Chewing Preventing Coroplast Chewing

[CathiiPiggie]

Binder Edging and Chewing

I can't buy binder edging from the C&C cages store, but I can't seem to find much under 'binder edging' here in the UK. Does it go by a different name or can anyone recommend where to find some?

 

[CathiiPiggie]

Re: Binder Edging and Chewing

Can anybody help? BUMP

 

[CathiiPiggie]

Okay so I am going to get started on making the coroplast base that I finally have got round to getting for their cage, but the problem is my guinea pigs are always chewing anything they can get their teeth into - plastic, wood (not the grids on their cage or the fleece though...) so I am worried about them chewing on the correx. I can't find any binder edging so what do you suggest I do?

 

[HannibalLecter]

Re: Binder Edging and Chewing

Do you have places where you purchase posters, office supplies & such in the UK? I think they're also called binder/slide bars.
I used them to hang & keep my posters straight when I was a kid.

 

[foggycreekcavy]

Do you have an Office Max there? That's where I got mine--
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They have black ones, too.

Or, you might want to make the fleece come up over the edge and use clips to keep it in place.

 

[bree1818]

I don't know if this helps, but I used linoleum underneath, and then on the sides and hooked the fleece up and over it and clipped it to the grids.

 

[RubyRain]

Try amazon UK too. I know they have them at amazon US.

Have they chewed the coro before? Because I have a major chewer too and he chewed everything, including the coro. But if they have not chewed it yet and you can make the sides a bit higher (maybe 8 inches?) so they can't reach it, maybe they won't start the bad habit.

Even though my pig was a big chewer, he was also a lone pig and now that he has buddies, he hasn't chewed the coro at all, though he still chews his willow ball and TP tubes.
He's also a burrower and I realized when he chewed the coro he was trying to burrow under the fleece. I changed how I did my fleece and gave him a small blanket to burrow under and I think that also helped the chewing.
He's only been in his new cage a week but no coro chewing at all so far (knock on wood).

 

[CathiiPiggie]

Thank you for the help! One of my fleeces is not large enough to tuck over the sides so that's why I asked. I have finally found some binder edging, known as 'Spine Bars' or 'Spine Binders' at Staples (a bit like OfficeMax I guess) and on eBay.