Guinea Pig Cages - The Most Commonly Overlooked Aspect in Choosing a Cage7370590
When you go buying for a guinea pig cage, what are the things you think about? Colour? Cost? An attractive design? Individuals choose their cages primarily based upon numerous different criteria. However, there is one very essential factor that frequently gets overlooked or ignored.
The most commonly overlooked factor in selecting a guinea pig cage appears to be cage size. Certain, individuals might think they look at cage size when purchasing a cage. But, judging by the number of small, "standard" pet store cages nonetheless being bought each year, it is clear that people do not really look at cage size.
Let's do a little believed experiment. The typical guinea pig is about 9 to 15 inches in length. The typical height for a human is roughly 5'4" to 5'10". An average pet shop cage is 24-inches by 16-inches.
Place yourself in your pig's location. An equivalent size room for you would be roughly 8-ft by 12-feet - the size of a big bathroom or a little bedroom. So, living your entire life in a big bathroom or little bedroom may not appear horrible - but it would certainly be a challenge to get a substantial quantity of exercise in a space that small.
An additional related aspect that I'm convinced that individuals do not consider when sizing a cage are the extra accessories that your pig requires - such as a nest box, a food dish and a hay rack.
So let's return to our hypothetical equivalent space. When we add a nest box to our pig's cage, we are adding an item that is maybe 10 to 12-inches on every side. That might be equivalent to developing a seven-foot by seven-foot storage shed and putting it our hypothetical equivalent room with us.
Add a meals dish to your pig's cage (about half the size of your pig) and it is like throwing a kiddie pool - 3-feet in diameter in the middle of the floor in our space.
Of course we're going to need a water bottle. This would be roughly equivalent to something the size of a hot water heater standing in the corner of our equivalent room.
A hay rack is has a footprint of roughly 4 by seven inches. So adding a hay rack to the wall might be roughly equivalent to pushing a couple of nightstands up against one of the walls in our hypothetical equivalent room and placing them side-by side.
Does this sound like a lot of space? Does it sound like someplace you would like to invest the rest of your life? Let us evaluation.
We begin by moving into an 8 x 12 space - an area roughly the size of a large bathroom or a small bedroom. Subsequent we put up a 7x7 storage shed in the corner. This leaves us with an eight-foot by five-foot space in front of the shed and a useless one-foot by seven-foot narrow strip along the side of the shed.
Then, to make matters worse, we place a 3-foot wading pool, a water heater and two nightstands in our remaining 8x5 living space. What does this leave us with? We are left with a extremely little and cramped area in which to live. And, worst of all, our well being starts to endure because exercise becomes a nearly impossible task.
