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Post by Die Fledermaus on Apr 8, 2009 13:55:49 GMT -4
Found this on the rmca forum. It was a ferret cage remade for rats. It must be huge - look how small the rats are! Great toys and stuff inside.   |
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Post by adoptaratcanada on Apr 8, 2009 14:50:26 GMT -4
LOL I like that bum hanging out of the orange nest! ;D This is the Ferret Nation. In that other thread about habitats there was a version on one of the links. Again my issue is the vertical bars, and (my own concern) those doors open such a large area with no lip to help keep the rats from dropping out. Midwest, the company that makes them, now have a new model called Critter Nation geared to rats. It's got horizontal bars, so that they can climb, and the bar spacing is better. www.midwesthomes4pets.com/category/default.aspx?subcat=4&submenu=1&catid=27 |
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Post by Die Fledermaus on Apr 8, 2009 18:59:52 GMT -4
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Post by Die Fledermaus on Apr 8, 2009 19:03:21 GMT -4
From the rmca board:
>> It's 36 x 25 x 62.5 inches and can fit 12 rats. In the bowls at the time was their homemade mix with cereals, pastas, nuts, etc. with some Regal Rat on top. As for the stuff in the cage, I made some of the hammocks and I made the hanging toys. There's also one of the running balls in there on the top level that they sleep in, and then there's their pumpkin that I found at a thrift store that they have gutted. Haha
Yes, mine are about 98% litter box trained. It was actually really easy doing it too, all I did was put dirty litter in litter boxes where they usually go to the bathroom and then put extra poops outside in the litter box. They got the hang of it quickly. <<
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Post by adoptaratcanada on Apr 8, 2009 19:03:36 GMT -4
I eyeballed that very cage when I got my first rats! I ended up with a different bird cage, and made the shelves from plexi-glass which I bought at the building supply place. I put sticky-backed paper (MacTac? -- like shelf lining) on the underside so that they weren't transparent. |
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Post by Die Fledermaus on Apr 8, 2009 19:11:42 GMT -4
You hooked them to the bars how??
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See the response from the rmca board above, if you missed it, please.
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Post by adoptaratcanada on Apr 8, 2009 20:13:21 GMT -4
You hooked them to the bars how?? - - - - - - See the response from the rmca board above, if you missed it, please. Since the upper plexiglass shelves were to be clipped (bulldog clips) and *could* conceivably come loose, I didn't want it to be able to drop on and injure a rat. Therefore, I used relatively thin plexiglass, and bought a couple of yardsticks which I cut into to suitable sizes and used for support under the shelves. The shelves/sticks were long enough to *just* rest on the bars of opposite cage sides. The yardsticks were quite thin, so I was able to clip both the shelf, the stick, and the bar with the clip. The bigger the clip, the more overhang you can allow for in the cut of the shelves, which I'd recommend to avoid anything coming loose. On some of the shelves I also lay down a cut-to-size piece of fleece, which got clipped as well. As for littertraining, I find rats are pretty good at it. I didn't pursue it much once I switched to primarily fleece bedding because it was easy to grab the poops. The rat I may adopt is quite well-trained. |
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Post by Die Fledermaus on Apr 8, 2009 20:50:18 GMT -4
Oh. . . the old yardstick trick, eh!  I have a lot to remember. |
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