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This album highlights photos of Ramps to Upper Decks.
1 Nancy's ramp "is it hard to cleen all the hay off ..." "What a colorful pen! I really think ..." View Comments...
2 Nancy's ramp This is a wire shoe rack with the sides bent out on one end and under on the other end. A carpet scrap is over it. "that is a very cool idea!" "I agree Autumn" "yeah cool idea and cute cavie!" "i didn't think the piggy could have ..." View Comments...
3 Nancy's ramp "Where'd you get that ramp?" "it's a wire shoe rack with the sides..." "(sorry, for my spelling) bent" View Comments...
4 Nancy's ramp Double stick tape is holding the carpet to the Coroplast on the upper deck. "Where did u get the cloroplast??" "i heard you can get coroplast at cos..." "or walmart k-mart or target :)" "YOU CAN GO TO AMARILLO, TX AND DOWNT..." View Comments...
6 Chumley's ramp "I REALLY like the design of this cag..." "How in the world do you keep a cage ..." "I have a suggestion..I am 11 and me ..." "AWESOME PEN!! AWESOME RAMP!! AWESOME..." "Really nice cage man how do you keep..." "Great! Directions? Would love them!" "I read somewhere that guinea pigs ch..." View Comments...
7 Chumley's ramp "I love the whole cage, especially wi..." "That is a hayrack that I have seen a..." "Thanks Kiffany!" View Comments...
8 Chumley's ramp Two eye hooks are screwed into the end of the ramp. Carpet is glued over the plywood. "Don't the cavies chew on the carpet?" View Comments...
10 The Boy's ramp A wire shelf is bent to hook over the top of the grid wall. Carpet is laid over the wire. "I really love your pg. What kind is ..." "That's a cool idea!" "How does the 2nd floor stay up?" "the bunjee cord in the pic is connec..." View Comments...
11 Jill's ramp They hop up to the top of the hidey house to get to the ramp. This is a ramp from another animal cage, secured with cable ties.
12 Jill's ramp "Da ramp is Da bomb my Guinea Pigs ne..." "I like the ramp! What is it made out..." "This ramp is awesome! Where did you ..." View Comments...
13 Jill's ramp "nice cage!!!! really kool!" "I like your cage! Its really nice an..." View Comments...
14 Checkers "the squares hurt my eyes" "So True" "This is a pretty good cage...I wish ..." "I think the squares are groovy" "Cool Checkers!" "The squares hurt my eyes they must u..." "My eyes!! They burn!!!" "the squares dont burn your eyes your..." View Comments...
15 Ramp "were did u get that ramp i can't fin..." "wouldnt that be slippary?" "Yes, where did you get that ramp? I ..." "Hi, what a neat ramp! Where did you ..." "where did you get that ramp." "HI, just for info, this ramp is out ..." "Aceally-group supply all kinds of ra..." View Comments...
16 Ramp "Where did you get that ramp??" "The ramp is actually a ferret ramp m..." View Comments...
17 Ramp
18 Using a box Another idea for a ramp that's not too steep and doesn't take up a lot of room. Drilled holes in a wooden house big enough for a cable tie to go through
19 Box and Fiddle Sticks Used the bendable Fiddle Sticks, slipped a cable tie around one end and through the new holes in the wooden house. Cut off the ends of the cable ties. "That is a great idea. My family migh..." View Comments...
20 Towel over Put a towel over the top of the house to cover the hole and provide a little more height for the step up to the upper deck. "What size Hidey Hole is that?
Great..." View Comments...
21 Another view "What are FiddleSticks, and where can..." "CUTE PIGGIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" "i need to by a cavie! how much are t..." "Where did you find that little fleec..." View Comments...
22 Another view Another view including the upper deck.
23 Large Box The LARGE Fiddlesticks shaped to be steps up over the larger hiding house.
24 Large box Large Fiddlestick steps "That's a realy good idea thanks for ..." "Awwwww the piggy is A-D-O-R-A-B-L-E" View Comments...
