September555
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Any advice about how chilly rats can tolerate?
I have a problem that has recently came up the last month or so. I live in a basement house. It is always colder down there....I mean it stays around 65-72 no matter how high I set the heat and I live in KC Missouri and right now it is snow and -5 windchill and 8 degrees out and has been this cold the last week or so. I have my two girls (not hairless) in my bedroom. I work at night and when I leave since getting my kitten Milo in July, I shut my bedroom door because Milo likes to play tarzan and jump up and hang off girls cage...which is whatever for the most part...the girls hiss at him, he does it a few times and stops...but he does it several times a day (we are working on breakin this childish behavior lol). I am worried he will pull the cage off or over and it will come open or undone and they will get out and he will kill them or something. SO....when I leave for work at night I shut my bedroom door since no one is there. With that door shut, even though I have two heat vents in my room...it gets pretty chilly in there at night...quite a bit chilly actually.
I have a superpet cage that is 30x18x30. It is setting on a 2-3 foot tall bookshelf as wide as it is). The girls have a fleece hammock that has a piece of fleece over the top of it to make a small dome hammock hanging from roof. A fleece cube from wonderrodent with three holes in it (so a bit drafty) on second shelf and a cuddle cup and igloo on bottom shelf. So they have warm sleeping places and they often sleep together, except the baby plays all night so older one sleeps alone. I have always had clear see through (well its kinda frosty) plastic over the top and down the back of the cage and on each side, from the bottom almost half way up to keep drafts out of the bottom of the cage.
I am soooo worried they are getting cold at night. How tolerable are they to chilliness? I mean....I just dont know what else I can do. Last night I laid a towel over one side of the cage and the girls got a little upset so I took it off...dont want them afraid to be in their cage or not be able to see out of it. :sad3:
Im just really worried about them getting cold at night. Opinions? anic:
I have a space heater on on the afternoons when temp drops, but dont want to leave that running all night with no one there...too dangerous.
here is what cage looks like
the plastic I have on there runs across the entire top and down the entire back and then on each side I have the plastic going up from bottom to just about 3 inches above that bottom shelf on the left, so pretty much half way up
I have a problem that has recently came up the last month or so. I live in a basement house. It is always colder down there....I mean it stays around 65-72 no matter how high I set the heat and I live in KC Missouri and right now it is snow and -5 windchill and 8 degrees out and has been this cold the last week or so. I have my two girls (not hairless) in my bedroom. I work at night and when I leave since getting my kitten Milo in July, I shut my bedroom door because Milo likes to play tarzan and jump up and hang off girls cage...which is whatever for the most part...the girls hiss at him, he does it a few times and stops...but he does it several times a day (we are working on breakin this childish behavior lol). I am worried he will pull the cage off or over and it will come open or undone and they will get out and he will kill them or something. SO....when I leave for work at night I shut my bedroom door since no one is there. With that door shut, even though I have two heat vents in my room...it gets pretty chilly in there at night...quite a bit chilly actually.
I have a superpet cage that is 30x18x30. It is setting on a 2-3 foot tall bookshelf as wide as it is). The girls have a fleece hammock that has a piece of fleece over the top of it to make a small dome hammock hanging from roof. A fleece cube from wonderrodent with three holes in it (so a bit drafty) on second shelf and a cuddle cup and igloo on bottom shelf. So they have warm sleeping places and they often sleep together, except the baby plays all night so older one sleeps alone. I have always had clear see through (well its kinda frosty) plastic over the top and down the back of the cage and on each side, from the bottom almost half way up to keep drafts out of the bottom of the cage.
I am soooo worried they are getting cold at night. How tolerable are they to chilliness? I mean....I just dont know what else I can do. Last night I laid a towel over one side of the cage and the girls got a little upset so I took it off...dont want them afraid to be in their cage or not be able to see out of it. :sad3:
Im just really worried about them getting cold at night. Opinions? anic:
I have a space heater on on the afternoons when temp drops, but dont want to leave that running all night with no one there...too dangerous.
here is what cage looks like
the plastic I have on there runs across the entire top and down the entire back and then on each side I have the plastic going up from bottom to just about 3 inches above that bottom shelf on the left, so pretty much half way up