Crate or Cage?

Advantages: Helps toilet training, secure and safe place for your dog
Disadvantages: Could be misused if you leave your dog in it for a long time, takes up quite a bit of space

...When you are preparing to bring a puppy home there are lots of things you need to have a bed, food and water bowls, toys, collar and a lead. Alongside all these items we also bought a Dog-it Animal Crate made by Hagen when we brought our puppy home in July. Why a crate? = Our breeder recommended a crate both for toilet training and also for providing the puppy with a safe area so he wouldn't come to any harm when we weren't there and also so he couldn't damage things when we were out. A crate is basically a large cage designed for your dog. The crate we bought We bought a Dog-it 2 door wire crate, our breeder was kind enough to take us to a pet cash and carry and these were the ones available there and we got it for a lot cheaper than it retails in the shops or online. The Dogit 2 door crate...

AJ26 03.02.2007 · Read review
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Review of Hagen Wire Cage for Dogs

Pink Palace Rotastak Cage

Advantages: Bright and spacious
Disadvantages: Fiddly to clean

...is also the possibility of purchasing additional cages and tubes and linking them together. These cages are available in most pet shops but I have found them to be cheaper to buy off the internet. In general, this is a smashing cage for the reduced cost but if I had paid £50 I would have been disappointed....

zoe1zoe1zoe1 30.10.2009 · Read review
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Review of Standard Rotastak Cage

Puzzling pets

Advantages: good puzzles
Disadvantages: None

...Orchard toys make many good toys and puzzles we have several of them at work. One of the toys we have is the box of 6, 2 piece puzzles of pets. These puzzles are suitable for children aged 18 months and over. I use them with older special needs pupils. Although the pictures of the pets are cute and big eyed they are not over babyish. Included in this set of 6 puzzles is a budgie, a dog, a cat, a goldfish, a hamster and rabbit all animals that children may be familiar with. They are good realistic colours. These puzzles are made of a thick durable recycled board. The surface is a wipe clean one. These individual 2 piece puzzles are shaped around the outline of the pictured animal no straight edges. Each one cut in approximate half. The way you fit the two pieces of each animal together is by the cojoining male and female...

mumsymary 05.12.2009 · Read review
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Review of Orchard Toys Pets Puzzle

Ferplast Furet - Ferret Cage

Advantages: very large so loads of room for your pet to run around
Disadvantages: mainly bars so if your pet is messy your floor may be too

...I have not personally bought this cage, however my friend has a very simular furplast furet cage, just the layout is a little different. Also, it is simular to all other furplast cages, including a furplast hamster cage that my boyfriend bought for our hamster. Furplasts are a very popular italian manufacturer of pets' products including cages, aquariums, leads and collars, bedding, apparel, accessories and toys. It sells a lot of it's products in pet shops all over England. So what is so good about this furet cage? well it brings an environment that's full of fun for your pet ferret with lots of levels and areas for playing. It also has a number of tunnels, ladders and finally a very relaxing comfy hammock! This cage just has all the stimuli your ferret needs and it is all in a safe and comfortable place for your little furry...

jess--fox 20.07.2007 (04.12.2007) · Read review
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Review of Ferplast Furet XL Cage

Attractive cage, good size and quality

Advantages: good price, comes with accessories, large size
Disadvantages: cage bars discolour slightly over time

...I bought this cage several months ago when I purchased 4 pet rats - I wanted something that was large enough for them all, looked decent and didnt cost the earth. After extensive searching in shops and online I settled for the jenny rat cage. The cage is big enough to house 4 rats, it comes with food bowls, levels and tubes which all helps to cut down on the cost of buying accessories! There is also enough space to add more accessories if needed. There are 3 'doors' - a large one on the top and one near the base of the front and back which helps when taking rats out and putting them back in! The top of the cage also lifts off from a plastic base which makes it very easy to wipe down and clean out. The cage bars are of uncoated metal which does start to discolour over time due to rats climbing on and gnawing the bars but this is...

