Campaign for the 8.5" Silent Spinner
Calling all hamster lovers, well any animal owner really! We need your help! I think gerbil and mouse owners (and other similar sized animals)
All hamster owners know that hamsters need wheels. And since many hamster lovers have their hamsters in their room, they like to have a good, silent wheel. I remember when the Silent Spinner first made it's way on the shelves. It was a [s]life[/s]sleep saver. The first actually (generally) silent wheel. Soon it was realized that the sizes were all off. 4.5" Silent Spinners are too small for dwarf and Chinese hamsters (and mice for that matter too) and the 6.5" wheel is far too small for the majority of full grown Syrian hamsters. Yet they are sold as the perfect size:
Quote:
6.5" diameter wheel is ideal for hamsters, mice, gerbils, or other small animals
http://www.superpetusa.com/product-l...el-regular.htm
Who hasn't wished for a bigger Silent Spinner? Sure you can just go and buy the 12" wheel, but it doesn't fit in all cages and unnecessarily takes up room in the cage. Not many syrians (except perhaps Swedish syrians, I'm told) actually need a 12.5" wheel anyway. While there are other wheels that are fairly silent they aren't always accessible to most people, while the Silent Spinner is pretty common.
Back in 2007 the pet rat community, who were all fans of Midwest's Ferret Nation cage, campaigned to have Midwest create a rat-friendly version, the Rat Nation. It worked, though was instead called the Critter Nation. Rat lovers all over the world e-mailed them and they got a spiffy, rat-specific cage. A whole new cage. Now a wheel size upgrade can't be too much to ask for in comparison, can it?
So hamster lovers, (even if you don't use the Silent Spinner yourself or if you don't have syrian hamsters [or any hamsters!] to worry about please consider helping out anyway. You never know what the future might hold, right?) please contact the Super Pet Company and let them know of your interest in an 8.5" Silent Spinner. If only a few people e-mail than it won't do much, they need to see that people are really interested in this so that they know it won't be a waste of money to look into and create. So please ask other hamster lovers, re-post on other forums, etc. If we want this to happen then we need more than a few e-mails.
You can even look at it as helping hamsters. Think of the ignorant and misinformed people that buy the 6.5" Silent Spinner thinking it perfect for their syrian; meanwhile their syrian quickly outgrows it and then is left to gain back problems or to go without a useable wheel. Yet had the 8.5" Silent Spinner been there, marked for Syrian hamsters it would be one less issue for that hamster, right?
Consider this while writing perhaps:
-They are a business first and foremost so appeal to that side of them. You have enjoyed their products, like what they have but cannot continue to buy their products nor recommend them to anyone else so long as the wheel is too small to be safe. They don't want to lose money.
-Explain what the problem is and recommend how you think it could be better (i.e it's too small, bad for their backs, needs to be bigger)
-Be polite! Demanding and going 'crazy' on them will not help
-If you have a picture of a syrian on a Silent Spinner that shows it's back curving than consider adding this too.
You can contact them through this e-mail address (the easiest way):
[email protected]
Or if you want to send them a physical letter then this is their contact address:
Super Pet
Attn: Customer Service
2121 Touhy Ave
Elk Grove Village, IL
60007
Or if you want to call they have a number too:
1-847-956-1130
Thank you so much for any support you guys can give! I know I haven't been on lately, but I hope to get my butt back on here more once school dies down in April. :)
