GP TSP - Guinea Pig Toilet Seat Platform
diaryland entry 4:51 p.m. - 2005-11-28
My husband and I are preparing for the arrival of hopefully 2 new additions to our family. No, I am not pregnant. We're getting guinea pigs.
I have never owned a dog and I am allergic to cats. Plus, they seem to require a lot of attention and walking and crap-scooping and stuff like that. I like pets that don't tie you down so much. Plus, guinea pigs are just so darned cute.
We looked into every available type of cage. The most popular guinea pig cages are made of cubes and coroplast. They're very nice, but we couldn't find cubes or coroplast here in the UK. So we got creative.
First we flipped our coffee table upside down and measured the inside dimensions. It is just the right size for a plastic underbed storage bin, which we purchased at Home Base. The only problem was that it was a little short on one end. The legs of the coffee table will be the uprights we attach the wire to in order to make a cage.
We needed a way to block the short end so that the guinea pigs could not climb over the bin and get stuck between the plastic bin and the cage wires. So I was looking around the house and found an old tiolet seat. The lid was exactly the size of the cage. So we cut one edge flat and attached some legs to make a little platform to cover the hole.
So our guinea pigs' cage is made from a coffee table and a toilet seat. I hope that the guinea pigs like it. And I hope that they don't think it smells like butt.
Alana
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