undergunfire
Retired Moderator
I have to do something about Brody's cage. Right now he has 2x3 NIC cage with a peg board covered with stick on lino tiles as his base. He sometimes pees outside of his litter box at the edge of his cage...and his pee gets onto the new carpet in our new house (that we do not own). He also has a cecal poo issue (ugh, he doesn't eat it..just smooshes it!) and the wet cecal poo gets kicked out onto the carpet.
I need a cage with a base, but do not want to spend the money or have the lack of space of/on a pet store cage...that is just not an option. Choroplast is $27 for an 8' x 4' sheet...pretty expensive, plus we have to rent the tool to fold the choroplast AND we have to use duct tape to keep the sides together..by doing that the edges aren't fully sealed.
So, I was looking through the NIC cage thread and saw Erika's (I think that her name) cage for Dunkin:
Now, that is an option for me because I can always build up. Now...what about the doors....how do I get Brody out when he will not let me pick him up? I want to put more shelves in and build higher...but the cage in the picture won't allow for that because of the doors being where the shelves would connect. I would still want double doors, too.
Is there any other way of making a cage base for Brody that isn't expensive?
I thought of somehow getting material to build a base off the ground of wood with sides on it, then putting sitck on tiles down, and sealing the edges around the sides afterwards with sealent stuff. I just don't know how much this would cost. If I did it for Brody...I'd want to do it for the others, too. I'd probably make it 1 foot off the ground.
I need a cage with a base, but do not want to spend the money or have the lack of space of/on a pet store cage...that is just not an option. Choroplast is $27 for an 8' x 4' sheet...pretty expensive, plus we have to rent the tool to fold the choroplast AND we have to use duct tape to keep the sides together..by doing that the edges aren't fully sealed.
So, I was looking through the NIC cage thread and saw Erika's (I think that her name) cage for Dunkin:
Now, that is an option for me because I can always build up. Now...what about the doors....how do I get Brody out when he will not let me pick him up? I want to put more shelves in and build higher...but the cage in the picture won't allow for that because of the doors being where the shelves would connect. I would still want double doors, too.
Is there any other way of making a cage base for Brody that isn't expensive?
I thought of somehow getting material to build a base off the ground of wood with sides on it, then putting sitck on tiles down, and sealing the edges around the sides afterwards with sealent stuff. I just don't know how much this would cost. If I did it for Brody...I'd want to do it for the others, too. I'd probably make it 1 foot off the ground.