I NEED a rat crossing sign  

Why did you put the blanket around Ace's cage like that?  Is there a draft?  

Kendra

Here's a pic of the monkey cage, the Martin's 690 - I'm borrowing it from Anna until the 695 shows up:



There's nothing under the pee corner for obvious reasons. I removed the plush mouse, wheel, and PVC pipe and put in a couple more hides and a large branch. They also have a new sleeping bag and an igloo, but I'm waiting to put those in the new cage. They have abigger food dish now, but it doesn't matter since they store all their food in the hammock.

They had a big plastic hide, but they would bring in food, chew it to bits, pee in the food bits, and sleep in the resulting mess.

Boys. Sigh.  

Is this a Martin?  If so which model??  
Thanks!!

Yup, that's a 695 all right... kind of like the smaller of our two cages:



What I really don't get is why, with all that room to run around and play in, a couple of our younger boys still think that connecting tube is the perfect place to take a nap!



And then they have the audacity to get their hackles up and start squeaking to beat the band when someone tries to walk through there!  *sigh*  What silly boys we have....

We've only got pics of the rat condo at the moment.

http://groups.msn.com/ShawnasShoebox/furrypals.msnw?action=ShowPhoto&PhotoID=249

It's changed since this was taken.  I no longer use colored rawhide for chews, so those are gone, and the rope perch has been removed so they can use it to get in & out of the cage during playtime.  THe shelves are always being rearranged, and the amount and location of hammocks changes all the time, too.

The bars on this cage are a full inch apart, but once a rat reaches the age of 3 months, they are too large to squeeze out.

I have 3 Martins cages at the moment(still deciding if I should get another  R-695,RUDD, or a R-690 for the new rats I will be getting this June/July/Sept.)

These are my R-695's. The one on the left holds my 5 girls and the one on right has my 5 boys.


This is my R-670(it's on a shelf above the 95's) and it has 2 rats, Simcoe and Kinko.


All of these cages are in my room.

Willow and Skittles old cage

Squeakers cage

Hi, I'm a newbie!  I saw all these great pics and I just wanted to share-

Glad to meet you all and hope to see you around-

MER





PS: I love all the pictures of the rat homes!!!

Ratinterrupted- Do you other boys live in that cage too?  I can't remember ever seeing pics of anyone but Ace.

The boys' cage is on the left, and the girls' cage is on the right.  Even though it appears that they are touching, trust me, they aren't.  There's at least eight inches separating the cages - sometimes more.  The boys' cage is a Martin's R695, and the girls' is a Martin's R690.  The girls' appears bigger because I have it sitting on some crates to get it off the floor.  The boys' are on boxes, which aren't as high.

Took a handy-dandy pair of wire-clippers and snipped out circular sections from each cage so that the two holes would be directly opposite each other when the cages were in place.  Then filed and sanded the rough edges down (of course), and put doors on to cover each hole when needed.  The last step is taking a standard ferret (?) tube (has seams running lengthwise along which the tube separates into two halves) and inserting it, one half at a time.  I cut the holes pretty precisely to fit (so that the tube wouldn't wiggle around), so it can be a bear of a time inserting the thing... but the boys do seem to approve!