We then decided to build a cage out of wood that was a lot easier to get into and clean out.
I got some old planks of wood from the shed and started making this, the only expense was the mesh so in total it cost £10

Then... our girls should only have the best!
I started making this cage and in total it took me about 3 days to build.

The wood was free from a local glass company that give all of their crates away to anyone who can be bothered to take the nails out etc.... The wood took almost a whole day to sand it all down so there were no splinters to injure our ratties!

This cage cost about £25 in total, about £15 for the mesh and the other 10 for hinges, locks, screws and wood for the shelves.

Then....we got boys!!!

We hadn't planned on getting any boys, but we caught GMR! (Get More Rats!) when we saw scooby all on his own. We fell in love with him. He needed a mate so that's where Socks came to our house!

I started making this cage so that we could introduce scooby to socks which all went well.

Then we got smudgy so had to empty all of the wood and and redo the whole of the inside so we could introduce smudgy to the other 2 boys!

This cage cost about £30 as i couldn't be bothered to sand any more wood down so had to buy it!!!