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Old 06-01-2012, 06:00 PM
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Re: Bought my piggys a c&c cage

Just hung one of my rat hammocks at the bottom end as I type of cover like u said with the towel. They can't climb into it as it's too high it just makes them feel more secure I suppose.
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Re: Bought my piggys a c&c cage

Your cage is looking great!

I loved my c+c, best invention ever imo, if I ever have piggies again (sadly unlikely as I became horribly allergic to hay) I wouldn't use anything else.

Just wanted to say about the towels - don't know if you've bedded like this before but you might want to get a layer of fleece to go over the towels. Pee goes straight through the fleece (which dries very quickly) and is absorbed by the bottom layer - towels tend to stay wet for ages so the pigs end up sitting in pee patches.

I started with a thick layer of towels under fleece, then swapped the towels for a mattress topper - worked much better for me. (I gave up using newspaper almost immediately).

(Sorry if I'm preaching to the choir I don't post much in this section, just thought it might be helpful )
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Re: Bought my piggys a c&c cage

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Just hung one of my rat hammocks at the bottom end as I type of cover like u said with the towel. They can't climb into it as it's too high it just makes them feel more secure I suppose.
I'm sure that would work and they'd like it but it's not quite what i meant. I used clothes pegs to spread 1 corner of the towel across the corner of the cubing pen and let the rest of it fall/hang into the pen. I spread it across the floor and hid some chunks of veg or treats behind it. I suppose it looked more like a teepee than a tent being a triangular pointy type shape.

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Re: Bought my piggys a c&c cage

Yeh my fleece that I ordered on eBay hasn't arrived yet but when it does ive got to wash it 3 times before I can use it though.

Using loads of newspaper for the time being and towels.
I'm also going to use a shower curtain to line the corex then newspaper then towel then fleece on top.
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Re: Bought my piggys a c&c cage

Bought some more bits for the girls but had to take out the bridge cuz lottie the black guinea kept knocking it over with head lol.
Still waiting on the correx so for now I have a shower curtain on top of that is newspaper then towels. Have washed the fleece twice so need to do a further wash of it before I can use it so it absorbs the urine better.
















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