Rat Habitat
Submitted by Dave Horner
Food- in solid form will be suspended from the top of the cage
Water- the water is in a tub that has a hose on the bottem the animal
sucks on the end of it.
A 38" by 38" tank (actually is a box-type device) sits on top of the
tank. Its purpose is to collect the animal wastes as they float up toward
the top of the cage. Using a sensing device, the doors will open to collect
the waste and then close, much like the automatic doors we are familiar
with at large stores. Then it can be removed and emptied.
To take care of the smell there is a fresh pine smell that sprays into
a sponge which is velcroed to the cage over the spraying device. That
way, the spray would not be released into the cage directly but absorbed
into the sponge.
Exercise- I have stairs that the animal climes up and down the stairs
are velcroed down so the stairs will not flote off. The animal has suction
cups on his feet so it can exercise its leg musceles.
Cage- the cage has screen all around it.
The animal has to sleep in the air.
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