advice needed for indoor run

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Nicole+Alex

Warren Scout

• Dec 3, 2009

• #1

Hi, we have just moved house and would like to make an indoor run attached all the time to our hutch.

We are going to put a cat flap in the door of the hutch so that our 2 house bunnies can get more space when I'm at work. Our builder is going to make it like a kind of picket fence attached to their cage.

What wood do you suggest we use. Pine might get eaten? Is there any safe paint or stain we can use?

Thank you.

 

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Rhian33

Warren Veteran

• Dec 3, 2009

• #2

Can you not just give them acces to a whole room while you are out? The minimum size run you would need would be 6ft x 4ft which isn't a lot smaller than most peoples box rooms :wave:

 

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Nicole+Alex

Warren Scout

• Dec 3, 2009

• #3

I worry they'd get into trouble. Lots of potential hazards. There cage is 5' the run would be about another 7' down one side of a wall. It's a big kitchen!

 

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Rhian33

Warren Veteran

• Dec 3, 2009

• #4

Ok. But lots of people who have house rabbits let them have a whole room and bunny proof it removing all hazards and covering all wires and things they don't want to be chewed :wave:

 

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Nicole+Alex

Warren Scout

• Dec 3, 2009

• #5

I agree, but we want them to be with us in the kitchen. They also hate being picked up so it's hard to take them to a spare bedroom.

 

kgattrell

Alpha Buck

• Dec 3, 2009

• #6

This is my set up at the moment, until I bond them

Hope that gives you some ideas

 

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Nicole+Alex

Warren Scout

• Dec 3, 2009

• #7

that looks fab. What wood is it made of, do they chew it?

 

kgattrell

Alpha Buck

• Dec 3, 2009

• #8

It's just plain old 2 by 3 from B&Q cost about £3. Fudge does not chew it but Ellie does. So I've turned the panels around so the wood is in Fudge's cage and I also use a spray which she does not like the taste off to stop her from biting. I suppose you could finish the wire mesh on the underneath that way they would be no wood to chew (on the bottom anyway which is the only place she chews it)