Rat enclosures

[elliottreed]

Ok, so this is more than always used for Lizard/Snake/Spider/Frog habi's and I love my rodents with my life.

Soooo as i'm sure most of you love them too, has anyone got any really busy/fun rat or rodent enclosures to post pics of?

Would love some new ideas on how to keep my 2 sets of 2 male rats busy.

GOGOGO!

[elliottreed]

clearly noone has any good setups and they're all in breeder cages lol
did think i'd have that response asking on a REP forum

but i shall post some of my own when we eventually get it sorted and they stop pulling it all down haha
x

[Tomcat]

My males are in a huge indoor guinea pig cage

I put loads of shredded paper in tonight, they had a party lol

[fenwoman]

Originally Posted by elliottreed

Ok, so this is more than always used for Lizard/Snake/Spider/Frog habi's and I love my rodents with my life.

Soooo as i'm sure most of you love them too, has anyone got any really busy/fun rat or rodent enclosures to post pics of?

Would love some new ideas on how to keep my 2 sets of 2 male rats busy.

GOGOGO!

I wish I had got pictures of my old rat cage. You'd have loved it. It was a massive cage approx 4 foot long by 3 high and 3 wide and inside I had a dolls house in the centre. They used to run up and down the stairs, look out of the windows ect. I suppose you could use a castle or similar. I also had ropes tied across, plastic flower pots tied to the sides with cable ties and filled with straw and hide treats in the straw. And the baker would give me a stale loaf once a week and I would scoop a bit out of each and and the rats would eat a tunnel right through it.

[elliottreed]

that's amazing fenwoman!
we have a knight's castle which my brother used to play with
soooo thinking of making a big run and putting the little boys in their own castle!

im sure they'd fight about who was king!

perhaps i could do something with lego too,.. the real industrial type, none of these little bits
xxx

[Gill]

my old ratty cage b4 they died... old pic aint kept rats in years

[elliottreed]

awww!
i love the size of their bowl haha!!!
i dont use a bowl with mine, as it usually ends up on the floor anyway

looking good hun!
get more ratttiessss <3
xxx

[fenwoman]

Originally Posted by elliottreed

that's amazing fenwoman!
we have a knight's castle which my brother used to play with
soooo thinking of making a big run and putting the little boys in their own castle!

im sure they'd fight about who was king!

perhaps i could do something with lego too,.. the real industrial type, none of these little bits
xxx

I imagine the big lego would be good as you can wash any blocks which get pidded on and change it into something else occasionally to keep the boyz interested.
I made my own rat cage too out of 1/2" X 1/2" 16g twilweld which you buy by the roll for less than £40 for a 36 yard roll.
Moncasters Wire Products, Louth UK , Wire Products Online, Cages....easy to do really and the bits are held together with 'C' clips.

Honestly, the hardest bit is cutting the mesh. I just used a sheet of plywood on the bottom which I painted and covered with newspaper but I expect if you wanted to, you could easily make a custom built tray with sides if you wanted to use shavings.
You can also make different levels out of the mesh, of course covered with lino or something to stop bumblefoot. but for very little money and a little imagination you could have a cage bigger than anything on the market, at a fraction of the cost and made to your own design to make cleaning easier. The whole front of mine opened so I could practically climb inside to clean it.I had tree branches, flowerpots with straw, dolls house, big stale loaf, ropes, ladders, hammocks made out of old teatowels,(cheaper than specially bought hammocks) pouches made out of old socks, cardboard tubes from the carpet shop and sawed down to size. Let your imagination go wild.

[Heavenlyhogs]

I keep pedigreed rats and am under mentorship...My first litter will be born around Christmas time...I keep mine in critter 3's.
Will post piccies when i have charged the digicam up.

[Heavenlyhogs]

Their cages have all the usual...hammocks,wheels,rope toys ect and also have hanging tunnels,i put in kitchen/toilet roll tubes and small empty boxes to entertain them.