Donna3939
Junior Guinea Pig
I've had my piggies 1 week today and I've scratched myself to bits trying to crawl under the hayloft to clean the corners and got a bit fed up so today the piggies have got a new home!
I've went from the 3 storey (5x4 ground floor with 5x2 hayloft and separate 5x2 cage on the top) to 2 separate single-floor cages.
I found it too much hassle getting underneath the hayloft and was spending more time cleaning out the piggies than I was giving them a cuddle, and me thinks that isn't right!
For tonight, Dynamite and Echo are in a temporary 120x70cm cage while I demolished their old one and did the same to the big cage. It took me 5 HOURS! I still haven't rebuild D&E's cage but will be doing that tomorrow but the rest of the guys are over the moon in their new setup.
Because there's no upper level, they can see around so much easier and I feel happier knowing it'll be easier to clean and also down to stability of the cage (the cat sat on it the other day and part of the roof come away, luckily it was still connected to the body of the cage so it didn't come crashing down on the piggies) I've now got one big lid which is made rigid and sturdy with the bits of timber that were used as upper level support. In all that time the piggies free-ranged around the kitchen. It looked like a poo factory when I put them back!
I'm gonna wipe all the photos from the digi camera tomorrow sometime and get some good pics on here (my new phone has a naff camera, not used to it when my old phone had 8 megapixel!). Mark my words, there WILL be pics on here sometime tomorrow! x
I've went from the 3 storey (5x4 ground floor with 5x2 hayloft and separate 5x2 cage on the top) to 2 separate single-floor cages.
I found it too much hassle getting underneath the hayloft and was spending more time cleaning out the piggies than I was giving them a cuddle, and me thinks that isn't right!
For tonight, Dynamite and Echo are in a temporary 120x70cm cage while I demolished their old one and did the same to the big cage. It took me 5 HOURS! I still haven't rebuild D&E's cage but will be doing that tomorrow but the rest of the guys are over the moon in their new setup.
Because there's no upper level, they can see around so much easier and I feel happier knowing it'll be easier to clean and also down to stability of the cage (the cat sat on it the other day and part of the roof come away, luckily it was still connected to the body of the cage so it didn't come crashing down on the piggies) I've now got one big lid which is made rigid and sturdy with the bits of timber that were used as upper level support. In all that time the piggies free-ranged around the kitchen. It looked like a poo factory when I put them back!
I'm gonna wipe all the photos from the digi camera tomorrow sometime and get some good pics on here (my new phone has a naff camera, not used to it when my old phone had 8 megapixel!). Mark my words, there WILL be pics on here sometime tomorrow! x
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