As Sauzo said about my SD gal, Phyllis... she's generally pretty chill providing she's got a belly full of rodents. Right after she's takes a poo and is hungry again she starts destroying her cage. Pushing at everything, knocking things over, smashing her face against the doors. She's in a 4'x2'x1' animal Plastics T8, which in hindsight I definitely wish I had gotten something taller for her. I've read that offering a taller enclosure will sometimes deter pushing. She's only gotten abrasions from pushing once and I found out it was because she can fit her whole head between the litter dam and sliding door track on the right side of the cage. I filled that gap with a strip of foam core and haven't had any pushing wounds since. Kind of annoying though because it acts like a door jam and I can't open the left door that way. Going to see if Animal Plastics will make a custom mod to my next cage so that the bottom sliding door track can sit higher and flush with the litter dam at the front of the cage to eliminate the small gap between the right sliding door and the front panel of the enclosure. That's when I move her to either a t13 or a t25.
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