How's This Cage Look?

[Bad Habit]

It's 42" wide x 28" deep and 28" tall. Odd measurements, I know, but the panels I used were 14" each. They will both be getting shelves, my mum's boyfriend has to cut them for me though. I am planning on covering the wood with laminate flooring to prevent the wood from rotting, and the shelf with carpeting or something else soft. Also thinking of putting in some hammocks to see if they'd try them out/enjoy them.

Any suggestions?

 

[ladysown]

nicely done.

 

[MamaSheepdog]

What spacious accommodations for those little bunnies! Once you get the shelves up, they sure will have lots of places to play! Are you going to hinge one of the panels for easy access, or are you going to have to lift the whole structure up to clean their boxes and feed them?

 

[Bad Habit]

Already got a door in place, middle front swings out and to the left. Some days I get busy and can't get them out for as long as I'd like, especially now that I have to divide play time, so I felt guilty and wanted to make sure they had room to bounce around even if they don't get as much out time as I'd like. I'm quite proud of it, because the whole set up only cost me about 100$ for everything, including the shelves. It would have cost me as much to get a single commercial cage that would have been a third of the size. I wish I didn't have to stack them, but if I hadn't, I wouldn't have any floor space at all, lol!

I know the cables look close, but the cage is out far enough that Lily can't reach them.

 

[Miss M]

Looks great! You may be able to give them a couple different levels of shelves each! :razz:

I know the cables look close, but the cage is out far enough that Lily can't reach them.

Never underestimate a bunny. :ninjajig: Mine have managed to chew things that are outside their cages. I'll come in, and I'm like... huh? How...?

I have heard of others' buns doing that, too. Maybe a couple of very cheap lengths of PVC pipe, and an elbow? Probably wouldn't even have to glue the elbow.

 

[Bad Habit]

lol if Lily can get her stubby little legs far enough out of the cage to reach the cords and have the strength to pull them in (they're about 4in out and are attached to the baseboards), then she deserves the chance to chew them up. She hasn't shown much interest in reaching out of her cage anyway, and when I had my ferret(who would destroy everything he could drag into his cage, and had longer, more agile legs than a bunny), he was as close to the cables and couldn't get them in.

I will keep my eye on her though, and make sure she doesn't turn me into a liar.

 

[Secuono]

Screw it into the wall, I can see the rabbits knocking it over so easily.

 

[hlboswell]

Screw it into the wall, I can see the rabbits knocking it over so easily.

I agree.

 

[man-alive]

I would reconsider the laminate flooring idea. I used to install flooring with my dad (he did it for 25 years and I was raised up in the business until last year) and although some laminate floorings can hold up most are easily warped. Vinyl on the other hand is cheap an completly water proof. You can buy "remnants" of it at Home Depot and Lowe's. Some of it has a paper on the back, called sheet vinyl, and some is completly rubber so you can pull it out and spray it off, in a rabbit cage that is... you wouldn't want to do that if it was installed in your house. My concern is that rabbit urine will soak into the laminate flooring. Although the top surface is a hard impenatrable layer, the seams or where two pieces come together are not so water proof. And the material that makes up most/cheaper of your laminate floorings is a paper like composite wich will absorb liquids like a sponge. Now all that being said I have seen laminate floorings warp at the seams/edges from dog urine... I have never seen laminate with a rabbit living on it. So wether it will have the same problems i'm not SURE but I'm confident enough to say that it probably will. How long you have before it warps I have no idea though.

 

[schmitty]

they look great! seems to me that the laminated wood flooring would be real slippery. if you cover it with vinyl flooring it won't be as bad and more water proof as well. i don't think it will glue down very well. if you do glue it down, try and find a non toxic glue. buns will chew on everything. watch to make sure they aren't trying to chew the seams of the wood flooring as well. who knows what kind of glue is in there. i also do flooring installation for a living.

 

[Bad Habit]

Well, I'm not sure the flooring I'm using is laminate, I'll have to double check... I just call all flooring that isn't wood or carpet laminate, lol. The pee isn't really a problem, as the buns don't pee outside the litter box, but I'm sure water will be spilled. I just don't want to have to replace the wood every few months if it starts to rot because of water.

The cage is going to end up zip tied together, and I don't think tipping will be an issue once that's done, but I did attach it to the hook in the window frame... you can just see it in the top middle of the photo. I actually didn't think of it tipping, just wanted to get it all set up and see how it handled before I started drilling. I've had to make some adjustments, but all in all it's proving to be easy to use and clean.

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Would I be further ahead to use something like a beeswax varnish on the wood, instead of trying to cover it with tiles or something?

 

[OneAcreFarm]

Looks pretty good, seems like you really thought this out. I would also suggest a vinyl floor, but make sure it has a bit of traction for the buns.