Huomenna 23.09.2009 (24.09.2009) · Read review
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Review of Ferplast Jenny Rat Cage

Pet insurance

Advantages: Peace of mind
Disadvantages: none so far

...the best thing to do was have him castrated at the vets. After spending money on his injections when he was younger and worming tablets and his regular check ups at the vets, she decided to buy pet insurance. I have a car policy with Endsleigh and have been happy with them for a few years so we checked out the pet insurance with them. It?s a costly thing to have a dog as vet fees are not cheap. The castration of a dog costs £180 at our local vets, add this to the worming tablets, regular check ups of weight and health when they are growing up and their injections and your looking at more than £ 400. This is without including any ailments that they might have in their life to come. We bought a policy from Endsleigh for £112.09 a year. You may think this sounds a lot but it is broken down into monthly payments which can be paid by...

Sunnysmiles 18.06.2009 (10.07.2009) · Read review
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Review of Endsleigh Pet Insurance

Rotastak Cages, Mansions, Standard and extras

Advantages: Easily Expandable, Fun for you as well as your pet!
Disadvantages: Very expensive

...I have had hamsters as a pet for most of my life, up till recently I had kept them in a very large three-tier cage but it was just a standard one with wire mesh and walls and roof. I soon got bored of this cage and found it annoying as my hamster was always kicking sawdust all over my bedroom floor which was a nightmare to clean up! So, I decided to buy a rotastak one, I decided to go for Rotastak because I can have fun with the cage as well by constantly expanding it! I bought the Maxi Mansion cage for £49.99. I almost bought the standard cage but decided compared to the size of the cage my hamster was in before he would find that too small. Rotastak is a cage designed for all small rodents, the tubes are a little large for your pet to get up if your keeping very small rodents such as mice or russian hamsters however this problem is...

angel530 18.01.2006 · Read review
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Review of Standard Rotastak Cage

Rotastak cage, Nice to look at but has a few problems

Advantages: Attractive, Fun
Disadvantages: Fiddly, Problems with water bottle and wheel and Expensive

...can add to it to make it more exciting. If you have cats which may attack small animals in the generic wire cages this is perfect as it it self-contained and protects the animal. However, there are many disadvantages which outweigh the positives. Setup of the tubes is very complicated and fiddly and it is a bit of a struggle to attach the tubes together. The tubes also leak sawdust when your pet runs through them which leaves a pile of dust on your floor which is quite annoying. The water bottle is quite small but is adequate, however, I have had many problems with the ball getting stuck up inside the bottle which obviously is dangerous if you do not notice it. As the cage is mainly solid plastic it leaves no alternative but to use the Rotastak bottles. The exercise wheel becomes squeaky overtime and no amount of greasing stops...

Supergirl2022 13.05.2009 · Read review
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Review of Standard Rotastak Cage

Wonder pets, Wonder pets, we're on our way!

Advantages: Full of lessons, imagination and fun
Disadvantages: Only on Nick Junior

...start with the sounds of the school children leaving and saying goodbye to their classroom pets. Once the class is empty we move to scenes of the pets in their different cages before the phone (a pencil pot) starts ringing, escaping from secret holes in their cages the Wonder pets rush to answer the phone. This is where the first of the Wonder pets regular songs kicks in about the phone ringing and an animal being in trouble. Once the Wonder pets have worked out which animal needs their help they will turn into their superhero modes jumping into a form of dressing up box and initially appearing the wrong costumes before finding their superhero gear. Every episode is dedicated to a different animal and can be anything from penguins stuck on ice bergs to unicorns who have lost heir horns. As the Wonder pets travel to find the animal in their...

piggypine 14.09.2007 · Read review
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Review of The Wonder Pets

ferplast flipper hamster cage

Advantages: hamsters will love this cage
Disadvantages: hard to clean out

...I bought a hamster a few months ago and i thought that choosing the hamster itself would be the hard part as i have heard many stories about hamster's biting or escaping. However when i got to the pet shop i realised that this was actually the easy part. The hardest part was having to decide which of the hundreds of different cages would best suit my hamster. I finally decided to buy the new Ferplast Flipper Hamster Cage. The Flipper Hamster Cage is the new Ferplast idea for your loved pet hamster. It is suitable for all types of hamsters, including russian dwarf hamsters that like finding small escape routes from their cage. This fantastic new cage allows your hamster to play, have fun and stay in shape in an all-in-one practical solution. It is quite a large size cage and it comes with a wheel, house, feeding bowl and drinker...

crazy-craig 20.07.2007 (11.08.2007) · Read review
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