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It has:
fleece liners
a hammock tent
corner litter box
igloo
blue box-thing
two flat hammocks(one is a no-sew)
2 tube hammocks
hat-hommock
ocotoplay
waffle box
food dish
4 water bottles

Currently housing four females soon to be 6!!

Mine :>



SP Exotic. It's a bit bare since I have to buy all the accressories myself and I am currently jobless. If I can find the proper materials I will start making some homemade toys.

It houses my two boys, Ian (pew) and Ahren (mismarked bareback) <3



It currently contains:

A brown/blue polka dot hammock (originally meant to be slept in the fluffy side but they don't like it so I flipped it around)
A hanging bird toy with a bell
Three cat jingle balls (they bang these on the cage walls and annoy me all night hehe)
A colourful bird ladder with bells
A bendy rope (they LOVE climbing all over this) to replace the middle ladder
A red ferret tube (i want to hang this someday..)
A constantly rotating array of carboard boxes
A Victoria's Secret bag (lol)
A manly pink water bottle x3
Boyrats (of course!)



And this is my converted half of a birdcage I use as a quarantine cage. This was Ian's cage when I first got him for a month or so while I saved up for the SP. (you can see him in the igloo in this picture.)



It is/was bare. But it's only a temp cage so they aren't living without toys forever! It's currently packed up in the garage :P

I decided to go with a Grotto Style Cage for my boys. I took an old Bookshelf, added doors, cut a few holes in the shelves for ladders, and Voila! According to the Cage Calculator it can house 8 rats, but I currently only have 2 Hooded boys!

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The whole Shibang after we put it together.

Here is my superpet my first home blah blah blah

Inside is:
Tree house from goodwill
star basket from goodwill
hammocks
Yellow storage basket
Camo bag bed
Baby links
And here is my work in progress

New cage!




The top without the Octoplay




The Bottom now has the igloo

Alrighty.. Finally took some pictures of the boys' cage.  They got brand new "manly" hammies and I thought it was the perfect time to take some pics!  (I'd hate to embarrass them with rainbows, hearts and TONS of pink.. shh!) 



Cage currently holds 18 male rats.  11 babies, 7 adults (2 neutered).  According to the cage calculator, it can hold 25-26 rats... but we never plan on having more than we do now..   

Now details right?

Hubby and I built this cage using melamite board from Lowe's.  It's a little over 6ft tall, more than 6ft wide and 17" deep.  The raw edges of the melamite board and the poplar used to construct the door frames are wrapped with adhesive shelf paper to prevent urine from soaking into the wood.  The ratties are completely uninterested in the shelf paper and leave it alone.  The ramps are made out of poplar and are completely chewable.  Each "stair" is attached with a single screw and can be replaced with a new "stair" when needed. 

The shelf liners are made out of acrylic felt.  The rough side of adhesive velcro is attached to all edges of the shelves.  The felt liners adhere directly to the velcro without having to use the fuzzy side of the velcro.  The problem with using velcro is that you either have to sew the fuzzy side onto your material or use the adhesive kind.. that then washes off when it goes through the laundry.  With the felt, that problem goes away!  The other thing I love about using the felt is that it requires no sewing.  (I DO NOT SEW!  Heh.)  The acrylic felt doesn't fray in the wash so the borders don't have to be bound.  You just cut it to fit and you're done!  It all makes for very easy cleaning too! 

There are three tunnels made out of pvc pipe that attach the two cages so the spoiled ratties can easily go back and forth between the cages.  Each tunnel can be closed off using a screw in block, if needed.  There are also three trap doors that allow all sections (divided up by the doors) to be closed off from others if you have a sick rat, need a nursery or if you just have a rat that needs to be otherwise separated.

You may also notice that we've put bricks throughout the cage under each water bottle.  Weird right?  They have three purposes.. (1) they help to keep the ratties nails filed, (2) they catch and soak up extra water droplets from the bottles to keep the bedding clean and dry, & (3) they make cool sleeping spots for a spoiled, lazy rat on a hot day. 

So what all is in this cage?   Geez.. Umm.. Well, there are different set ups for this cage, of course, but in the pictures shown there are...

  2 Wobust Wodent Wheels (Mainely Rat Rescue)
  2 lego houses
  1 plastic dome house
  1 wooden house with movable vents on both ends
  3 litter boxes
  1 ferret snuggle bed (PupAware/Ebay)
  1 bunk bed hammock (Mainely Rat Rescue)
  1 swan shaped sleep basket (Mainely Rat Rescue)
  1 rat wigwam (Mainely Rat Rescue)
  1 swinging rat roost (Mainely Rat Rescue)
  2 hanging polka dot baskets (Mainely Rat Rescue)
  1 chainlink baby toy
  2 baby rattles
  4 wooden hanging chew toys with bells
  1 ferret ark
  2 dog rope toys 
  5 blue food bowls
  6 pvc pipes (baby hideouts)
  1 wooden house (Doyle's house  )
  1 froggy planter (Strange's greenhouse)
  1 rainbow "cave"
  1 edible "tree" log
  2 triangular corner cubes (Divine Designs/Ebay)
  2 pocket hammocks (Divine Designs/Ebay)
  2 cubes (Divine Designs/Ebay)
  Miscellaneous toys, balls, etc

Here's the cage my two young hairless boys are living in right now. It's actually my original cage I bought for my first 3 boys.



And here's both cages stacked on top of eachother. It's the only place I have to put the smaller cage at night. (It goes on my bed during the day.)

I rearranged my room and the guinea pig cage, and now when I'm on the computer, the little nekkies are to the left of me, and the big boys to my right.

Here's their cages, clean and with the things I ordered from Scubbs put in!

I went on a rattie shopping spree today and now I think I am finally happy with their cage.
This is how it looked this morning. Its actually two  36"x 18"x 18" bird cages modified and put together.


This is how it looks now

New craigslist Martins 690!  I covered the other shelves before I put them in. 

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