The Modified BC-7

**This is being provided for shelters to review as we are getting rid of these cages as we close down the rescue.  We are moving to be a pet only home.**

A great shelter cage, it is 36" wide, 20" deep and 20" tall.  It is dividable with both a solid or wired divider.

This cage is manufactured by Quality Cages now Quality Cage Crafters.  (It is no longer on their website.)

It has large doors, that is the modification.  This cage is actually sold as a bird breeder cage with small doors.  It does have a small slide gravity door on the end, I used them to connect two cages together.

The trays slide out for cleaning.

This cage can handle rats, adult Syrian hamsters and adult gerbils.  It has been used by other shelters to house guinea pigs and chinchillas.

It has a flat bottom.

They fit on a 42" wide wire shelving.

You can fit 3 cages on a single shelf OR 2 cages and put a smaller cage or storage on the lower shelf.  We've had them set up both ways.

We have 1 white one and 1 black one. The black one has non-powder coated doors as it was a conversion.  They are in excellent shape, no rust. (They will need to be rinsed off as they are dusty from being in the storage unit.)  The image below is of two of the cages before this set was donated to Bonnie L. Hayes Animal Shelter of Washington County, Oregon.

Meet Churro!

This photo only credit: hp

This little Syrian hamster is quite the character.  He lives in the top half of a critter nation cage and has a big Wobust Wodent Wheel now.

I took the litter box out.

Here he is on his balcony eating a peanut butterman cookie (itty bitty buddy biscuits that look like gingerbread men)

He's about 10 weeks old now and we are working on his socialization.  He doesn't run in terror from me and takes treats from my hand.  That is a start. :)

Nutella leaves us

I'm sad to announce that Nutella left us today.  I went in for the evening feeding and found him curled up and not moving.  He was originally a shy little guy that really came to be very gregarious following his illness where I had to medicate him essentially four times a day.  Twice a day with probiotics and twice with antibiotics.  He came to need to be pet and played with.  He didn't enjoy extensive holding just interacting with your hands when you fed him.  He was well over 3 years old at his passing.  He will be greatly missed.

Rest in peace little Nutella.

Nutella is wrapped here because he's about to get his probiotics.  I love this picture because he looks like he is going to the spa.

Sadly Avalon has left us

Sadly one of my PEW mice Avalon, has passed.  She is survived by her sister Lola.  She was at least a year old.  I really will miss this little girl and hopefully her sister won't be so sad.  Rest in peace little Avalon.

Reeses has passed

Sadly Reeses has left us.  He passed away today.  He is survived by his brother, Nutella.  He was 3-years-old.  Rest in peace little guy.