Well, Tucker is getting frustrated with his cage…as am I! I hate locking him in there and I hate that for him to get on his shelf he has to be in his cage and blocked by bars He cannot be free range atleast not all the time, because 1..he is destructive to carpet and 2 my big dog and him don’t get along.
So, I want to switch to a pen. The thing is he LOVES hopping and he loves his shelf. Any ideas on how I can combine maybe a partial cage with a pen? Like an open cage set up? That he can’t jump over..he’s an adventurer that’s for sure! And I’d also love to have a partial cage so that I could somehow still put a guinea pig cage on top. I would still love to rescue those two piggies but I want to make sure that it’s going to work out first as I don’t have another area in the house to put a big cage. So, it either needs to work in to my tucker area or it’s gonna be a no go
I have enough space to make it about let’s see…the cage part right now is 3 cubes by 3 cubes and 2 cubes deep. But I’d like it to be 2 cubes deep by 4 cubes long and then the “pen” part have that be 3 more cubes out from the two and then go over the 4. I’d like the guinea pigs to be on “level 3” so that they were at a good height for me to clean them
Another issue is that Tucker pushes his pen fence. He pushes it til it forms like a v and then he nips at the carpet. So I need a way to make it stay square but still be able to come apart for his out times because he does NOT like to be picked up so I usually just open his fence and let him run and then herd him back in when play time is over
Any ideas? On any of it? LOL I can picture what I want in my head but then actually making that is so much harder!!
ETA: Ok this is what I am looking to do basically.. http://www.3bunnies.org/buns/oliver1/oliver_nic_closed_420.jpg
However if there is not a bottom to the pen, any ideas on how to get it to retain a squared shape? If it is not something that is secured into that shape he moves it around until it’s away from the protected flooring and onto the carpet that he will then eat. And if I enlarge his pen as much as I want to that means that he would have ALOT of space to move that and I can’t cover that much of the floor with the linoleum.
I think I’ve got a plan for the other, I think if I reinforce the cage/shelf itself with dowels it’d be more secure and then I could put the guinea pig cage on top of that as a third level of NIC condos. This is of course if the piggies don’t find another home and we end up taking them in, first and foremost though I’d like Tucker to have an area that is more open for him.