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Another question regarding the downsizing of my rats cage2007-11-24 21:57:34

I found a wide guinea pig/rabbit cage (one I asked earlier about housing guinea pigs in).

My rat is 4 pushing 5 years old, and I want to downsize her cage due to the hazards her nice and spaceous home now has. She's not walking a whole lot. She'll go to the bottom when she's hungry, and to the top to sleep in her hidey-house and her hamick. I know she's getting old, so it's getting harder for her to move around, so I want to make it easier for her to move around by downsizing her 4-story cage into a 1 story cage. I found a nice guinea pig and rabbit cage, and it offers her a bunch of room to run, sleep and play.

I'm not sure if the cage bars are to wide, I don't want her escaping and hurting herself,I love her too much. I'm thiking about purchasing the medium sized one, becuase eventually I'll use it again. (I always use my cages again)

To you do the bars look to far apart? Sugar won't go as far as squeezing herself through bars, she prefers tricking me to escape.LINK BELOW

Answers:

The rule to follow for rats and mice squeezing through a space is the size of their head. If they can fit their head through, they can flatten their bodies and escape. I found out the hard way that ferret cages will not contain rats.

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Have you considered an aquarium? No bars to get caught on or rip claws on and they're a very safe environment, especially for an older rat. You can get a screen cover for the top of it.

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well first of all u have a rat ewww no im jp well when u have a rat near 4 or 5 they get older and tired and dont wont to do the things they used to do

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I think you'll probably be okay with that. If you got it and she can squeeze through, then you could always buy some wire mesh to cover the bars with so she can't get out.