Tell me WHY you like your DOMETOP cages.

[lovethatgrey]

What are the advantages?

 

What are the irritations and inconveniences?

 

 

Please be informative and helpful. Thanks in advance.

[birdhouse]

I like them because they tend to have a greater inside height than the playtops with the same footprint. I don't have a lot of room for 3 good sized cages, so this helps give the birds more area while talking up less floor space.

 

I like the styles better, most times. Many have more of a design to compliment a room vs the playtops that just look like a cage to me.

 

Phenix is afraid of having a perch over his head on the outside of the cage. I don't like having a solid "ceiling" where the upper tray is on the play tops. I'd just rather the birds had the visibility when they're inside the cage. I also guess I feel like the dome might be easier to climb.

 

I have open dometops, so the birds still have the ability to play on top of the cage & so they can come & go without interacting with the dog if they want. I don't have to accommodate an open door & the dog doesn't get to stick her head in the cage.

 

The trick is setting up the cage so it opens without having to rearrange everything & so the bird doesn't shower droppings over the entire cage. It just takes a little practice. I really don't notice it, so I guess I have to say I don't have any real drawbacks to report.

 

Hope that was "informative & helpful", not just a lot longer than I thought it would be!

[aeriga]

Just another tid bit - with the regular cages, you don't need to put the tray under the play top. We don't, we leave it off all the time so that Oscar can have light, even when he plays on top he perches on the sides of the cage, his atom or the play stand rather then on the flat tray.

[animalINSPIRED]

We recently purchased a dome top cgae to replace Averi's night cage. To be honest, besides for the looks, which I must say I prefer, I haven't found any true bonuses to a dome top compared to a flat-topped cage (her day time cage is flat-topped and doesn't have a play stand on top). Though I do prefer the dome tops to the closed top cages, because Averi loves hanging upside down. All and all I find flat-topped cages and dome-tops to be awfully similar, while closed tops are less preferred.