I need some advice, my rat-owning friends.
I've asked about this cage before, and was told it's just big enough to hold girl rats. Okay, that's fine. Minimum space, but within my budget.
But there's also another cage that I can't find the picture for, it has 3 full levels (wire floors on top two levels I can cover up later), and is about two feet long, one foot wide, not sure how deep (2,2.5ft? I don't know...). It's $120, but bigger, and has a metal base.
If I get the bigger cage, I know there are many advantages. It would take -ehem- QUITE awhile for the hopefully-mine girls to chew their way out of a metal base ( :roll: ), more space = more better-er, it would be harder to knock around with the added weight, plus alot more. But if I get a rat, I would have to pay for all the initial costs, most likely including the first bag of food and litter, the water bottle, the hammock, toys, AND the two rats. I have slightly over a hundred dollars as of now (whee!), if you count every penny I've pack-rattedly saved at random points in the day. $102, to be more exact. Which is extreamly awesome since I tend to waste money the second I make it.
If I get the smaller cage, I would only need to earn about 30-40 or so more before I can get the rats (or the Great Pointed Archers or Long tailed hamsters or whatever I'm going to call them to get my rat-horrified-scarred-as-a-child-from-rodents-old-neighbor to not think they're rats XD). If I get the big cage, I'll prolly need to ear somewhere around another hundred. Not sure if my parents will break down and help me with the initial costs, and I'm not sure I can wait that long 8O
So, my friends, lend me thy advice!
(ps-My parents are shocked at the fact that I'd have to buy TWO rats, so I couldn't even bother with getting a third unless one of them dies earlier than expected
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I've asked about this cage before, and was told it's just big enough to hold girl rats. Okay, that's fine. Minimum space, but within my budget.
But there's also another cage that I can't find the picture for, it has 3 full levels (wire floors on top two levels I can cover up later), and is about two feet long, one foot wide, not sure how deep (2,2.5ft? I don't know...). It's $120, but bigger, and has a metal base.
If I get the bigger cage, I know there are many advantages. It would take -ehem- QUITE awhile for the hopefully-mine girls to chew their way out of a metal base ( :roll: ), more space = more better-er, it would be harder to knock around with the added weight, plus alot more. But if I get a rat, I would have to pay for all the initial costs, most likely including the first bag of food and litter, the water bottle, the hammock, toys, AND the two rats. I have slightly over a hundred dollars as of now (whee!), if you count every penny I've pack-rattedly saved at random points in the day. $102, to be more exact. Which is extreamly awesome since I tend to waste money the second I make it.
If I get the smaller cage, I would only need to earn about 30-40 or so more before I can get the rats (or the Great Pointed Archers or Long tailed hamsters or whatever I'm going to call them to get my rat-horrified-scarred-as-a-child-from-rodents-old-neighbor to not think they're rats XD). If I get the big cage, I'll prolly need to ear somewhere around another hundred. Not sure if my parents will break down and help me with the initial costs, and I'm not sure I can wait that long 8O
So, my friends, lend me thy advice!
(ps-My parents are shocked at the fact that I'd have to buy TWO rats, so I couldn't even bother with getting a third unless one of them dies earlier than expected