25 Top view Top down view of steps "ive just did this to my cage! it loo..." View Comments...
26 Dawnda's Hay loft This is my cube hay loft. The 3 beds on the lower level are enclosed on top. The hay loft is open on the bottom and top. I just sat the top-level cubes on top of the beds and secured them with trash bag twisties. I lined the bottom with a piece of linoleum. I covered the top with a plastic storage container lid. The ramp is hooked on with small metal wall hooks that I screwed into the end of the wood. "that is also a wonderfull idea!
do ..." "i love the idea of putting that litt..." "I love it! The little dish you have ..." "I think that little bell is really c..." View Comments...
27 Another view You'll need a saw, small short nails for the paint sticks, and longer nails to attach the sides. I went to a hardware/lumber store and picked out a piece of wood that I thought was wide enough and a smaller piece for the sides. They would probably like the sides taller since they don't like heights too well. I nailed cut paint stirring sticks doubled every 3 inches for traction. I screwed metal wall hooks into one end to hang it onto the cubes. "great idea for the steps" "That ramp is awesome!! I am going to..." View Comments...
28 In use! My guinea pigs can go up and down the ramp easily, but they are very cautious coming down. I think a ramp with taller side would make them more comfortable coming down. I'm considering stabling a big piece of cardboard to both sides to make a tunnel out of it. I think they would like that much better. "thats an awsome idea useing the card..." "Katie is right, cardboard, or coropl..." "Thats a brilliant idea, and those pi..." "WHAT STATE AND CITY AND PET STORE DI..." View Comments...
29 Fiddle Stick's ramp Shari's Fiddle Stick's ramp "your ramp is very simple, i like tha..." "i like the box house thingy the ramp..." "Cute Pig! I like the ramp and house!..." View Comments...
30 Bob's Guinea Pig Ramp Bob's Ramp to End all Ramps! "Thats not the best idea the pigs cou..." "i agree with Katie! look a bit high ..." "Very cool! The ramp appears to have ..." "It doesn't look very safe to me. I w..." "Pigs are smarter than some people th..." "Piggies aren't total idiots you now ..." "It doesn't look safe.I would never l..." "I think that your ramp is a great id..." "How are your piggies doing? I see th..." "how does everyone get their pigs to ..." "That is such a cool ramp! It looks l..." "If that ramp had higher sides, it wo..." "thats a bad idea the piggy could fal..." "The piggy on the bottom looks like m..." "Where did you get that ramp." View Comments...
31 Bob's cage The longest run, under their cage, is 60" long and rises up only 18" in height. The short segment, next to their cage, is 18" long and rises up 6".
Total height gained over 80" inches of ramp is is 24". So it's really not very steep. The pigs run up and down it at full gallop, clucking as they go. They love the ramp. The short walls on the ramp are fine for them -- sometimes they pause on the ramp to survey the room and see if there are fresh vegetables, but they've never gone over the side. "Strange yet intresting" "IS THAT CHERRYWOOD?" View Comments...
32 Side View We lined the ramp with rubber mesh shelf liner. They've nibbled at one of the corners initially but stopped after 1/4 inch was gone.
33 End view Two problems with the ramp:
1) They like to pause on the short segments, as they turn either one of the corners. That's where they pee. So we have to add a towel to the short segment to absorb the pee before it gets into the liner and wood. One more reason to polyurathane the wood in the future.
2) The tend to drag the carefresh and hay along with them. A pile of litter and poops builds up at the base of the ramp after several days. A taller lip at the top of the ramp would have worked better -- they can step over it.
34 Side view The pigs come downstairs to eat fresh food every hour or two. That's where we put their vegetables, on the towels below. I suspect they'd be more cave-dwelling if we didn't give them reason to come downstairs. So every hour or two they come down to forage and explore a bit, and when their done they always return upstairs to sleep. We have never needed to chase them upstairs: it's their preferred spot. Home is where the hay is.
Fortunately, the pigs do most of their peeing upstairs on the carefresh -- the rest of the peeing either happens on the towels below or in Jim's closet (on rubber-lined bath mats). Funny, they don't pee on the carpet in the room.
There are rubber-backed mats, covered with towels, under the cage. The towels have to be changed every other day. The rubber mats go into the wash once a month. I use a hand-vac when I change the towels, and the room itself gets vacuumed once a week during my normal housecleaning.
