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Small-pet keeper tools
Simple, honest tools that answer the questions small-pet keepers actually ask — each built from Hayfold’s own fact-checked care data, free, and with nothing that affects your pet’s welfare ever hidden behind a login.
Is my cage big enough?
Pet-shop cages are usually too small. Check yours against fact-checked minimums — and where an authority gives a number, compare your own dimensions. Where the honest answer is “as large as possible,” we say so.
Open tool →What can my small pet eat?
The question keepers ask most. A species-by-species safe / treat / avoid diet guide — including the make-or-break rules like a guinea pig’s daily vitamin C and why degus can’t have sugar — plus a dangerous-foods list.
Open tool →Does my pet need a friend?
Solitary, pair, or colony? Get the honest, species-by-species answer on whether your small pet should live with its own kind or completely alone — one of the most-often-wrong decisions in the hobby.
Open tool →Is this normal, or should I worry?
Small pets hide illness until it’s advanced. See the red-flag signs that mean “see an exotic vet” for your species, taken straight from our care guides. Honest triage — never a diagnosis.
Open tool →Which small pet suits me?
Seven honest questions — company, handling, when it’s awake, space, feeding and commitment — matched against our fact-checked traits to a shortlist of small pets that actually fit your life. A starting point, not a verdict.
Open tool →Compare two small pets
Torn between two? See them side by side — difficulty, size, lifespan, company, housing, temperature, diet and grooming — pulled straight from our care sheets, so the comparison can never contradict a guide.
Open tool →Which bedding is safe?
The wrong bedding quietly makes small pets ill. A fact-checked safe / caution / unsafe guide — why pine, cedar and fluffy “fibre” bedding are dangerous — plus the right substrate, species by species.
Open tool →Is my pet’s wheel big enough?
An undersized wheel bends a small pet’s spine into a painful curve. Check your hamster, gerbil, mouse, degu or hedgehog wheel against fact-checked minimum diameters — and see which animals should never use one.
Open tool →Is it too hot for my pet?
Heatstroke is a summer killer of small pets, and cold torpor a winter one. Enter the room temperature to check it against fact-checked safe ranges for chinchillas, guinea pigs, rabbits, hamsters, hedgehogs and more.
Open tool →How old is my pet, really?
Each species ages on its own clock. Enter your pet’s age for its life stage, how far through its typical lifespan it is, and what to start watching for as it gets older.
Open tool →Care scheduler & husbandry log
A printable feeding schedule and daily/weekly/monthly routine for your species — plus a private, on-device husbandry log that remembers each pet and charts its weight trend, the earliest warning a prey animal gives you.
Open tool →More tools are on the way. Deeper detail lives in each care guide, the glossary, the Q&A and oursmall-pets-by-the-numbers data reference.