fred and shadow's set up. my dad built a fence like thing. the door is spring loaded and opens in. they also have a cage in there, but rarely go in it. they ususally get free run of the basement when we get home.
Here's the cage i have right now. I have the two guinea pigs on top (Tuffy & Jasmine) and my bunny (Charlie) on the bottom. It works really good for me to have the opening doors on the bottom to let Charlie out when i'm home but if he needs/wants to go back in he's free to do so.
Wyatt and Elvis have the same cage side by side. We needed to make something that is easier to maintain. Truth is someone is always out so they don't need as much room. The idea is to make a pen that someone can be out in when we are not home. Than cage that one when we get home and someone else comes out.
Here are the new cages I built yesterday . I decided to make pens instead of cages because it allows me to clean easier, feed & water easier, grab a bunny in case of emergency, and I can sit inside the pen with the bunny. This is working well for us right now (we'll see how it goes!) because sometimes my bunnies don't get to get out of their cages a whole lot because of work. These pens are 3x4.
I am waiting to make Brody a pen until Benson goes to his new home in a few weeks....I ran out of space, lol!
Morgan is in the pen on the right and Marlin is in the pen on the left...
Benson is on top and Brody is on the bottom (again, Brody is getting a pen once Benson goes to his new home)...
Shot from the doorway (that cage is my rat cage)...
Morgan's cage....
Marlin's cage...
Morgan and Marlin's....
ETA: the wires you see by Marlin's cage are pinned back to the wall. He can't reach them .
This is Winston and Charlie's new set up, we're building a second level across half and getting rid of some of the boxes. , half of the top of the cage is covered for the kittens cause they love to sit up top.
Yofi and Anna's room. (Dehumidifier is necess. as it gets very humid.) Cage is open 24/7, so they get the run of the room when I'm not home, and run of the main parts of the house when I am.
Here's Toby's cage & condo. He is shut in the cage at night and when he's naughty. The thing to the right is his condo. There is a little footstool in front of the cage. That USED to be mine
Toby's cage - a dog exercise pen backed onto a wall in our garage so it creates more space, and joined onto a large opaque plastic tub (with boxes so he can't hop on top of it and escape) which creates a little private area.
The cardboard 'wall' around his litter pan is because he used to back up too much and end up peeing over the edge sometimes. With the wall there it's no longer a problem.
Obviously Toby is physically capable of jumping out, but I think because he is so short sighted (REW), he doesn't. I don't think he can see what's outside well enough. Even hopping down from the couch he has to 'scan' the floor for a while before he's willing to do it.