Nadeshda
Member
Hi.
About 3 years ago, my bf and I got two chinnies. We are in Europe (Portugal) and we looked around for cages, but the only ones we found were too small and outrageously expensive (like, 100€ for a 2feetx2feetx2feet cage). So, we decided to build our own from pine and melamine, following the advice of many people from this forum. The thing is, the cage is huge and the girls love it, but it's a pain to clean. Since the part of the structure itself is wood, we can't just hose it down to clean it, even if we removed the shelves. Cleaning it ends up being very time consuming because we have to wait until the wood in the structure is fully dry before putting the chins back in, and specially in the Winter, it's a pain. There are also some gaps between the wood and melamine in the structure, and I think some bugs and spiders might have gotten in there. It is also ridiculously heavy.
So, we thought it would be a good ideia to get a wire cage, like the ones from QualityCages. But shipping a cage from the US would probably be too expensive (and, to be honest, I don't even know if they would ship), so I was wondering if anyone here knows of any European online store where we could get a nice cage from. Based in the UK, Germany, Spain, it doesn't matter, as long as they'd be willing to ship to other EU countries.
We have also thought of getting one of those huge bird cages, but we find them too flimsy and the mesh too wobbly to be holding the wooden shelves and two franctic chinchillas jumping on them.
Thanks in advance
Nádia
About 3 years ago, my bf and I got two chinnies. We are in Europe (Portugal) and we looked around for cages, but the only ones we found were too small and outrageously expensive (like, 100€ for a 2feetx2feetx2feet cage). So, we decided to build our own from pine and melamine, following the advice of many people from this forum. The thing is, the cage is huge and the girls love it, but it's a pain to clean. Since the part of the structure itself is wood, we can't just hose it down to clean it, even if we removed the shelves. Cleaning it ends up being very time consuming because we have to wait until the wood in the structure is fully dry before putting the chins back in, and specially in the Winter, it's a pain. There are also some gaps between the wood and melamine in the structure, and I think some bugs and spiders might have gotten in there. It is also ridiculously heavy.
So, we thought it would be a good ideia to get a wire cage, like the ones from QualityCages. But shipping a cage from the US would probably be too expensive (and, to be honest, I don't even know if they would ship), so I was wondering if anyone here knows of any European online store where we could get a nice cage from. Based in the UK, Germany, Spain, it doesn't matter, as long as they'd be willing to ship to other EU countries.
We have also thought of getting one of those huge bird cages, but we find them too flimsy and the mesh too wobbly to be holding the wooden shelves and two franctic chinchillas jumping on them.
Thanks in advance
Nádia
