Anyone have experience with Prevue cage?

[kellypug]

http://www.amazon.com/Prevue-Hendry...MYWQ/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1313426179&sr=8-4

From the photos, it looks quite similar in design with the Ferret Nation cages. The listed dimensions are a bit smaller than the FN cage.

My main concerns are that durability/sturdiness, safety, easy access to the inside, and fits through my doorway. It's quite hard to clean the cage I want replaced and I have to disassemble the whole thing in order to fit it through my doorway. It didn't occur to me when I had made that purchase that it wouldn't fit through the door while assembled. My bad.

 

[AZChins]

Despite the cage looking nice... The pan in the bottom is very shallow and flimsy and sometimes hard to get back into place after cleaning it. The cage itself is prone to rusting fairly quickly.

You would need to clean the pan at least twice a week, that's for sure. It's not a big deal, but the pan is too shallow. Also, the wire spacing on the bottom and on the middle shelf is much too large for a chinchilla and could result in feet slipping through and getting caught or even a broken leg.

Last year I modified one of these to be chinchilla safe for a customer and it took a lot of work! It would have been easier to just build a cage. It's just not a chinchilla cage.

 

[Peep_erz]

I don't have personal experience with one but I've heard only one side of the doors opens. This really cuts into the "easy access to the inside".

 

[AZChins]

It's not a terribly deep cage so it's not so hard to get into the cage with just one of the sides opening up. If it were a deeper cage, it may be an issue.

That's probably one of the only good things about that cage...it's fairly easy to reach to the back of the cage!