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The wheel(s) that come with the Habitrail OVO cage have three long holes that line the middle of the wheel where the hamster is to run; Habitrail has stated that the holes are to allow waste to drop through, but the legs of hamsters (especially the dwarfs) tend to fall into the holes. The high &
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types, as they can not climb up the tube. In response, the Rolf C. Hagen Corp. introduced two new housings in 2007: the Habitrail OVO, which featured a larger modular design that also made it easier to observe hamsters and maintain their housing, and a similar cage with narrower tubes designed for
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The word "habitrail" is also used in reference to enclosed pedestrian walkways, particularly those with few or no side branches, offering no personal choice of route, and those interconnecting unpleasant workplaces such as factories and office buildings.
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The Habitrail has become such a long-running institution that the name has almost become a generic word for any maze-like tubular structure: for example, "
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smooth stairs leading to the feeding dish tend to be difficult for smaller hamsters to negotiate.
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corporation. It is a series of translucent plastic tubes and "houses" for use in home
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produced by Data Design Interactive in 2005 and released for the
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Habitrails are rather small. This tends to be a problem for
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