Big enough cage?

[starrynight0621]

Hello!

I got this cage for my two chins.

http://www.hamstercagesource.com/ferret-cages/large-5-story-ferret-cage.html

I took out the wire shelves and put in poplar shelves, a chin spin, hammocks, etc. I know there isn't much I can do about it now, but I was wondering if this cage is big enough. It was all I could afford.

Thanks!

 

[tunes]

It should be fine. I think eventually you'll get tired of lifting it out of the base to clean it, but it isn't a bad cage otherwise, especially since you put in wood and hammocks.

 

[ChinnyMom]

it would be easy enough to build a wood and metal base for it. i worry that your chins may see the plastic base as something to chew and that isn't good. but as far as space goes, that's a decent size cage.

 

[Shooper]

Looks like a nice cage! Hope your chinny loves it! Perhaps you could just cover the plastic bottom with a piece of fleece and just sit the cage down on the fleece to hold it to the base???

 

[Chin_Parent]

I've got the smaller version of that cage for one of my chins and rather than lifting it out I just vacuum it up, so it never leaves the base. Also, it's hard to see from the picture, but the bars lay inside the base, and block a lot of the plastic from being chewed, if you use a fleece liner, they can't really get to the plastic at all.

 

[tunes]

A fleece liner isn't going to stop a chin from chewing plastic. If they are determined to chew, they will chew through the liner, then start on the plastic.

I had chins in plastic bottom cages for years. I used super pet cages in my bedroom when I first started. It was rare for a chin to attempt to chew it's way to freedom. What you could do, if you are really concerned about it, is order a 3 or 4 inch deep pan from Bass and sit the cage in that.

 

[Stackie]

It looks like the wire goes all the way down to the bottom of the base in that cage, anyway. It doesn't just sit on top. That makes it almost impossible for the chins to chew out of the side. If they somehow get their teeth on the flat surface of the bottom of the pan, then I guess they could. I had a cage that same style as that and never had any issues aside from a few teeth marks.

 

[starrynight0621]

Thank you for all your help!

They don't have access to the plastic. I left the bottom wire floor on the cage so their poop and pee fall underneath and they don't step on it. The wire on the floor is extremely close together, so they will definitely never get their feet caught in it. I am a little worried about bumblefoot, but they don't spend much time on the cage floor. The only things down there are their water bottle and chin spin.

Maybe I should take the wire out and put fleece down, but then they could get to the plastic more easily and their excrement would pile up faster.