Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

Let me maybe save some people trying to find the perfect cage some of the nightmares and hassles I went through leading up to finally finding this perfect home for our guinea piggies. First we started with those standard pet store cages, you know, the ones everyone everywhere tells you is too small and you wonder then why don't they make ones that aren't? Ya so we used that for about a month, till we got another guinea pig for my other daughter and we knew we needed something bigger. So began our hunt for the perfect cage. We then were told about these amazing cages called C&C cages. We looked into making a cage and what was on the market and I was not quite sold. After much research I chose to believe everyone raving about the C&C cage and spent $150 on the C&C cage, $50 on piggy bedding hammock and shelters, another $50 in fleece and another $20 on a box of puppy pads, needless to say we tried to use fleece, but the piggies only wanted under it. The bulldog clips didn't keep them out, and the coroplast bottom is just cheap plastic cardboard that cane be wiped clean, but when your trying to teach your kids responsibility and they can't clean it easily, and it takes 2-3 of them to even get the fleece in place, and they can't spray down the bottom when it gets really bad cause said piggies got under the fleece and made big messes. The kids struggled, and I ended up doing it. But cleaning a cage for an hour, even if it was only 2 times a week, that's an hour I don't have in a day raising these kids, cleaning house, cooking, driving, etc etc. Not to mention the C&C cages even zip tied together are the most flimsy things in the world. So on a particular bad day, when no one would even attempt to clean it anymore, and the debating who's cleaned it more, and how it's too hard to do alone, and momny stepping in and doing it again I knew this needed to go. I started the perfect cage hunt again. This time I knew exactly what works, what stays clean, and what's absolute garbage. I looked at the midwestern cages, the ones you can connect together. I almost went that route, but those bottoms? Those are flannel lined, and would be stained and gross in no time unless again, the adult is willing to take the time themselves to clean the cage every other day min, and that meant we still had to use that darn fleece I mentioned being a pain in the paragraph above. So I kept looking. I found this, debated and prayed this would be the answer after having invested so much into what should be fairly inexpensive pets to teach the kids responsibility. The day it arrived I quickly tossed the old pain C&C cage, and my 14 year old son, who loves building things, put this cage together in about 15 min. So easy set up you'd agree? Ok moving on, the cage is a goood quality and the bottom is a nice normal cage like bottom. The top lifts off and you can A)use shop vac to suck all the paper bedding we opted to use or B) you can take it to the trash to dump right on in. The nice thing about the plastic cage bottom? You can spray it down with cleaner, I like bleach, and spray off the thing with the hose, dry thoroughly and put in new bedding and boom clean. So easy even my kids don't mind doing it. I hope this helps anyone who finds themselves in my shoes needing to find the perfect cage!