Kathlaaron.......it's people like you who keep deterring me from finishing Chester's new cage!
I see all these great designs and then decide I should revise mine.
Outstanding creative piece of work! But, it must take forever to clean it with the supports and the unusual configuration? Yes, I saw you place the girls in the cage in the video, but were they allowed to stay there? Or did you decide that it was too pretty to permit them to soil it? :mischievo
I'm considering bunk beds as well......are yours a bent grid or a half grid?
What lucky girls!
lol Sorry about that ! Heeheee..Trust me, if I was younger, or in better health, I would be tempted to keep making "alterations" to my girls cage, too ! I would also be making fun buildings and such out of "safe" untreated, wood !
I have made them "cardboard houses with windows, doors, curtains, bed pillows which they loved (fought over if I didn't remember to make "two new special" items) and enjoyed, before, but would LOVE to get
much more creative than that... and make more permanent multi-purpose toys/houses ect ! Someday...
Consequences. Life. I should have taken much better care of myself, than I did, and now..my body has fallen apart. Funny, you know ? About 7 or 8 years ago I found some great used bedroom furniture pieces for my teenage son, and
totally re-finished a dresser, an adult office desk & chair, and a headboard, for him during a very hot and humid weekend during the summer......in our garage. For the first time. I could
never do something like that now.
On your second point...cleaning. Well, I haven't cleaned their cage yet, plan to on Sunday or Monday, so I shall let you know if the cleaning is more difficult or laborious, but I don't think it will be. On the far end where their barn is, I use puppy pads and carefresh underneath piles of hay and we changed that out tonight very easily !
The middle part where the supports are, well they can easily be taken off, for there is two bent grids supporting the long, forest tunnel bridge tied to the cage with a lot of strong cable ties. The poles ( made out of coroplast) are just added support for the bridge and are a firm tight fit underneath. The two ramps on either side are also made with coroplast with wires going up through the holes in the coro to connect "all three pieces" of the ramp together, and be able to bend and form it, to make the sides strong and firm. I didn't have binder edging so I used sticky back white felt to cover the sides of the ramps to prevent curious chewing. ( Plan to order some from the guinea pig zone ) My girls are "chewers".
I just zip tied two whole grids, 5 3/4 in. off the ground ( or 4th grid square bottom up) to make like two horizontal "cubes". I made 2 coroplast "cubes" to put on top of the grids. ( Makes for easy clean-up & gives indiv. piggie queen privacylol) I used the correct width and length of coropast ( like a strip) around the bottom too, so I wouldn't have to clean under there, given piggies love dark places to hide out ! Then I used a cuddly blanket with one layer of u-haul blanket for each bottom, with a turtle or monkey mini pet pillow on top of that, for their "bed" !
Also, the ramps I just vacuum up ! ( I used a heavy door mat that I cut and velcroed to the bottom, and vinyl/duct taped the creases to keep it waterproof).
thanks guys....
