Guinea Pig Cages - The Most Generally Overlooked Aspect in Selecting a Cage2907829
When you go shopping for a guinea pig cage, what are the things you think about? Color? Price? An appealing design? Individuals choose their cages primarily based upon numerous different criteria. Nevertheless, there is one extremely essential aspect that frequently gets overlooked or ignored.
The most generally overlooked aspect in selecting a guinea pig cage appears to be cage size. Certain, individuals might believe they appear at cage size when purchasing a cage. But, judging by the quantity of little, "regular" pet store cages still becoming purchased each year, it is clear that people do not really appear at cage size.
Let's do a little thought experiment. The average guinea pig is about 9 to 15 inches in length. The average height for a human is roughly 5'4" to 5'10". An typical pet store cage is 24-inches by 16-inches.
Put yourself in your pig's location. An equivalent size room for you would be roughly eight-ft by 12-feet - the size of a big bathroom or a little bedroom. So, living your whole life in a large bathroom or little bedroom may not seem horrible - but it would certainly be a challenge to get a substantial quantity of physical exercise in a space that little.
An additional related factor that I am convinced that individuals do not think about when sizing a cage are the additional 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 ten to 12-inches on each side. That might be equivalent to building a seven-foot by seven-foot storage shed and placing it our hypothetical equivalent space with us.
Add a meals dish to your pig's cage (about half the size of your pig) and it's like throwing a kiddie pool - 3-feet in diameter in the middle of the floor in our room.
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 space.
A hay rack is has a footprint of approximately 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 putting them side-by side.
Does this sound like a lot of room? Does it sound like someplace you would like to spend the rest of your life? Let us evaluation.
We start by moving into an eight x 12 space - an region roughly the size of a large bathroom or a little bedroom. Subsequent we put up a 7x7 storage shed in the corner. This leaves us with an eight-foot by 5-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 location a three-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 very small and cramped region in which to live. And, worst of all, our well being starts to endure simply because physical exercise becomes a almost not possible job.
