cement mixing tub as cage base? other options?

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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:

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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 wonder if you could somehow attach the bottom 'door' panels to the roof of the cage, so they slide up and down? I don't know if I'm explaining that well or not! It would be kinda futuristic lol...

I would swear that Bo B Bunny has a base similar to that for either Bo or Tony.... I could be wrong. I don't know how she has the doors set up etc, if so....

I do like the idea of the big tub for the base though! Can you get them in bigger sizes maybe? Like get one really huge and you'll have room for the doors to open and maybe for the cage to be a bit wider?

We are actually thinking of something like this for Mouse and Chalk. Their pee leaks out the edge and behind the cage gets pretty grim. Steve has a friend whose dad runs a plastic moulding company who makes plastic stuff to spec. We were thinking of asking how much for a big tray like that...


 
I built custom bottoms for my cages. I made a box out of plywood and then cover it with linoleum. I covered the edges of the box with metal dry wall corner stuff.

You might be able to find some used plywood on Craigslist if you watch the free section. Then you just have to cut it, and glue it. I bought my lino at a end of the roll type place, it was only $10 for enough to both my cages.

I love my cages, and so do my bunnies.

I will post some pictures as soon as I can get my photo gallery to work.

--Dawn
 
You could overlap the panels of the doors by a couple of squares so that the bottom of the doors is "raised" to swing clear over the side of the tub. Does that make sense?
 
Thanks for the suggestions, guys!

I like that base a lot, slavetoabunny. I tried to visualize how to craft it and what supplies I will need...but it's difficult for me :p.

Jen....I am not sure if I could rig it up so the doors can slide up and down. I will have to see about that, too. I also wish there were larger sized mixing tubs, more for a 2x3 NIC panel...and I found a site, but it is rather expensive. I am still searching around. I will probably eventually do Marlin and Morgan's cage the same way because I am all about "matching", haha!
http://www.bassequipment.com/Kennels/Plastic+Pans/default.aspx

Dawn....I do remember seeing your cages in the photo thread and you do have a bit what I am looking for if I went with a wood base, too.

delusional...that makes tons of sense and is probably very do-able!
 
Buneary49 wrote:
I think bigger the better, if you can build a cage with big plastic pan or a mixing tub

it be great...
Yep, that is what this thread is about...a big plastic pan or mixing tub...being the bigger the better :huh.

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