Pack Those Rats! (Is This Okay??)

[OneLuckyScoop]

I have the The Rat Cabin (R-670) from Martin's Cages. With the Cage calculator, it says I can have about 2.5 rats per cage. However before I have comfortably carried 4 rats in that cage. (There are so many levels and nooks, they all have found places. As you know (Or may not) I am adopting 2 ratties from Bella Ratta's Rattery, but am thinking of adopting 3. Would this be okay to have 3 rats in the rat cabin??



I have added pictures of my refurbished rat cabin for review.. would 3 rats be okay? You can't see it, but underneath the first ramp is an igloo

That beige furry thing in front of the cage is my chihuahua pup, Guinness - checking out the goods.


The bedding is "Yesterday's News".


Something to chew on, and keep me awake at night


A bad view of the top.. sorry.


Something fun to chew on and shred. Their hammock is up here too


A rat's eye view


The rats love sleeping in this little "pencil" box. They pile up on top of eachother to sleep in that

[menagerie]

Are you getting girls or boys and how much out time will they get?  It makes a big difference. I've had three girls in that cage before, for the most part they were happy. I've tried three boys in there as a temporary cage, it didn't work our for my guys. They got on each others nerves. Three boys would be fine for a little while if they are really young and you intend to put them in a bigger cage later.

[OneLuckyScoop]

I never really "count" out time - but they would be out all the time. Plus, they would all be youngin's and coming from the same litter.

[knuckles]

I have that cage as a quarantine/intro cage.  The three ghosts girls did  fine living in there for about 2 months during their quaranine and while I dragged my feet with intros.

[OneLuckyScoop]

To me it's such a huge cage (I can't imagine the Ruud!! lol) so I can't imagine it JUST being an intro/quarantine cage...

[Dearpie]

I've seen the cage and I can't imagine having more than two girls live in it.   It's the bare minimum amount of space to me.  I have 5 rats living comfortably in a 695.  For three rats, I'd recommend a 680 or 685, personally.

[jessiree]

I've had 3 rats in that cage, but I didn't like it.  They were very lazy for girls so they did okay in it with plenty of out time, but I much prefer it for only 2 like I have now.  I generally use it as my quarantine cage.