MidWest Homes for Pets Guinea Habitat Cage, Washable PVC Canvas Bottom, Secure Sides, Tool-Free Setup, Expandable Small Animal Cage for Guinea Pigs, 171GH

i recommend this cage. it’s easy to clean, and has a ton of room. my pigs are visibly happy.
i’ve had my 2 pigs in a bunch of homes. i had them in a c&c cage (2×3) and i decided i didn’t like it. it was really annoying for me to build and it’s hard to be able to move the cage around, mostly because the cubes come apart for me. if i snap one in one side, a part in the middle comes apart. it was just driving me insane. maybe i’m just bad at building them. i do like c&c cages because of the space they offer and it’s easy and cheap to put together, but i made my own coroplast bottom (which you can get at home depot, sheets of it) and i just couldn’t get the cut right. this cage is a TON of space for a great price. i personally like that the bottom is canvas. i don’t have a problem with it. i spot clean weekly, and sometimes don’t have to FULLY clean the entire cage for about 2 weeks. i just line my cage with the carefresh expandable bedding and a ton of hay.i do like to keep the pigs eating area on one side of the cage (that way their poops are more localised there) and their toys and hiding areas on another. i noticed that doing this, they BARELY poop in the sleeping area. it’s easier for me to spot clean this way. anyway, i honestly just get a bag and use a dustpan to scoop the bedding out and then dump it into the bag. the stray stuff, i just pick the cage up from one side and then hit the bottom of the canvas so it can all just slide down. when it’s all empty, i spray a dilute of vinegar and water on the canvas and wipe it down. then i wipe it down again with a wet rag. the vinegar mixture is SOOO strong and stinky so i think wiping it down with a wet rag afterward should be recommended. everything wiped down. any little white calcium deposits wiped away too. i think you just need to keep up with cleaning and wiping it down and it won’t stain. i also didn’t use puppy pads as suggested by some reviewers, and nothing leaked through the canvas at all NOR was there pee just floating around on the bottom. i think using the puppy pads would cut down cleaning time a bit since you can just roll the pads up and throw them away. i didn’t want to use them because i think my pigs will bite them and i don’t want to deal with that.i was really surprised when i read all of the negative reviews, and was worried this cage would be terrible. it honestly isnt. it took me about 10 minutes to clean everything.this cage is great for someone that doesn’t really have the time to get all the parts together to build a c&c cage and for a good price. i do like the cages that you can buy off of the actual site, they’re great, albeit a little pricey. but they’re made way better than the one i did lol. so it’s great if you don’t feel like building something and getting stressed out over it.there’s a lot of room (about a 2×4 c&c cage) i have 3 hidey things in there for them on one side and their food stuff (hay area, food dishes with veggies and pellets) on another and they still have soome xtra space in the middle. they’re visibly happy. they run around and chase each other and they get inside of one of their wicker hidey things that they turn upsidedown and rock each other in it. it’s really cute.i also read people complaining that it’s impossibly flimsy and it caves in ??? this cage is so easy to put together that i hav eot assume that other people maybe got defective cages? yeah it caves in because the bottom is soft and if you fold a side in, its going to do that. but when you put the canvas in and tie the velcro straps, it stays pulled taut. i have mine on the floor and it’s fine. you also can put it on a table.. just make sure the table is bigger than the bottom of this cage and no edges of the cage are hanging off. the bottom is SOFT. it is not a hard plastic. you’re not really supposed ot be moving it around anyway so unless you have incredible hulk pigs that slam against the sides or something or ACTIVELY try to escape, you’re fine. the walls don’t need ot be made out of steel if your pigs don’t bother with trying to escape their cage.i have 2 female pigs by the way. they have been bonded since i got them. i think they were about 3 months? anyway, i really like this cage.

Bigger IS better!
This is a great starter-kit for those who have neither the time, inclination nor resources for a C&C cage but still want to give their guinea pigs a good amount of space in which to live. My two sows did racetrack laps when they were first put in here after years of living in a cramped undersized petstore cage (I had acquired them second-hand and the cage came with them). I do not use a fleece bedding and instead just line the edges and corners with Carefresh, with extra bedding in the corner litter pans that I bought separately for ease of cleaning. The canvas is easily spot-cleanable during the week with a dustpan and small brush, and has held up well with a once-weekly strip-clean involving vinegar, Krud Kutter and a bleach cleaning spray that is thoroughly rinsed away and allowed to dry. The canvas bottom allowed me to easily put a medium-sized K&H pet-bed warmer underneath it to provide an extra heating source during winter since I like my place a little colder, and the girls love to lay on it (it is also very safe for them since the temp only goes up to 102F max, and they have the option of getting off of it in case they get too hot). There is ample room for two piggies, but a 3rd/4th would definitely require an additional or separate cage. I prefer the type without the lid since it helps with ease of cleaning and also just being able to reach in and pet/handle the piggies is a plus. If I ever acquire more piggies, another purchase of this product will happen.The cage divider/separator was not included in this set, which was fine because I have no need to separate anything in the cage. They have their preferred bathroom corners, chew log, plastic hidey-hut and hay area all the way they like it. They have space to run laps, popcorn, meander, sit and ponder their existence, nosh on fresh hay…they love it! The first picture is the basic cage layout and the second is the setup. It is really nice to have the extra storage space underneath the enclosure if you have swing it.

It’s absolutely amazing!

Very useful product