. It’s well designed. I’m a single mom, and just so-so with assembling things. Putting the second unit together was a breeze in comparison to the first. The only issue I had, was there are these two small (? 3”) rubber tubes which are to be placed in two inserts on the underside of the top of the unit. You’re to push those tubes into the openings. The metal cage back is shaped to fit into those two inserts, pushing into the rubber tubing, before sliding a metal rod through a pre-drilled hole on one side, through a few metal hoops on the bottom of the metal cage back, and into a pre-drilled hole on the other side. This is to hold the metal back firmly to the unit. Well, the first Omlet I put together, I totally missed this step, and put it together without the rubber tubing. I decided that after seeing all that I would have to undo, to just leave it. I tested out the metal cage back to see if it had too much give that it could pull out of the two inserts, but there was only minimal movement, so I let it go, and made a mental note to be sure and use the tubing on the second one I still had to put together. As I’m putting it together, I get to that point, place the rubber tubing, and when trying to insert the metal cage back by pushing it far enough in, and against the rubber tubing, so that the metal rod could pass through, and line up with the second hole, it wouldn’t. I made several attempts before giving up, and foregoing the rubber tubing. The metal rod without the rubber tubing lined up perfectly. Again, I checked the metal cage back, which fits. Neither hamster can get out. The two Omlets are now put together, and really look beautiful, and were well thought out. My only thought, and it’s by no means a criticism, but merely a suggestion for future design changes. The Omlet is two levels. The bottom is where the bedding goes, and the top is where the food dish, wheel and water bottle go. The top floor is made up of a metal grid on the front and back, and a plastic flooring in the center, which is where the tube runs through for the hamster to go up and down. Both hamsters for whatever reason don’t care to keep their food in the dish, and have decided that they like it in the back corner on the metal grid, which then drops through the metal flooring and in the back, behind the Omlet, and onto the floor. I’ll be jimmying something to catch the food. It’s really more of an issue with the back. If the unit were in casters, it would be easier to move. I understand the gridding was to allow air to circulate, but perhaps a 1-2” tray or shelf could be attached, to catch what they push out. Just an idea. Otherwise, it’s two thumbs up

This is a fantastic cage perfect for our Syrian hamster.. With it being a combined piece of furniture as well as a cage it means the hamster (OREO) isn't just stuck away in a corner and forgotten about, but more intigrated with the family. The plastic tray means we can see her and watch her and lift it out to interact. The concept is such a good one the only draw back I can find and why I ve only given it a 4* is that the urine can leak out of the edges which is unsightly and awkward to clean have to use a cotton bud.. So easy when doing a full clean and bedding change though just take it apart pop it in the bath spay and shower it down.

It's a lovely idea for a hamster 'home' and looks great, but considering the hefty price tag, it may be worth considering cheaper alternatives. One of the clear plastic drawers arrived with a large crack in it and the main catch to the wire cage snapped off within weeks of use. It was also quite time consuming / frustrating to put together -- All in all, very much like the Ikea furniture it strives to be: Very pretty when you eventually finish putting it together, but appearances are deceptive...

We bought this cage about two years ago now, my hamster has loved it. Good quality and plenty of storage !!