C&C New cage! - Guinea Pig Cages, Care, Store, Photos of Guinea Pigs and More Forum!

**1frankie7** · #1 09-26-09, 06:56 pm

I made a cage (well the grid part) and all I need now is coro,water bottle,food, hay And Pigs!!!!

**mitzi** · #2 09-26-09, 07:05 pm

cute cage! One thing I have learned with building these c & c cages they are constantly being changed. So don't think you are crazy

when you keep changing the cage. I changed mine about 5 times and I still have not adopting my boys yet!
It is fun!

**lissie** · #3 09-26-09, 07:49 pm

Wow! That was very quick. Nice cage.

**Kipsie** · #4 09-26-09, 07:54 pm

Oooh, I like your fleece. Is that an incubator under the table?

**1frankie7** · #5 09-26-09, 08:17 pm

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Originally Posted by Kipsie

Oooh, I like your fleece. Is that an incubator under the table?

Ha ha

no its my old cage its a zoozone but i am building a c&c cage because it is unsuitable.

**Tessa Bea** · #6 09-26-09, 09:52 pm

Nice! I would use a few more zip ties, the side against the wall looks a little rickety...

I had a zoo zone in the 90s.

NEVER. AGAIN.

**lissie** · #7 09-27-09, 12:27 am

Have you found Coroplast? I just found a list of distributors in US and Canada.
Coroplast Authorized Distributors

**Wodentoad** · #8 09-27-09, 07:31 am

You know, it looks like you might have just enough room.... FOR ONE MORE GRID (

muwahahahaha!!!!!

)

I'm only joking. It looks great! Your piggies will love it, I'm sure! Another couple of hideys would be good to ensure piggy peace, such as wood log arches or bent grids covered in fleece.

**1frankie7** · #9 09-27-09, 09:30 am

I would have made it a 2 x 5 but I dont have enough grids I need one more grid to make a 2 x 5.

**MissFormosa** · #10 09-27-09, 01:54 pm

Your cage looks great!
Where did you get that cute hidey hut?
Is there an online store in Canada I can order those from?

**1frankie7** · #11 09-27-09, 01:59 pm

are you from canada? Beleve it or not a freind gave it to me but I think its a living world hidey I've seen them in pet stores so they could not be that uncommon.

**YayPiggies** · #12 09-27-09, 02:36 pm

Oh I live in Canada, those hideys are at Zellers, Petsmart, PJ's Pets (I hate that store though) and some small pet food stores (such as Canadian Pet Connection). They're about $10 CAN.

**1frankie7** · #13 09-27-09, 03:06 pm

I have 2 more pictures of my cage.

the reason i wanted to know if you were in canada is because i do not know if they have them in the U.S

**MissFormosa** · #14 09-27-09, 03:12 pm

No, not in Canada. But I love how modern those houses look! It seems like the stuff in the US here (as far as hideys) looks so boring.

**1frankie7** · #15 09-27-09, 03:30 pm

Oh I will check for you if you like.

**1frankie7** · #16 09-27-09, 03:41 pm

**3piggymomma** · #17 09-27-09, 05:02 pm

Great cage! The photo may be deceiving, but the one side looks as if it is ever so slightly hanging off the table. If the pigs jump up on the side of the cage, that would concern me that they may fall or make the cage unsteady. I do think you did a great job, however. I spent hours and hours trying to perfect my girls' cage and it sure wasn't easy!

**1frankie7** · #18 09-27-09, 05:15 pm

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Originally Posted by 3piggymomma

Great cage! The photo may be deceiving, but the one side looks as if it is ever so slightly hanging off the table. If the pigs jump up on the side of the cage, that would concern me that they may fall or make the cage unsteady. I do think you did a great job, however. I spent hours and hours trying to perfect my girls' cage and it sure wasn't easy!

Yeah I noticed I am gonna have to try and fix that I still have around 70 cable ties so i think im good. Thank you.

**angiekay** · #19 09-27-09, 06:20 pm

I see that you have the top of the grids ziptied and the lower portions held together with the grid connectors? Any particular reason you chose that? I think it just makes the grids look "uneven" sorta from top to bottom. The cage looks great by the way, just a suggestion, the zip ties I think are the way to go without the connectors at all. And in the back it looks like the grids are uneven too, maybe because you ziptied them directly side to side, instead try like corner to corner, like a sideways ziptie kinda thing and it will hold it even and not slip up and down, hope that's not confusing. Hard to explain. I could shoot you a photo of a close-up of the way my hubby did ours in case you/like me couldn't understand that description!

Love the fleece also, I've been looking for some pawprint fleece and can't find it anywhere!!! Lucky pigs, lucky pigs!!!

**1frankie7** · #20 09-28-09, 08:11 am

yeah I dont have enough of it though so I need to get 3 more blankets and a few more towels.

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