Rene 72 Rat Cage Kit

• Easy to maintain home for medium size animals like rats and ferrets

should be stronger for the price:
I purchased two of these cages for my degus. My adult degus have chewed two of the plastic corner pieces to shredds, (the ones that hold the walls together). They also have chewed up the clips that hold the shelf up. Lastly, I hung wheels on the bars (both cages) and the bars have actually snapped off!!! I purchased these cages from a local pet store and they are going to replace the cages for me. With the new cages, I will keep the wheels on the ground and place the shelf low enough that my little chewers wont be able to reach the top corners of the cage. Also, these cages do not have a bottom tray so you must take the top off to clean.

Great rat cage so far:
We have had this cage since June 08. It measures 17"H by 17"W by 28"L. We have three huge rex rats in there and they are all happy. We do take our rats outside on an average of 5-6 days per week and clean the cage so I don't know how happy they'd all be if they didn't get the excercise. We bought two ferret hammocks and they hang in there nicely. They have a huge 15" wheel that I bought that is plastic but they don't use it, it might be the way it is attached to the side that they don't feel it is secure enough. I saw another cage with another way to attach it that I need to find the original bar that rests on the ground and see about putting it in with zip ties to attach it to the cage bars. I use cloth bedding and have the cloth go out around the edges of the tray between the top of the tray and the bottom of the cage bars so in cold weather I only have to take the top part of the cage off and carry the sheet outside to the dumpster and flip it to get the poops off and wash it in hot with detergent and vinegar. When we use carefresh the rats do push a lot of it out the sides despite a very deep plastic tray. They love their nice roomy house-all three fit in there. All the parts of the cage and accessories have held up very well. I have one bar that finally broke on the side where the plastic hook that holds the top and bottom of the cage together goes (the bar part and the tray part). I hook those plastic clips very tight and am not always careful and since I clean it almost daily the wear and tear and break are probably user fault. It hasn't become a problem yet as it is only one side of the one bar and I just use a different bar now to hook the clip on. I think ideally sizewise that someone should use it for one or two rats, but ours were all cagemates at petsmart and one was sick in the back when we bought the other two and I came back a few weeks later and he was there all by his lonesome so we decided he needed to be reunited with his brothers and we already had spent the money on this size cage. The plastic tray is nice as there are no wires for them to hurt their feet on and I bought this on amazon, though, when it was only $32 and qualified for super saver shipping. I don't think I'd pay the current price for it as there are bigger cages for that. Marchioro makes a deluxe hamster cage that is the same size with lots of accessories that is somewhat cheaper and is sold thru petco's amazon storefront. If the price goes down again to the 50 range it is worth it as it is well constructed and seems pretty durable. It is also a pleasant color to look at.