Hi Everyone, first of all I am new to the site so sorry if I am re-hashing any old posts.
For Christmas my partner surprised me with 2 adorable female piggies who are now around 5 months old. They came with a Ferplast 80 which they are quickly getting to big for. I have spent hours looking at cages, comparing specs and am getting more confused as to what I can get by the day. Please can people give me some advice and answer some of my questions?
The hard thing is a pretty much know exactly what I want in a cage, I just cannot seem to find the exact thing. My Specifications are:
1. I would like a plastic base with the painted bars - pretty much the same as my current cage, it is a good quality feel and easy to clean
2. I want the large front opening cage on atleast one of the floors - once again like my current cage. I do not like the idea of top opening cages as I feel that coming in from the top is more frightening to the piggies.
3. I really want white (light coloured) bars - so many cages have black bars on either all of some component of the cage. I really want white bars as I feel black bars will take some of the light from the piggies, look silly in the room where they are located and make the piggies more difficult to see.
4. I also would like a multi-story cage, preferably 3 floors to give them as much play space as possible and to future proof incase our piggy family was to get larger in the future.
5. I think a 100cm cage would be more than enough for our piggies and look suitable in the area of the kitchen diner where they currently live. We could probably fit a larger cage in but this might impead in getting around the back of the table.
.... I know I haven't made it easy, I feel like I have narrowed it down to the Ferplast Tris and the Vital 3 tier, the only thing is I can only find these cages with a mix of black and white bars and this is a factor that is really important to me. I have email Ferplast directly to see if there are other colour options available but as yet, no reply.
Can someone tell me if Ferplast and Vital are the same brand as they look identical and the specs seem to be the same, however there can be a price difference?
One option I was thinking of was purchasing 2 x 2 tier Ferplast 100's which do have white bars and using the parts to make one 3 tier cage and one single floor cage which I could sell on. I am not sure if this would be structurally sound though and still my problem is I can only find white bar double cages at Pets at Home and they are £145 each making my little build project £290, which seems a bit mental when other triple cages are £160-190.
Sorry for rambling on, I just want to give Pixie and Sprite the best home I can
Any thoughts on the above would be greatly appreciated
Many Thanks
Robyn, Sprite & Pixie
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For Christmas my partner surprised me with 2 adorable female piggies who are now around 5 months old. They came with a Ferplast 80 which they are quickly getting to big for. I have spent hours looking at cages, comparing specs and am getting more confused as to what I can get by the day. Please can people give me some advice and answer some of my questions?
The hard thing is a pretty much know exactly what I want in a cage, I just cannot seem to find the exact thing. My Specifications are:
1. I would like a plastic base with the painted bars - pretty much the same as my current cage, it is a good quality feel and easy to clean
2. I want the large front opening cage on atleast one of the floors - once again like my current cage. I do not like the idea of top opening cages as I feel that coming in from the top is more frightening to the piggies.
3. I really want white (light coloured) bars - so many cages have black bars on either all of some component of the cage. I really want white bars as I feel black bars will take some of the light from the piggies, look silly in the room where they are located and make the piggies more difficult to see.
4. I also would like a multi-story cage, preferably 3 floors to give them as much play space as possible and to future proof incase our piggy family was to get larger in the future.
5. I think a 100cm cage would be more than enough for our piggies and look suitable in the area of the kitchen diner where they currently live. We could probably fit a larger cage in but this might impead in getting around the back of the table.
.... I know I haven't made it easy, I feel like I have narrowed it down to the Ferplast Tris and the Vital 3 tier, the only thing is I can only find these cages with a mix of black and white bars and this is a factor that is really important to me. I have email Ferplast directly to see if there are other colour options available but as yet, no reply.
Can someone tell me if Ferplast and Vital are the same brand as they look identical and the specs seem to be the same, however there can be a price difference?
One option I was thinking of was purchasing 2 x 2 tier Ferplast 100's which do have white bars and using the parts to make one 3 tier cage and one single floor cage which I could sell on. I am not sure if this would be structurally sound though and still my problem is I can only find white bar double cages at Pets at Home and they are £145 each making my little build project £290, which seems a bit mental when other triple cages are £160-190.
Sorry for rambling on, I just want to give Pixie and Sprite the best home I can
Any thoughts on the above would be greatly appreciated
Many Thanks
Robyn, Sprite & Pixie
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