Aussiesue
Junior Guinea Pig
We're very excited in our house (the humans and the guinea pigs.) Cinnamon, Mitty and Blossom just moved into their new 2 x 5 C and C cage.
Here's the cage we initially got. (We'll keep it in the garage in case it is needed for quarantine or if they need to go to a relative at some stage if we go on holiday.)
And here's their new C and C. (Well - version one!)
We put a kitchen area in down one end with newspaper and wood shavings and we give them their food down there.
At the other end we put 2 grids at the top and hung some fleece curtains made from scraps. I've got bricks in the corners there to hold the fleece down and we covered those with puppy pads and spare fleece and they seem to like resting on those.
We only had one pack of grids come so far so it is on the floor for now. Tried putting it on a table but it was a little too precarious so we'll wait til mid Jan when the next big batch of grids come and plan to add a base to it and a stand. We were going to add a loft and ramp but I'm thinking we might leave it simple for now for easy cleaning.
Loving the fleece so far. Have Huggies bed mats underneath then the fleece. Got a new hand vac and it was so easy to just vac up the poops off the fleece. They're doing most of those in the kitchen actually so that's handy.
Anyway - thanks for all the inspiration and helpful tips here that inspired our new cage.
Here's the cage we initially got. (We'll keep it in the garage in case it is needed for quarantine or if they need to go to a relative at some stage if we go on holiday.)
And here's their new C and C. (Well - version one!)
We put a kitchen area in down one end with newspaper and wood shavings and we give them their food down there.
At the other end we put 2 grids at the top and hung some fleece curtains made from scraps. I've got bricks in the corners there to hold the fleece down and we covered those with puppy pads and spare fleece and they seem to like resting on those.
We only had one pack of grids come so far so it is on the floor for now. Tried putting it on a table but it was a little too precarious so we'll wait til mid Jan when the next big batch of grids come and plan to add a base to it and a stand. We were going to add a loft and ramp but I'm thinking we might leave it simple for now for easy cleaning.
Loving the fleece so far. Have Huggies bed mats underneath then the fleece. Got a new hand vac and it was so easy to just vac up the poops off the fleece. They're doing most of those in the kitchen actually so that's handy.
Anyway - thanks for all the inspiration and helpful tips here that inspired our new cage.
