baby cage questions

[crossfit]

Hi all,

 

My baby won't be coming home until end of March or even April but I have already been planning and thinking. I have a nice large cage already and just bought a smaller cage for sleeping. I stay up very late so the room the main cage is in would not give our baby enough sleep time if she/he stayed in there all the time. So the sleep cage will go in my bedroom. The plan is that the baby can go to bed when my husband does as all the animals go to bed except me at that time. Then baby can wake up when I wake up and that will provide between 10-12 hours of sleep cage time.

 

My question is how to introduce this. Should I start baby in the sleep cage on the first day, giving him/her a few days to get used to it then introduce the big cage? Or the other way around? Or just introduce baby to both cages on the first day providing enough time to explore both of them before bed?

 

I know it is hard to know until I meet him/her and know her temperment a bit but if you all could share your experiences with cages on the first days it would help me to think through my options and also to know what to do when she/he comes.

 

Thanks

[judygram]

If you are going to use a sleep cage then start off using it from day one, some of the members here use sleep cages for their greys and some don't, I am one that doesn't. Josey sleeps in her big cage, always has.

 

She does have a travel cage that would be about the right size for a sleep cage and she does sleep in it when we travel.

 

It will be a new experience for your grey when you first bring him/her home and if you are going to use a sleep cage then introduce it from the get go.