The cages

So the cages are here. Not as great as I'd hoped. I'm not overly impressed with the door situation. 120cm wide doors really aren't very useful. However looking at the door construction I should be able to modify them whenever they do begin driving me totally nuts. It'd be much easier to have two separate 60cm door son either side. The other thing is the whole cage rocks? Like seriously, you couldn't level it BEFORE you put the castors on. I was told I had to have 6 castors to support the weight of the cage, but since the castors are all in at different heights only 3 castors are actually in contact with the ground at any given time. Sooooo.... that will take some thought to fix that. It should be less apparent when the cage is on carpet though.

I'm also rethinking my original intentions to paint it. Partly because paint costs a freaking fortune and also because well the wood doesn't look too bad. So I might just seal the interior.

So pictures, the cages are modeled by Simon, Belle and Jupiter my plushie friends. I'll kidnap bunny sometime and post some pics of him in the cage when I get a chance. Basically these cages are absolutely, totally freaking enormous and I am very impressed. I'm also so glad I had them built at 50cm high, it's so much easier to see the whole bottom level without having to sit on the floor.

The cages

The megatron doors open

The petstore cages on top (we're they'll live when the pig room is set up)

 So basically they are nice but not quite what I was after. However they'll make a fantastic base for my caviary. If I can get this building thing working I'm going to make new cages for the top which will be 4 60 cm x 60 cm cages for the show animals with front opening doors.