Ceramic sleeping hut?

[Leowyldemi]

i've been going over some sleep hut options for my little buzzsaw,obviously plastic is out of the question, and she quickly goes through wooden boxes, so i had an idea.she has a glazed ceramic food bowl that works out pretty well, i was wondering if i could find a glazed ceramic hut or pot, with regular woodsticks and blocks to satisfy her need to chew, would this work for her?

 

[LoveBug]

have you tried a fleece hidey house?
or a fleece tube?
my girl doesn't sleep in her fleece house or her wood house, but will sleep in her tube.
basically she never leaves it.

 

[Peep_erz]

As long as it is chin safe I think it should be fine. some of us keep flower pots in the cage and Laurie has a chin that sleeps in a fishbowl.

 

[menagerie]

I have these in a few cages. They are flower pots that are designed to hang on a wall.

Just make sure the glaze does not contain lead. You can buy lead testing kits at home improvement stores.

 

[Shopaholic0514]

Menagerie, where can we find those flower pots?

 

[ChinCity]

That looks nice Menagerie and good idea. Have to keep my eyes open for one of those. The breeder I got one of my chins from had one of those ceramic bust baths as a house.

 

[ResilientRosie]

I have a flower pot as well. Most pots have a hole in the bottom to allow water to absorb into the soil when you have them planted. I put a large bolt through the hole with two large washers (one on each side) and a large wingnut to secure it to the cage. It sits nicely on it's side. I bought five of them on clearance at JoAnn Fabrics. They are large and glazed. My chins like to hang out in them, but they prefer to sleep in hammocks.

 

[Essentia]

Menagerie, where can we find those flower pots?

I got mine at Hobby Lobby. I wasn't able to find blue, but I have a few green and a few red ones. They are $25ish a piece, so keep an eye out for a 50% off sale on ceramics/pottery. I always stock up on them when they have the sale.

 

[tcraighenry]

I bought a tube from someone here on the forums and my god does our little girl love it.

 

[Carleigh]

My chinchillas went through their wooden house in no time at all. Now that the hole is too big for any actual privacy, they all share a fleece tube. Those ceramic pots are a very interesting idea though, and I'm sure they'd appreciate the cool feel.

 

[Dom3rd]

The ceramic pots are a really cool idea, i know that i have seen a few like that at Home Depot I did not think to look at Michael's or some of the craft stores too.