I've had this for about a week now, and even though it took a little bit of abuse early on, it's still fully functional and all in one piece...er...all the pieces to it are in one piece, that is. It is a very light cage, so if you do happen to have curious cats...don't put it on a shelf or anything like that where they can get up and push it around. Unfortunately, I had it on the room divider, half-wall, shelf-planter...thingie...and the smallest of our cats was the most curious, and he knocked it over the edge during the night. I had two little robo hamsters in it, and one just stayed hunkered down in the petting zone room, and was just fine when we found the mess in the morning. The other one, poor dear...there's been no sign of her! We have hope that maybe, just maybe, she made a run for it and is hiding in the couch or something, but it's been several days now, and if that was the case, she still hasn't come out. The cage was not damaged. The purple top came off in the crash, and the petting zone popped out, but none of the plastic broke. One corner of the wire part of the cage, the part that hit the ground, was a little smooshed down, but I was able to use a puncil to push them back into being evenly spaced. Now we keep it on the floor...our cats are just too...pushy. They've been fine on the floor (the hamster and her new tiny mice roomates), and enjoy running around this cage, and the other cage I bought to broaded their horizons.
On a side note, maybe it's just because the hamsters & the mice I got were still very young, or maybe they were just the least intelligent of their bunch...or maybe it's just nervousness? They had a lot of trouble with the tubes for the first day or so. It took hours before they realized they could climb up them, and then when they did...for two of them it took the rest of the day figuring out how to get back down. The robo hamsters didn't like the wheel on this one. The surviving hamster _does_ love the inside wheel of the other cage we got. Maybe she was just too lazy to climb up to the other one, but...there you go. The mice absolutely love it, though they don't seem to be able to get it to turn in the circle as smoothly as the hamsters could (when I put them up there to at least try it).
The bottle...Mine has yet to leak, except for when I squeezed it a little to try and show the hamsters that that's where the water was - they'd gone all day without even sniffing up at it and I was a little worried they might be thirsty! I think they were just still too short for it though - they drank the drops up off the ground very quickly! And that was another reason why I got the other cage to attach to it - the water bottle goes on teh side and hangs lower, the food dish is more her size, the wheel is right where she can reach it. Robo hamsters are just so, so, so small! The mice have no trouble with it though. I see them stop to take a sip from it all the time. It's just high enough for them to stand up underneath it and snatch a sip.
I look forward to adding more and more pieces for them to play in :)Get more detail about Super Pet CritterTrail Extreme Challenge Habitat.
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