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Unless
you've covered your lower door with carpeting or something, I think it
makes a crappy ramp for getting in and out of the cage! The rungs are
too wide. So....
Remove the lower front door, and the wire that slides
over it to close it, and use them for the new middle door you just cut
above it. Re-attach them the same way they were below so the door opens
out and down. The black edging on the bottom of that door hole will be in the way so mark where
the door hinge/hooks go and remove 2 small sections of plastic there to
make room for the hinge wire to clear. This door will be used for your
access only. The ferrets will never have to walk on it again. :o)
Now fasten the new door with the 1/2" black mesh
down below. Hinge it across the bottom with c-rings. There's a little
groove in the c-ring tool that the c-ring fits into. Place a ring in that
groove and squeeze the handles to close the ring as you would with a pair
of pliers. Skip sells two kinds of cage door latches. The one that has
a spring with a hook attached to it worked better for me, but you may
have a different preference. I found that it took 3 to close the bottom
door best since the door is so wide. The
hooks have a small circle at one end which should be attached to the cage
one rung above where the door reaches. Then there's a length of spring
and a wire with a finger loop and a hook at the end. That's the side that
will hook and unhook to the top of the door to keep it closed. For
lack of a better place to hook it, I attached the base of the middle hook
to the bottom rung of the door above, but that turned out to be ok.
Ok. Now that
you have doors for your bottom and middle levels, we're going to make
your cage top opening.
*By the way...
from here on in, the instructions are the same as doing it "the other
way."
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