fraserbottomley
New Kit
Hi guys, I didn't know which section to put this in so appologies if it's the wrong one, and for the long winded post.
Finally got our bun on tuesday, she's a gorgeous smokey coloured 12 week old dwarf lop, we've named her Lulu.
She's going to be an indoor bun, her cage is located in the garage, which she has free run of half, and the doors open so she can get into the rest of the house. At the minute shes got sawdust on the cage floor, but i'm going to switch this to newspaper and a litter tray with wood based cat litter as it appears shes decided on her toilet corner (shes only ever urinated in one corner since shes been here). She's got a constant supply of hay and water and i'm feeding her half an average sized cup full of pellets two times a day (at around 9 a.m. then 5 p.m.). I've also got some wooden chewing blocks/toys and an empty toilet roll in the cage at the moment, and i'll be going out to get some more toys for her tomorrow.
We left her pretty much alone for about the first 24 hours, and since then me and my girlfriend have just been sat outside her cage talking to her so she can get used to us. She seems quite comfortable with us, she's been having a wash (which is extremely cute! haha), eating, drinking, coming over to see/sniff us and just generally laying around. She's also been coming over to us, flopping over onto her side and letting us sit and stroke her ears for as long as we please, she appears to quite enjoy this as after a while her eyes start closing/dosing off.
The only this is she hasn't ventured out of her cage yet, we've left the door open and a ramp down from the lip of the plastic base onto the floor, she looks as if she wants to come out, she's been putting her front paws on the edge of the cage and sticking her head out and peering around, but has never fully come out. I'm presuming she'd be able to hop out if she wanted to? Or could it be she can't actually get out of the cage?
The cage is similar to this one, only larger...
http://www.zooplus.co.uk/bilder/1/5307_ferplast_kaninchenkaef_1.jpg
Also does everything else I've been doing sound ok? amount of food etc?
Thanks for the help guys
Finally got our bun on tuesday, she's a gorgeous smokey coloured 12 week old dwarf lop, we've named her Lulu.
She's going to be an indoor bun, her cage is located in the garage, which she has free run of half, and the doors open so she can get into the rest of the house. At the minute shes got sawdust on the cage floor, but i'm going to switch this to newspaper and a litter tray with wood based cat litter as it appears shes decided on her toilet corner (shes only ever urinated in one corner since shes been here). She's got a constant supply of hay and water and i'm feeding her half an average sized cup full of pellets two times a day (at around 9 a.m. then 5 p.m.). I've also got some wooden chewing blocks/toys and an empty toilet roll in the cage at the moment, and i'll be going out to get some more toys for her tomorrow.
We left her pretty much alone for about the first 24 hours, and since then me and my girlfriend have just been sat outside her cage talking to her so she can get used to us. She seems quite comfortable with us, she's been having a wash (which is extremely cute! haha), eating, drinking, coming over to see/sniff us and just generally laying around. She's also been coming over to us, flopping over onto her side and letting us sit and stroke her ears for as long as we please, she appears to quite enjoy this as after a while her eyes start closing/dosing off.
The only this is she hasn't ventured out of her cage yet, we've left the door open and a ramp down from the lip of the plastic base onto the floor, she looks as if she wants to come out, she's been putting her front paws on the edge of the cage and sticking her head out and peering around, but has never fully come out. I'm presuming she'd be able to hop out if she wanted to? Or could it be she can't actually get out of the cage?
The cage is similar to this one, only larger...
http://www.zooplus.co.uk/bilder/1/5307_ferplast_kaninchenkaef_1.jpg
Also does everything else I've been doing sound ok? amount of food etc?
Thanks for the help guys
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