I have been getting so incredibly frustrated with my local Craigslist pet section, where multiple people are selling hamster cages and calling them guinea pig cages. The photos on those cage boxes show a piggie that I doubt is even weaned, it's so small!
I recently made a post in my local CL pet section with a photo of a 2x3 C&C cage, stating the dimensions and how that size was the minimum acceptable for just one piggy, and linked to this site, and offered to help anyone who had questions on how to build a C&C cage. My email was flooded in minutes with people asking where to purchase coroplast, and how they had been wanting to build a C&C cage for a long time but just didn't know where to get the supplies. Most replied after I answered them to say how surprised they were at how little the supplies cost. I feel like I accomplished something good without being too soap boxish My biggest fear is that some uneducated person will do a search on CL for a guinea pig cage, come across a hamster cage pretending to be something it's not and doom their poor pig to a life of sitting in its own waste, barely able to turn around, thinking that is not only acceptable but normal! ::shudder::
I recently made a post in my local CL pet section with a photo of a 2x3 C&C cage, stating the dimensions and how that size was the minimum acceptable for just one piggy, and linked to this site, and offered to help anyone who had questions on how to build a C&C cage. My email was flooded in minutes with people asking where to purchase coroplast, and how they had been wanting to build a C&C cage for a long time but just didn't know where to get the supplies. Most replied after I answered them to say how surprised they were at how little the supplies cost. I feel like I accomplished something good without being too soap boxish My biggest fear is that some uneducated person will do a search on CL for a guinea pig cage, come across a hamster cage pretending to be something it's not and doom their poor pig to a life of sitting in its own waste, barely able to turn around, thinking that is not only acceptable but normal! ::shudder::