sabrinaxceleste
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Howdy all. I needed some input on what to do about my guinea pig cage location... you see, I moved about a year ago. I was unable to take anything with me - to the point I put my guinea pigs in a box and left.
For a few months, I stayed with friends, who provided me with a plastic tub container with large holes poked in the lid to keep them in in the hallway. So when I moved in with my boyfriend's family a few months later, his mom bought a store bought cage. No bigger, but better aired. They've been in this little thing for a year, and due to of lack of room (I share a room with my boyfriend) I've never been able to give them a big cage again.
Before I moved, they did have a grid/coroplast cage more than big enough for them.
On top of that, I haven't been able to give them much free time, because my boyfriend has a cat who wants to eat them, and our room doesn't have a door or any way to keep her out.
So onto my question.
I have two options in regards to their cage.
I've worked out that I can build them a nice bigger grid cage again, but to do that, the cage would need to be placed in a little 'nook' in our room. (I'll see if I can get a picture to show what I mean about this) However, there's not really any lightning over there. It's in between the staircase and the closet, a little square area underneath a 'desk.'
(Plus, I'd get the top of my dresser back)
Or they can stay in this tiny little store cage (that barely fits them and their pigloo and food bowl...) which sits atop my dresser, next to a window, and right beneath a lamp. A lamp that actually gets extremely hot and I wonder if that's bad for them too.
There's no where else in the room the cage can go. I just don't know which would be better. Lots of light in a small cage, or lack of light in a big cage?
I'm leaning towards the latter, but I'm still worried about light...
For a few months, I stayed with friends, who provided me with a plastic tub container with large holes poked in the lid to keep them in in the hallway. So when I moved in with my boyfriend's family a few months later, his mom bought a store bought cage. No bigger, but better aired. They've been in this little thing for a year, and due to of lack of room (I share a room with my boyfriend) I've never been able to give them a big cage again.
Before I moved, they did have a grid/coroplast cage more than big enough for them.
On top of that, I haven't been able to give them much free time, because my boyfriend has a cat who wants to eat them, and our room doesn't have a door or any way to keep her out.
So onto my question.
I have two options in regards to their cage.
I've worked out that I can build them a nice bigger grid cage again, but to do that, the cage would need to be placed in a little 'nook' in our room. (I'll see if I can get a picture to show what I mean about this) However, there's not really any lightning over there. It's in between the staircase and the closet, a little square area underneath a 'desk.'
(Plus, I'd get the top of my dresser back)
Or they can stay in this tiny little store cage (that barely fits them and their pigloo and food bowl...) which sits atop my dresser, next to a window, and right beneath a lamp. A lamp that actually gets extremely hot and I wonder if that's bad for them too.
There's no where else in the room the cage can go. I just don't know which would be better. Lots of light in a small cage, or lack of light in a big cage?
I'm leaning towards the latter, but I'm still worried about light...
