Quote Originally Posted by Vermontcat
Ceramic dishes are good, they will chew plastic ones to bits.

You can keep them in the same room as your hamsters, my gerbils cage was near my parakeet's cage and they liked having neighbors.

Yes, get them run-about-balls!
My gerbils loved racing around in theirs and they were safe around my cat too.
They fit in the regular sized balls that Syrian hamsters fit in.

All my rodents are in the same room also, they are fine in the same room together

But even in a run-about ball you have to be careful if you have cats, it wouldn't take more than a split second for my cats to pounce on the ball and break it open.

Things like that can happen extremely fast without time to stop it.