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HappyHillbilly
at Wed Jun 25 13:07:11 2008 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by HappyHillbilly ]
Dag-nabbit! I just had a hillbilly moment..., I'm on dial-up and my wife said she needed the phone to make a call while I was finishing typing a reply to you. I logged off-line and finished my reply & hit "Post Message" before I realized I hadn't reconnected. Lost my dang post. Arrggghhhh! Hahaha!
I'll give it another go and hope my house doesn't catch fire while I'm typin' this one 'cause I ain't loggin' off 'til I finish. Ha!
Since a snake's natural instinct is to fear things coming from above I prefer front-opening cages instead of top-opening ones. Plus, with large snakes it's easier to get a snake out, you don't have to lift 100-plus pounds over the top of a cage.
Front-opening cages can have sliding glass doors (made of glass, lexan, plexiglass, etc...) or they can consist of a single (or double: side-by-side) drop-down or lift-up door(s) (made from lexan, plexiglass, etc).
With sliding doors you can have minimal cage opening for feeding purposes like you mentioned.
Keep in mind the ability to move the cage from one room to another or one house to another. Even though you may not plan on it sometimes our circumstances change to where we might have to get rid of the animal/cage or relocate it.
Things to keep in mind are doorway widths & heights as well as hallway widths and sharp turns. An 8ft long x 3ft wide x 18 - 24 inches high cage won't make every turn from a hallway into every room. A possible solution is to make large cages in easily assembled/disassembled halves.
Another thing to keep in mind is stackability. Comes in handy with multiple cages, especially with multiple large snakes. It's easier to build a box that we can just set our heat source & temperature monitors, etc, on top of but this eliminates stackability. Having all caging components housed inside to where it's just a simple square box on the outside is worth the extra effort in most cases.
I think that's all that I had in my post that I lost. I can't think of anything else at the moment. If I do I'll post back.
Have a good one!
HH
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- Cage designs for burm - knottydread, Tue Jun 24 15:56:09 2008
 RE: Cage designs for burm - HappyHillbilly, Wed Jun 25 13:07:11 2008
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