Hamster Not Using Wheel? Here's Why

The wheel is still. Your hamster walks past it every night. And you're starting to wonder if something is wrong. Something might be. There are 6 completely different reasons a hamster stops using its wheel — and they each require a different response. One of them is a sign of pain. One is a design flaw in the wheel itself. And one means the wheel was never going to work from the moment you placed it in the enclosure. In this video we go through all six: wrong size, wrong surface, wrong placement, substrate buildup, stress, and illness.