Lofts/Upper Levels - What to do? What to do?

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Lisajazz said:
YAY You're done!

It looks soooooo good. You have done a brilliant job and they look so happy. How's everyone managing the ramps?
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They are doing ok actually. I put the one into Sasha/Mabelle/Penelopes cage earlier, with the inco pads but without fleece to see how they got on and they were ok (Sasha won in the ramp sweepstakes!). Then I cleaned Audrey/Seymour/Mr Mushniks cage and put the new set up in and I put them on the loft bit and they were munching down on the hay and dry food. Paul picked them up and put them further down the ramp one by one and they rang down the rest to ground level. I thought they wouldn't 'get' then ramps but Seymour twigged it fairly quickly. The others were a little slower but they are all going up and down now :)

I put the veggies up on the loft for dinner and thought the little pigs would take ages to figure it out, but they didn't take long at all - maybe only 5 mins. Sasha kept climbing up near the side door like normal and I sort of had to 'chase' her up the ramp otherwise she would have missed out on the veggies.

Currently, Sasha and Mabelle are conked out upstairs and the little piggies are running about :(|) So glad I've finally done it, one less thing to worry about now!
 
Wow - that looks great x)

I opened up new levels on my cage yesterday and its amazing how quickly they get used to the extra space. The babies loved popcorning away in the open space :))
 
azura_maemi said:
They are doing ok actually. I put the one into Sasha/Mabelle/Penelopes cage earlier, with the inco pads but without fleece to see how they got on and they were ok (Sasha won in the ramp sweepstakes!). Then I cleaned Audrey/Seymour/Mr Mushniks cage and put the new set up in and I put them on the loft bit and they were munching down on the hay and dry food. Paul picked them up and put them further down the ramp one by one and they rang down the rest to ground level. I thought they wouldn't 'get' then ramps but Seymour twigged it fairly quickly. The others were a little slower but they are all going up and down now :)

I put the veggies up on the loft for dinner and thought the little pigs would take ages to figure it out, but they didn't take long at all - maybe only 5 mins. Sasha kept climbing up near the side door like normal and I sort of had to 'chase' her up the ramp otherwise she would have missed out on the veggies.

Currently, Sasha and Mabelle are conked out upstairs and the little piggies are running about :(|) So glad I've finally done it, one less thing to worry about now!
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hey you that looks brill how did you go about bending the c&c grids for the ramps? are they flat square edged bends ie: sides straight up or is it a you bend like a peice of gutting kind of shape? (sorry couldn't put the letter 'you' it wouldnt let me for some reason its not that i cant spell it replaced it with a * presumably as text speak is not allowed lol) i bet they are loving the extra room! x)
ps also forgot to ask how did you secure their vet bed to the ramp? thanks
 
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guineawig said:
hey you that looks brill how did you go about bending the c&c grids for the ramps? are they flat square edged bends ie: sides straight up or is it a you bend like a peice of gutting kind of shape? (sorry couldn't put the letter 'you' it wouldnt let me for some reason its not that i cant spell it replaced it with a * presumably as text speak is not allowed lol) i bet they are loving the extra room! x)
ps also forgot to ask how did you secure their vet bed to the ramp? thanks
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Hi :)

They LOVE the lofts! They are all always up there! Zipping up and down the ramps - so glad they've all taken to them!

I bent the mesh panels, although on reflection, the grid ones may have been easier! They were a bit of a pain to bend, We snapped a couple of them so had to start over :{ We found it easier to hold the panel over the edge of a table (we have one of those cheap collapsable tray table things - I wouldn't do it on a much loved table as it did leave marks!) I held it whilst my bf bent it down a little to get it started. Then we put it on the floor with a bit of wood over it and I stood on the wood whilst my bf bent it further (did that make ANY sense!?!? LOL!)

They are square bends rather than curves like guttering, on the mesh grids that we had, there were lined ridge bits, so I bent 1 ridge in on one side, and 2 ridges in on the other, so one side had a higher side (this is the side with the drop, the other side of the ramp is against the edge of the cage).

I have used carpet to begin with on the ramp as didn't want to go to P@H and spend a fortune when I should only be going in for vetbed rolleyes I cut the strip about 4 inches longer than the ramp, then at the bottom of the ramp I've tied with a large cable tie, and the top isn't secured, but is underneath the correx loft tray so isn't going anywhere! :) Hope that all made sense inbreeding
 
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