C'mon people I need ideas!

[i-love-nev]

Now come on people I know at least one of you has another amazing yet cheap idea! so here it is:


I need to make a colapsable (speling?) run, it need to be cheap, safe and easy to clean and put away in a small-ish place! The reason I need it cheap is because my parents are going to buy me some grids for christmas, well thats a long way away kinda anyway! well I just need a temporary run! only so my piggies can have a better floor time.

Hope to here from someone soon!

[JarBax]

Thrilled to hear you will be getting grids (eventually!) - I know it's been a long hard battle for you!

For a cheap, collapsable run - you could either use a suitable room (I know it's not collapsable - but that makes it even easier. Our bathroom is ideal, as there are no plug sockets, and the floor is wipeable - I just lay down several towels, and baracade the doorway with a large box.

If this isn't possible, yu could try using a large tarpaulin/shower curtain/thick plastic sheet, and have it 'suspended' from the furniture - tuck it into the couch cushions/armchair/clip it to the table etc - so that you have a piggy proof area. Again, you could use towels in the base.

Have you looked for a play pool? There's pics of folks using them in the galleries. If there's a car boot sale/jumble sale coming up - give it a bit of a scout - you may find a kiddies playpen or something similar which you could use also.

Best of luck - let us know what you end up using!

[i-love-nev]

Thanks! I am not alound to do floortime in our living room and the bathroom is a NO-NO because there is tiny places they could get stuck I cant find no way to block these of as they are so stupid! *looks around room for anything for a possible play pen, nothing shows up*, well I have a huge 10ft x about 5ft pool but it is a little big to blow up and deflate everyday, and a little too big to store away, I will keep a look out for a cheap play pool, but the only thing is that, I need to be able to attach it to my cage, so part of floor time is there new cage, I was thinking to make it a little easier to use bottle and make more room for hay and food during playtime I could use my old petstore cage but have it so its ouside the pen so that it is making it bigger, it is becoming hard to find a floor time space because of the cage going bigger he he he.

[Raisintosser]

What about squares of cardboard duct taped loosely together. Then you could fold it up afterwards.

I bought extra cubes grids when I got my cage and just zip tied them together so they can fold up and tuck under my cage stand.

[JarBax]

Raisin's cardboard idea is a good one - especially if you can make a 'lip' on the outside, and weigh them down with books or something. If you have wallspace, could you get away with just the two cardboard walls - from the cage to the wall?

[i-love-nev]

Thanks for that idea raisin's but I dont know where I could get some card board *grrrrrrrrrr* I will have to have a look around the house for some.

Has anybody suggested to target to move to england? he he ide rade the shelves of grids

[pigsforlife]

Try your local grocery store, they often use a mixture of cardboard boxes and those foam boxes to hold stock and usually give them away for free.

[i-love-nev]

Ha ha ha!

My grocery store probably would give me some if theyre life depended on it! I will get my dad to ask next time we go (I don't talk to strangers he he!).

[Raisintosser]

Liquor stores are good at giving out boxes for free, and they are usually really sturdy and thicker to hold heavy bottles.

[i-love-nev]

I don't know of any liqour stores near where I live though! argh! I want my grids so bad! I just found one of them small, colour full pens at Pet Supplies, Pet Food, and Pet Products on Sale Now at zooplus.co.uk, I know people say pigs can jump over these, but I figured I could put a top on it, so what do you think?