Woman makes mini homes for hamster inspired by TV shows

By Leo Black via SWNS

A woman creates impressive miniature homes inspired by her favorite TV shows like "Stranger Things" or "Full House."

Bridget McCarty, 39, spends weeks at a time carefully crafting the houses in boxes designed to look like walls with each costing up to £390 ($500).

Bridge also allows her tiny hamster Snowball to explore them, which she adores.

The houses take from a few weeks to a month to build and require painstakingly gluing hundreds of pieces together.

Bridget also hand-painted the boxes and wires them by hand so they can be plugged in and lit up.

The homes are single rooms and end up inside a wooden box, which are approximately two feet wide, so Snowball can take time to explore them.

The content creator from Los Angeles said: "I do work on this like a full-time job. [The houses] take me a couple weeks to build, or up to a month."

"Each piece requires painting, assembling and gluing. There are lots of steps, especially hiding the electrical wires.

"It can cost anywhere between two hundred and five hundred dollars.

"If I have to buy more expensive items the price goes up. It helps to buy a few pieces just so that it doesn’t take me half a year to finish the project."

Bridget has been making the miniatures for twenty years but only started letting Snowball in them a few months ago.

The suggestion came from her followers and Snowball adores looking around the tiny homes.

She said: "I’ve built miniature houses in the past but never really thought of them as homes for hamsters or mice until my followers began telling me that.

"[Snowball] is always begging to come out of her cage so she can have a look. She is very curious and sweet."