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[Annick]

Hahah so I left the chins for a weekend, left on Friday night and came back Sunday.  My boyfriend and I are real anal about cleanliness so we are constantly vaccuming and cleaning the chin cage.  Usually I hire a woman to come by and play with them while we're away but she wasn't available that weekend so we left them with lots of toys and food and so forth.  I just have to laugh cause when we came back... nothing would have prepared us for the crazy amount of poo all over the place!  There was poo EVERYWHERE!!  ::scaredspeachless::HAHA I thought the picture would be amusing to some... maybe horrifying also.  I think next time I get shelves made I'll put a gard on the edges.

[Jo Ann]

   Yep ... they were full of it!      They always are!

Guards on the shelves would be a good idea and would help to a certain extent ... just remember ... they will use the guards as chew toys also.   

Guards can easily be made by taking 1" x 1" or 1" x 2" strips, cut them to size. The sizes mentioned can be easily cut with a hand saw.  Remove the shelf.  Pre-drill the holes (to keep the wood from splitting) and use wood screws, not nails, to attach them to the three outer edges of the shelf and reattach the shelf inside the cage. 

Drilling holes and using tight fitting dowels is also an option, if you want to avoid using screws or nails.

Shelves with guards will cost you more than regular shelves and you will have to replace the guards as the chins chew them, but it is well worth it to learn how to build and replace them yourself.   

   Jo Ann

[Almighty Chinchillas]

oooooo honey.....lol...u should c my floor....I sweep it at least 4x a day:)

[Debbie.nl.ca]

Yes you don't realize until they are left for a few days just how much they are " full of it"   

[Crimson_Ham]

Hahah so I left the chins for a weekend, left on Friday night and came back Sunday.  My boyfriend and I are real anal about cleanliness so we are constantly vaccuming and cleaning the chin cage.  Usually I hire a woman to come by and play with them while we're away but she wasn't available that weekend so we left them with lots of toys and food and so forth.  I just have to laugh cause when we came back... nothing would have prepared us for the crazy amount of poo all over the place!  There was poo EVERYWHERE!!  ::scaredspeachless::HAHA I thought the picture would be amusing to some... maybe horrifying also.  I think next time I get shelves made I'll put a gard on the edges.

That's not so bad... With 3 chins and a rabbit all in the same area in my place lol we vac a lot too...

On a side note since i'm trying to find new stuff to add to the cages for them to climb and chew... where did you get that nifty wooden "bridge"?

[Annick]

Hi there Crimson_Ham,

The wood bridge I have in my chin cage was actually put together by me.  I bought two of these things http://www.petfooddirect.com/store/images/prod/10039828_lg.jpg  and i bought some wire from the local hardware store and took the little log huts a part with a pair of pliers.  Then I cut the wire I bought and weaved in the logs.  That's how I got the bridge!!  Hope it helped!

[Crimson_Ham]

I may have to try that... I've been looking into different ways to layer and make the empty space climbable and fun.
Thanks!

[Annick]

Yeah I know what you mean!  They do really enjoy it, they bounce off of it, they chew it.  The poops get stuck in between the logs sometimes though.   

[Jo Ann]

   If you drill holes in the little logs, you can put the wire through the holes ... once full, use a pair of pointed pliers to curl the ends of the wire back into the logs ... you can come up with all kind of shapes!

   Jo Ann