I think I already wrote a review a while ago but idk how to find it to update it like I see others do. I didn’t get a fake product or a replica or something nothing like the picture like Amazon LOVES to do to everyone. I have never had that happen to me but I KNOW it happens. I thought this crate was a cute color and cheap and big enough for my frenchie. Whom respectfully would never try to escape her crate. I’ve had this crate since September 20, 2022. Used it for a car ride up to Maine and back 6hrs total, and 2 nights while up there. I haven’t used it for it’s intended purpose since. It was just to travel with anyway, a quick fix. Right away I had missing parts. I contacted the seller, I was nice, they were SUPER NICE and I received replacement right away. Just the parts. However, the plastic turn locks on both the bottom and the top for the door do not work properly. They open and close as they should but the metal door doesn’t stay in the slots designated for them. Plastic isn’t firm so when you pick up the crate, with out dog, it droops maybe a few millimeters and it sometimes pops out. I can pull the door out very easily when it’s locked as well, I’m not a strong female either. The dial like locks to latch the top to the bottom, they don’t always catch the plastic bar they are intended to slide over if you don’t pay attention to how lined up they are, understandable but still annoying when you’re use to metal everything and more durable harder plastic and things that latch closed instead of turn dials. My complaint on these: I have a THREE POUND RABBIT. He’s so fn cute!! A lovable tyrant but I don’t care until I’m asleep at night. Where he randomly thumps through out. Not every night. Rain, snow, hot, cold, windy, stormy, if I’m up late or go to bed early.. doesn’t matter in case you think it might be weather changes or me being noisy.. nope. I think he’s having bad dreams and thumps in his sleep. He lives in my bedroom at night. Normally rabbits are more active at night but he isn’t at all. The thumping scares the crap out of me. I sleeps in a small 3x5ft crate, 3ft tall, and has the run of whatever room I’m currently in throughout the day. To keep this crate in use, if he thumps, it has hay as a very thick bedding ready for him if he thumps. It has high walls as you can see so no messes from him with his hay. Well he thumps, normally sometime after 3am, I am scared awake, if I go back to sleep after telling him to stop(put I know, stupid right lol, rabbits listening to that) he will do it for the rest of the early morning until 7am when I decide to get up. Can’t have that. So I take him out his enclosure to this crate and move him to the hallway, close my door. He seems to stop thumping then, but he’s in the hallway in case he does, it will be muffled. Well tonight he thumped like crazy, in the crate he went. Mind you, he’s only 3 pounds. This thing is suppose to hold my 25lb dog about 12k for everyone else. The dial lock on the side broke. The piece it slides over just broke. So now the metal door that already doesn’t stay well in it’s crappy holes, won’t stay up at all. I do not man handle this crate. I’m very easy with it because I know it’s so fragile. You can tell immediately when you get it. Now I’m forced to prop the door side against the wall so it doesn’t pop forward out. I ended up taping that side with FedUp shipping tap.. from my job. I’ll need to use duct tape because that’s what this crate will call for. I’ll have to tape up the entire seam of it. One weak pillar sends the whole house down. Things have been chipping off of this weak plastic crate since I got it. The locking door pieces don’t even stay in THEIR own holes either!.. nothing fits properly. The molds they made the parts from, they put too much plastic in it, it seeped over but no one shaved it down smooth. This is good for a cat use to a crate, whom won’t bother to escape at all. It’s a crate not meant to be picked up with or without 3lbs in it. It’s a crate made to transport a few birds to the vet, or an arm length lizard, or a snake wider than a quarter or a rat or two.. Tips. Pre tape all seams or gorilla glue it. Don’t expect to carry it normal because the handle isn’t made well either. If you need to carry, HOLD FROM THE BOTTOM. and do not use for long periods of time. I also do not use this crate every time my rabbit thumps. Sometimes he does stop on his own. So I’ve maybe gently used this crate 1x a week since September for the rabbit.
