Laeci
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Nyx has recently learned to escape from her pen. We previously had a playpen around her 'baby cage' (like this only bigger), but apparently she's been training for hurdles when we weren't noticing, because she can now hop over the fence in a single jump. It's really quite amazing, considering she's only 3 lbs and can jump 3 ft!
Because no one's around to watch her when my husband and I are at school or work, we had to do something... I felt guilty leaving Nyx locked in her 'baby cage' even while we were at the store shopping for cage supplies.
Here's her "let me out mommy!!" face:
So, we took the pen into the living room...
... took off four of the panels and made them into a roof (with lots of zip ties.)
We also bought one box of wire racks from Target to make a shelf, and to stabilize the side of the cage since it was kinda floppy.
You can't really see because of all the overlapping bars, but Nyx is inside the box on her cold tile. =) (We don't have air conditioning... I wish *I* had a cold tile too!)
Oh, and I need to look for something to put on top of the shelf... her 'bed' is pretty thin and probably isn't all that comfy with bars under it. Kinda like sleeping on a fold-out couch bed, hm? =P
...but, she goes up there anyway.
And how handy to use remaining cubes for bunny storage. Yay new cage! No more waking up to bunny poop in the bathtub and the covers chewed off the books on the bottom shelf... and a bunny chewing in the laundry basket. =)
That is, until she figures out how to escape this one...
Because no one's around to watch her when my husband and I are at school or work, we had to do something... I felt guilty leaving Nyx locked in her 'baby cage' even while we were at the store shopping for cage supplies.
Here's her "let me out mommy!!" face:
So, we took the pen into the living room...
... took off four of the panels and made them into a roof (with lots of zip ties.)
We also bought one box of wire racks from Target to make a shelf, and to stabilize the side of the cage since it was kinda floppy.
You can't really see because of all the overlapping bars, but Nyx is inside the box on her cold tile. =) (We don't have air conditioning... I wish *I* had a cold tile too!)
Oh, and I need to look for something to put on top of the shelf... her 'bed' is pretty thin and probably isn't all that comfy with bars under it. Kinda like sleeping on a fold-out couch bed, hm? =P
...but, she goes up there anyway.
And how handy to use remaining cubes for bunny storage. Yay new cage! No more waking up to bunny poop in the bathtub and the covers chewed off the books on the bottom shelf... and a bunny chewing in the laundry basket. =)
That is, until she figures out how to escape this one...
April
