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Igloo - creating extra doors Plastic igloos can be modified to allow for better ventilation and also provide escape routes if multiple guinea pigs enter the igloo at the same time. This igloo has three openings but two will be fine.
WARNING: Not pre-soaking or holding the igloo under hot water may result in the igloo plastic being cracked.
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Pig Houses by TexCavy (April 12, 2003)| These guinea pig houses are made from buckets, adhesive-backed paper, report-cover spines, and permanent markers or colored pencils. The houses are built from buckets with designs I have drawn on contact paper and then applied to them. The picture above is of my very first one. It is the most plain and simple; it was done with permanent marker although some designs are make with colored pencils.
The up-turned buckets have doors cut into them and report cover binders around the door's edge to keep chewers from damaging the doorway. The decorated ones have designs drawn onto white adhesive-backed paper (such as Contact) and then it is stuck onto a bucket. The hardest part is a toss-up between transferring the artwork and sticking on the contact paper with as few tiny bubbles as possible. I have to use contact paper for two reasons. One, because some of the buckets have writing on the side to cover up, and two, because the marker rubs off the slick surface of the buckets. I suppose paint would peel off too.
On the ones I have used colored pencil, I have to be extra careful when cleanin taking care not to smear or rub the colors too hard because the Contact paper holds the design, but not as well as regular paper. But I feel the colored pencils give a better look than the permanent marker.
The cutting tool I use depends on the bucket. The cavy castle bucket will break like Plexiglas on a score line, so I use a hobby knife such as the kind used to trim rough edges on model airplaines. And a metal ruler with cork backing that stabalizes it, as a cutting guide.
The other buckets I use a kitchen knife my Mom got years ago in one of those giveaways with sets of ginsu knives. I call it my "saw". It looks a lot like one. But to start a door in the middle of a surface I might have to make a hole first. And sometimes I use tin snips or metal cutters. And then trim rough edges with my hobby knife.
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