Okay, my rats (Nicky and Baby), need a new cage. I have a very small budget, but I want to get them a nice, roomy cage. Can you please give me some suggestions of cages I may be able to afford? I only have $40 dollars to do this with, and half of that is a gift card.
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You will have an incredibly hard time finding a roomy $40 cage. Mine barely made the cut for the minimum size, and it was $100. If you want to check it out and can wait a bit of time before you buy it, here's the cheapest average sized cage I could find:
http://www.petsmart.com/global/product_d...
Something that's a lot more fun to do and cheaper is making your own cage. Take a look at this page, it gives a lot of ideas and examples.
http://www.geocities.com/ratsonthehill/c...
My favorite is making a cage out of an old cabinet.
http://www.geocities.com/andreasrats/cag...
Some of the pages come with plenty of instructions. If those don't help you might want to look some more articles up online, I can't find the page I originally used. Making it can take a lot of work and time, but in the end it's very cheap and very roomy. Supplies can probably be found at a local hardware store.
Hope this helps!
I don't know, but get wire...my rats chewed through their plastic cages.
$40 isnt going to get you that far when you are trying to get a 'nice roomy' hamster cage. I would suggest saving a bit more (to have a total or $70) the cage i have for two female rats was $69 in the store but its cheaper if you order it over the internet.
*My cage-- http://www.petco.com/product/8335/coast-...
*Cage with your budget-- to tell you the truth, the only cages i could find under $40 were small dwarf hamster/mice cages DO NOT GET YOU RAT A $40 CAGE!! THEY ARE WAAAAY TO SMALL!
40 dollars huh you could always try to find a scrap yard. They usually sell stuff they get for pretty cheap. Or you could try getting a couple aquariums togetherand getting some of those pipes they crawl inside depending all on the size of your rats though, Mine was huge.
Watch at garage sales for a good deal on a large aquarium, then just buy or make a mesh top for it. We kept rats for years in old aquariums--very cheap when used and a crack in the glass won't matter.
Try looking trough craigslist.com. Try local animal shelters I know the one I work for sells cages sometimes. Also try your local freecycle group. Search yahoo groups freecycle and your city. Also check the newspapers classifieds.Good luck.
u can by a good big big big cage with that at petco or a garage sale!
i have a rat and i use a big fish aquarium
i got it at a yard sale for $20 but that might of been just luck i dont know how much a fish tank brand new will cost
keeps her safe from my house cats 2
good luck
You could get one of those toppers for a 10 gallon tank. They go for about 40 dollars and they are huge.
I know they sell them at petco.
http://www.petco.com/product/10806/small...
there is the link to what I am talking about. I have 7 females, and that is big enough for all of them.
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