Thanks for the welcome!! Our Dusty is very cute.
Yep, Shatter one of our dogs is passed out. LOL! The other dog, just off the photo is also asleep on his dog bed. Thanks for confirming that Dusty's cage should be ok on the table I got for the cage. Now, I am so disappointed, Amazon just messaged me that the cage is delayed two days! I don't know what happened. The shipping history said it made it all the way here to the Phoenix area this morning at 6am, but now at 4pm it is delayed in transit.Your dog looks very relaxedI can see now. I think Dusty's cage will be fine on the table with the white legs. The main thing is that a cage isn't directly under a window in direct sunlight or it could get too hot or too draughty
So poor Dusty will have to wait a couple more days than I thought. I am sure I am more disappointed than he is. LOL!
The dried on lichen on the cork log is normal and will be no harm. It seems strange it is stuffed with cork. Is it loose cork it's stuffed with or is it actually a solid cork branch? If it's a solid cork branch, I wouldn't rinse, it just bake it. I had a solid cork branch once and steamed it and it went mouldy because it was so dense it never did dry out properly. 17cm is ok - maybe a bit longer than you wanted but I'm sure you'll find a good place for it. If you clear the centre I'd give it a good rinse and soak in really hot water and then bake it.
The spaces will be where you can fit the other items. The ceramic dish on the right next to the wheel - is that just partly supported by the wheel platform, or is there another platform underneath it? Likewise is the strawberry hide on a platform? Actually it might be good to have the strawberry hide inside the glass sand dish - they often like a hide in their sand dish.Thanks so much, the ladder I forgot to move...it is not staying there. Yes there is platform under all the dishes and the strawberry hide. Here is a pic of it before bedding went in. I was playing with ideas and the platforms are like this under the bedding and bedding is stuffed under all the platforms. Also I am finding I may not need as many bridges as I was anticipating.It's looking good
I think I might have the ladder that's on top of the house, somewhere else. It's likely to slide around on top of the house. Unless you have some kind of hemp mat on the house roof.
It's up to you where you put things after you have the platforms are in place It can be handy to have a spare bridge not used straight away anyway as it's only when we see them using the cage we can see what they do and where an extra one might be needed. For example my robo ignored the ladder (long way round) and tried to just pull himself up onto a platform from near his water bottle (easy quick way) but couldn't quite make it so I had to add a little bridge there. It's better to add something extra later, than to move something that's already in there as they can get a bit stressy about things being moved when they've got used to them.