In today’s market, you can find many modern running wheels for small animals. The Wodent Wheel by Transoniq is one of the best.
First, a little history of pet wheels. As recent as 15 years ago, the only pet running wheels you could find had big metal horizontal bars as the running surface. The wheel had a stand so it sat in the cage. Each side of the wheel had a big strip of metal which the stand went through.
Over time, people realized these types of wheels had two major safety issues.
- As your animal ran, his feet could easily become caught in the horizontal spokes of the wheel.
- Your pet could easily get caught between the bar of the stand and the cross bars as the wheel rotated. This was very dangerous, not only for animals with long tails, but also for multiple animals using the wheel at the same time. If one animal tried to get in the wheel while another was making it rotate, it could get pinched.
Some pet wheel companies replaced the bars of the running surface with a mesh, which addressed the first problem. Small feel won’t slip through the small mesh. In stores today, this is the most common type of wheel you’ll come across.
But it wasn’t until the mid 90s that people started addressing the second problem. And that’s how in 1995, the Wodent Wheel came to be. The founder, Eric Geislinger, wanted to create a running wheel that was safe for his pet rats. That’s why Eric created a wheel whose stand attaches to the wheel on its closed end. Picture a hat box with no lid. Since the stand is attached to the wall of the wheel, there is absolutely no way for a pet to get caught between the stand and the wheel.
And Eric went even further in his design. He covered the open side of the wheel with a lid that has circular openings, which are appealing to the wall-hugging instincts of many small animals. Small pets love the feeling of crawling into enclosed places. They also feel safer as they run.
My own pets love the design of their Wodent Wheel so much, they sometimes sleep in it.
From that time on, other exercise wheel designs have come forward with the safety of your pet in mind. But the Wodent Wheel was the original pet wheel designed for maximum safety. In fact, The Wodent Wheel is the only exercise wheel ever recommended and approved by the ASPCA during their Seal of Approval program (1999-2006).
The Wodent Wheel has 3 different sizes to accommodate a wide variety of pets:
The Wodent Junior is for small animals such as hamsters
The Wodent Senior is for medium-sized pets such as sugar gliders and large hamsters
Wodent Wobust for rats, hedgehogs and other large pets
You can sometimes find them at pet stores, or you can order the Wodent Wheel from wodentwheeldirect.com.
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