Guinea Pig Cages - The Most Generally Overlooked Aspect in Choosing a Cage5237486
When you go buying for a guinea pig cage, what are the things you think about? Color? Price? An attractive design? People choose their cages primarily based upon numerous different criteria. Nevertheless, there is one extremely essential factor that frequently gets overlooked or ignored.
The most generally overlooked aspect in choosing a guinea pig cage seems to be cage size. Sure, people might think they look at cage size when purchasing a cage. But, judging by the number of little, "standard" pet store cages nonetheless becoming bought every year, it is clear that people do not truly look at cage size.
Let's do a small thought 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 typical pet shop cage is 24-inches by 16-inches.
Place your self in your pig's location. An equivalent size space for you would be roughly 8-ft by 12-feet - the size of a big bathroom or a small bedroom. So, living your entire life in a big bathroom or small bedroom might not appear horrible - but it would definitely be a challenge to get a significant amount of physical exercise in a space that little.
An additional associated aspect that I am convinced that people do not think about when sizing a cage are the extra accessories that your pig requires - such as a nest box, a meals 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 perhaps ten to 12-inches on every side. That may 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 is like throwing a kiddie pool - three-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 some thing 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 1 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 review.
We begin by moving into an eight x 12 room - an area roughly the size of a large bathroom or a little bedroom. Subsequent we place 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 1-foot by seven-foot narrow strip along the side of the shed.
Then, to make matters worse, we location 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 small and cramped area in which to reside. And, worst of all, our well being starts to endure simply because exercise becomes a nearly impossible task.
