Potty training

Question
Well I bought a bow of hamster Potty litter thinking it came with a bathroom but it didn't So I added the litter to one of the cages add ons I bought. I pick the hamster up sometimes and show him while I take some soiled in bedding a poop pellets and add them to his "potty area" and then put him in there. As soon as I do he goes straight down his tubes to get out and nevers goes back. I have a enclosed wheel and he ran in it up to the time I went to bed without going in it when I woke up the next day I say he was sleeping in it and it was covered with poop and pee it was nasty, so I removed the wheel and keep showing him his bathroom and the poop in it but still refuses to do anything with it? Should I try something diffrent? how can I get him to go there? I want him to because I would like to add the wheel back on but I hate to find him sleeping in his own waste again, or worse spining around in the wheel in it. should I buy a different potty that I can move around INSIDE the cage so I can put it where we goes and then move it to a better place, will he still go in it if I move it?

Answer
Hamsters aren't the smartest when it comes to using the potty. Some hamsters are unable to be potty trained with a certain cage set up. In order for the store bought hamster potty to work, it has to be placed in the area of the cage the hamster most uses for that purpose. In my hamster's cage, he uses the same area he sleeps in (the look out nest) as his potty, there for I can never use a store bought hamster potty to train him. The only way I could change that is to take out his look out tower, but he loves it. Don't feel bad, they shouldn't even bother to sell those things, hamsters aren't the kind of animal who can be trained. Unless the potty and sleeping areas are separate, which you have no control over, then you will never be successful with potty training him.