WOW! wonderrodent  that play setup is amazing! It looks like you started off with a cat tower? it looks like SO much fun!  i would LOVE to have something like that for my 3 boys! any blueprints layin around, maybe? 

Care 

 
I have many things I use for toys like right now there is:

My bathroom with some toys...I do fishing for peas there.

The my old cages in the backgroudn with their old castle:


And now since I have my new guiena pig Kiwi in my room, they go on this table:


And they love to eat some bread as a treat while they have playtime:


they also like to play in hay:


Thats all the pics I have on this computer.  I have many toys, they really love chube tunnels and they like to play with inyatas I make them out of cardboard rolls and papers.

I just replaced the table with a martins playpen.  Well, I couldn't afford a martins playpen, and I really wanted one, so I bult my own for about $20.  Well, my playpen really isn't decorated much and the set up really does suck...but for some reason the rats love it   They love the boxes and stuff.  There are some poop scattered around since I just put my guinea pig in there.  She is only semi-litter trained, btu the rats are trained 99% to use their litter box.


Well, heres a picture:


and
Here is the door:


and
here is a side view:


(There is an electrical cord in the picture, but they cannot get to it, adn I move it away during their playtime in it.  I make sure they cannot get into any danger.)


I used 1/4 inch hardware mesh to build it.  I used, as you can see in the picture, cable ties and tape for the door(it was sharp!)

So thats it.  I can have much meor better pics soon, I just have to catch up on my hw since I was gone 2 days with a weird flu.

Wow! Some awesome setups here! Almost makes me feel like I'm depriving my baby with my lack of imagination lol. I can't wait to get home and start trying out ideas.

Seems so many of you let your babies run freely. I've always been afraid to do that for fear they'll crawl behind a tight spot and I won't be able to get them.

I also see a lot of people using bird toys.. I THOUGHT this would be a good idea but at the same time I was a little concerned about them chewing and biting off something that'd be unsafe... (ie.. the wooden ladders..) but I do see some people use stuff meant for birds... would anyone advise AGAINST that?

The Blowing Game. Spanky LOVES IT!

We went down to Lowes and bought an 8' length of perforated black PVC drain pipe and a bunch of different fittings (T's and Elbows). We cut the tube into different lengths, washed them all thoroughly and made a multi-level maze inside our Rattie Playpen (aka Kiddie Pool). I set it up for them today and they went completely bonkers running thru it . Because the pipe is ridged, it makes it easy to climb and since the joints rotate, I changed it up every 10 minutes or so. Every time it was like a brand new maze so they would start all over again with the crazy's. Too much fun! 

A few of mine like 'feather sticks' (as in the cat toy). One of my boys, Patrick, actually pounces on them. 

try it.

This is more of a perch than a toy but my rats love it!... Take a dog rope toy, the kind that is knotted and frayed at the ends, and tie it into a wire cage.

Hi guys,

I hope that my posting is correct here. I sometimes give my rats a selfmade paperhouse which is made like this:

1) Take a balloon and make it wet


2) Then put 5-6 layers of wet toilett paper around it and let it dry for 2-3 days.


3) Cut a hole into the paper and remove the balloon.


4) Let ratties sleep in it or let them destroy their new toy at once 

WOW SoA the stuff you do for your ratties is crazy  Thats so cool. I'm still working on ideas for toys there are some really good suggestions. I have old medicine bottles (Plastic) could I use those for my rattie to play with

Welcome to the forum! Hope you like it here!   

M.

 

Whe I got my Martins Rudd in the mail, it came with a bunch of shredded paper in the packaging. Well, my rats loved the paper more than the cage so I bought a paper shredder (FOR THEM) lol and they lol it when I give them a big pile of shredded paper. very worth the investment!

I'm sure it's machine washable, in the gentle wash. I wouldn't dry it though, just air dry! I honestly don't know though, I don't have one!

Scubbs that is beautiful!!!