Spamming my own thread with more posts, haha.
Seriously though, even before I got Bandit, I've been excited about making an NIC cage for whenever I next got a rabbit. So I did tonnes of research, and saved countless images of cages and designs so that I could one day create my own. But to me they all seemed to lack one thing, despite how long they were, the cages never utilised their full length as there was always a shelf in the way. So to remedy this, last year sometime I designed a cage with the shelf to the back, so that the main cage area could be used in full length.
Exact specifications of the height of that top shelf is yet to be determined, it would probably have to sit a little lower, but on both levels, there is the availability of full-length hopping, which I think is important. The red dot is supposed to be a support dowel (though it may have to run lengthways instead), the green square around the front four panels is a door, and I would also place a door on the roof. The space under the shelf might be a good spot for a little hidey-home. A single grid shelf would be ideal, but I read that it's preferential for rabbits to have a little more room when hopping down. Which is another reason I feel the shelf along the back is better, because the rabbit can jump down to the length, as opposed to when you see a two grid wide shelf against the side and there's still only one grid space to hop down onto it (if that makes sense).
In any case, I've probably been over-thinking it (I've had a lot of time to). But I've seen so many cage designs where I've wondered "why on earth did they build it like that" So I figured other people's cages, could be my trial and error and I would magically end up with the perfect cage, lol.
Anyway, here it is
Ignore the square off to the side, it was a template thing. Also in my dream world, it would probably be five grids long, but whether or not I end up with that much space for a cage is another matter
