hello,
I hope someone here can advise. I am improvising a cage at the moment until I can afford to buy grids to make a CC cage. So for the time being I am housing them in what would normally be a run - they have had it a week now and are MUCH happier and so am I as I have been so worried - they didnt "sing" for days. It is 57" square and I have a divider of wire cooling trays down the middle.
However, there is no base in the cage so I bought a nylon base sheet thingy on which I have placed newspapers and then 2 towels - its not ideal but I only had one fleece thing which I washed today as it was covered. I couldnt not wash it any longer and I couldnt get to town today, hopefully I will be able to tommorrow to get some more (well hopefully anyway as I am snowed in). For the past 2 days they have had fleece on newspaper which has been damp as you can imagine. I was also thinking this afternoon that the laminate gets very cold on my feet so I am concerned that they will be cold too. I cant afford to heat the house all the time so between 8.30 am until around 4.30 the heating is off which means it gets very chilly in the house.
Plus it took me an hour to tidy and clean the cage out this evening - hence why I am here so late. I am unsure whether I should be putting hay into there hidyholes to help them to keep warm - I have only been giving them eating hay in the racks with very little for them to lie on as they love to snuggle and eat at the same time.
Thanks for any advice - I really want them to be comfortable.
I hope someone here can advise. I am improvising a cage at the moment until I can afford to buy grids to make a CC cage. So for the time being I am housing them in what would normally be a run - they have had it a week now and are MUCH happier and so am I as I have been so worried - they didnt "sing" for days. It is 57" square and I have a divider of wire cooling trays down the middle.
However, there is no base in the cage so I bought a nylon base sheet thingy on which I have placed newspapers and then 2 towels - its not ideal but I only had one fleece thing which I washed today as it was covered. I couldnt not wash it any longer and I couldnt get to town today, hopefully I will be able to tommorrow to get some more (well hopefully anyway as I am snowed in). For the past 2 days they have had fleece on newspaper which has been damp as you can imagine. I was also thinking this afternoon that the laminate gets very cold on my feet so I am concerned that they will be cold too. I cant afford to heat the house all the time so between 8.30 am until around 4.30 the heating is off which means it gets very chilly in the house.
Plus it took me an hour to tidy and clean the cage out this evening - hence why I am here so late. I am unsure whether I should be putting hay into there hidyholes to help them to keep warm - I have only been giving them eating hay in the racks with very little for them to lie on as they love to snuggle and eat at the same time.
Thanks for any advice - I really want them to be comfortable.