My little carpet has touched the floor of her cage probably 2 times in about 2.5 weeks. She LOVES her pvc gym. The only time she went on the floor was to inspect everything and make sure there weren't any "intruders" I guess because since then she just bounces around the gym, sitting on the lower level and then going up to the top level under the CHE and then over to the cool side of the gym etc. Definitely get your carpet a taller cage. If she is like mine, she will love you long timeI'll be ordering little Allison a T12 here pretty soon...or if I remember, I might buy a cheap digital camera so I can post some pictures of my gals lol.