KayteeChinchilla Hut

I was apprehensive while reading the many bad reviews, but I took a leap of faith and bought it anyways since Amazon has a fantastic return policy.I had a little bit of trouble fitting the pieces together, and an end piece broke off, but it still went together nicely and all sides stayed attached, even without me glueing the broken piece on.My hamster has more than enough room now! Also, my hamster never chews on any wood items in her cage, so I'm not concerned with this hut not being the right type of wood for her. Plus, animals in the wild don't have anyone there to mediate what they have contact with or not and they do perfectly fine. We need to stop treating animals like infant children.

I bought this same item earlier this year, it was very sturdy especially when putting it together. I needed to buy a new one for my chinchilla since she chewed it to pieces. So I ordered the exact same thing - except this time the wood snapped in half when putting it together, the top wouldn’t fit no matter what, looks like the two wood beams on it were glued in the wrong spot.Very unfortunate and I ended up having to spend more money on a different house since this was was extremely cheap/easily broken this time around.

These are decently priced for what you receive. I much prefer these wooden huts, as I have rats and they constantly chew. I would much rather they chew wood instead of bits of plastic from igloos or sputniks. My only complaints with this and similar products is that wood absorbs urine and will become stained and smelly after long term use. This product does not have a floor, which is an excellent design choice to avoid excessive urine build up on the interior, which could be very detrimental to animals with sensitive respiratory tracts such as rats. They do enjoy lounging on the tops however, so the tops do have this absorption issue and get nasty quick.These huts will also fall apart fairly easily after the rats have chewed the corners where it connects. Once this happens, I simply spread the pieces out and rearrange them when I clean cages. They still utilize the pieces as chew toys, even if its no longer a hut.

Used for 2 chinchillas as a hideout as well as something for them to chew on that would last more than a day and it works brilliantly.

I had been looking at various hay boxes for my guinea pigs, but everything I found was handmade and going to cost $35 or more plus high shipping costs. Then I came across this and it looked perfect!I recused two young female guinea pigs (only 2 months old and from the same litter) abd they BOTH turned out to be pregnant. That was quite a surprise! So now I have 6 babies who are growing fast and eating A LOT. I was filling their hay sack 4+ times a day so I needed something to hold a good amount of hay to get them through the day. This is the perfect solution!The pieces slid together fairly easily. The top was a bit snug and took some finagling to get on, but I am glad because it has a good tight fit which is perfect since I am using the hut upside down.It is making a great hay box for my guinea pigs and was much more cost effective than other items designed for the purpose. The hay stays neatly inside the box for the most part, it holds a lot, and it's easy to fill! One of the mommas even likes to stretch up and get her hay from the top. The opening is large which is great for a few piggies to be eating at the same time. The only downside to that is that the babies can crawl inside with the hay which I don't love because they poop in there. But once they're bigger it shouldn't be such an issue.P.S. For anyone wondering, no, I am not planning to keep all 6 babies. Just waiting for them to be old enough to separate from their mothers and then they will go to new families in pairs. And yes, I am taking them to the vet to be sexed so this doesn't happen again.

So I LIKE this hut, but I don't LOVE it. I have two female chinchillas and It's the only one I found that is OKAY. I thought it would be bigger, but it's only the size for ONE female to BARELY fit in to it (which is typically larger than males) but BOTH want in it LOL -- So I ended up having to rush deliver another one to calm the chinchin storm!!Anyway...The wood was easy to slide into place even though there was NO DIRECTIONS that came with it, I figured it out even though I'm not a typically logical sort of person...I thought there would be a bottom piece though, and if there was supposed to be, I did not get it. I don't like that because my Chinchillas have an all metal cage (as recommended since they chew through EVERYTHING... and so I had to put down plastic (which they promptly started to chew--UGH) because there was no bottom to rest their tiny little feet after walking on the grating all night.BUT they LOVE to be in it (just not to share ;) ) so I can't complain about that... In short... :1) Should be a little bigger, only good for ONE female to squeeze in to (how she does it, I don't know lol!)2) No directions, Who does that??3) No bottom piece??4) BUT my Chinchins LOVE it, so it's a WIN in my book.5) I LIKED it enough to order another one. Make sure you buy one/Chinchilla or else there will be fights over it!!***EDIT*** =So these two huts (I purchased two) are SO incredibly cheap, the second one I ordered the wood wasn't cut properly so it didn't sit properly in the cage. Ultimately that made it really easy for my chinchillas to push it around. Both of the huts fell from the first ledge onto the bottom of the habitat safely, but the weight of the chinchillas sitting on top of the side panel cracked them in half. Both of my huts are broken now, being used as platforms to sit on rather than to sleep in.I would not recommend this to anyone, because they didn't even last a week. Coming pre flawed just expedited the inevitable.I wouldn't of minded if the wood was chewed through or what not... With chinchillas that is to be expected... But the flimsy design makes it to where this hut really isn't safe or suitable for any animal, let alone a fat furry-butted chinchin ;)I'm ditching the wood and looking for metal or plastic huts... Anything that is bound to last longer than a week like these.

He usually breaks it pretty fast but he loves it while it lasts.

My chins love these huts and I have a couple. I had one come damaged and it was replaced immediately. Easy to assemble and made very well.

Quick delivery, it was a gift for an animal sanctuary, they wrote on social media they were very grateful

Één ervan was al stuk aangekomen. De andere is stuk gegaan bij het in elkaar zetten.Heb het dan in elkaar gezet met lijm maar is het door de geur????? dat ze er niet in willen?Zelfs knabbele' doen ze er niet aan???

Alles prima!Kein chemischer Geruch und schönes glattes Holz. Wurde von unserem Chinchilla direkt gut angenommen.

Tres belle petite cabane ! Convient pour deux jeunes rats. Un peu petit pour un chinchilla. Belle finition. Arrive en kit a monter. Tres facile a monter mais attention fragile.