Originally posted by luckies4me
Can you explain to me what exactly makes the Superpet cages hard to clean? I have my 5 boys in a Multi Floor Ferret cage and I find it to be the easier cage to clean I have ever owned in my whole life. It rinses incredibly easy, and I never have to scrub it because nothing ever sticks to it. I always had to scrub my Martins cages because the feces stuck to the bottom, and it always held their fecal and urine smell, which was not pleasent. My Supetpet cage takes me all about 5 minutes to rinse all the levels and the bottom. It's truly fantastic!

I have a horrible back, and it kills me to clean any cage, but the Super Pet cage was even harder on my back. I am extremely short, so cleaning the top level was hard, I had to stand on a chair. Take out the shelves and putting them back in killed me, because they were so hard to get on and some where hard to get off. The "clips" that are on the shelves where very tough and it took a lot of force to clip them back to the wire. The ladders were also very hard for me to get back on the bottom of the shelving for the same reason- the clips were really tight.

At one time I had 10 rats in my multi-floor and the whole cage was soiled in a day, it was so hard to keep up with the cleaning, and it was hard for me to get the urine completely out of the little ditches on the shelving.

If I didn't have such a bad back, I would LOVE the cage, because it was an awesome size for the rats, I know they really loved it, but I got sick and tired of having my parents spend hundreds of dollars on chiropractic bills all due to cleaning the cage.

I am going to a orthopedic surgeon (soon) to get my back and knees looked at, maybe he can fix me so I can get another huge cage for my children, I really hope so...