I just bought the ferret nation 142 for my 2 baby rats, I see a thread at the top of the page and there is allot of people with it. Is it worth the money?

The general opinion here is that its a great cage, but its not right for everyone.
PLEASE check out the FN modification post about modifying the bar spacing for babies.  Small rats can get through the bars of the FN and can get themselves seriously hurt.  If they can get their head out, the rest can follow.

I love my FN, I currently have 5 living in it. Like someone else said, do be careful when closing the doors that are by the shelves. I've never had a rat get hurt (i'm paranoid, so I always make sure all rat body parts are out of the way before closing the door), but I've read where rats have gotten hurt or even died.

Just so we don't start a panic here all cages are dangerous.  I almost amputated a rats tail with the martin's door not realizing I had closed it in.

I almost decaputated a rat with a super pet door not realizing he was still hanging out the side while chasing his brother back in the other side. 

So all cages require you to be careful and watch what you are doing.

As for the FN I agree check the all of the FN threads.  I will just say that I have two FNs and you couldn't pry them out of my cold dead hands I love them that much when comparing them to all of the zillion other cages I have used in the past.

Staci

Yup, here too.  Cold dead hands.  Still hanging onto my FN.

I love my FN!

I always check to heads, toes and tails before closing the doors and have had no accidents, thank goodness!

But, I have to say I love my cage even more since buyong pans from bassequipment.com!

What do you put in your pans?

Hey Rebecca -

I was using aspen, but have had SO many problems with mites and lice and with not enough freezer space I have started using Yesterday's News and I it.  I noticed the cage smells fresher long, lol!

I love the original FN, but I always found myself frustrated when the liners on the pans were all chewed up.  Now that I have the deep pans, I don't think I'll switch back!

Well, I have the 2 large pans in the FN and the R695, I did use almost a full bag this week.  I think I am going to layer the bottom of the pans with newspaper and they just use a thinner layer of YN and see how that goes.