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Hiring out emergency rabbit accommodation. Useful for bonding, recouperation......

Mrs. Bunnykins

Wise Old Thumper
At any one time I usually have to spare ;

One large indoor dog crate.

One medium indoor dog crate.

One medium ferplast.

One small ferplast.

Having read about bunnies/ guinea pigs sometimes needing suitable short term accommodation, after op's, bonding,, I thought that I could rent out the accommodation and I in return would give a percentage to Pledge a Pound.

Good idea, bad idea...any thoughts .....anyone interested.
 
This is a brilliant idea! Maybe a thread could stickied dedicated to it. I've got a large dog crate people are welcome to borrow, it probably wont ever get used but I don't want to get rid of it just in case
 
great idea, i was thankfully helped out by my local petshop needing to borrow the large indoor hutch for my babies post op. It wont be for long so it saved me £40 - £50. Its a lovely idea and if i lived more local i would definately make use of this service as needed.
 
This is a brilliant idea! Maybe a thread could stickied dedicated to it. I've got a large dog crate people are welcome to borrow, it probably wont ever get used but I don't want to get rid of it just in case

You may have been able to help me, had i not managed to borrow one from elsewhere :D
 
You may have been able to help me, had i not managed to borrow one from elsewhere :D

Aww :lol: Well if you need to borrow it in the future let me know

Also got a very small metal run as well as the dog crate, the run is too small to use as a permanent run but might be useful as a bonding pen. Neither are suitable for very young baby rabbits though, even though they look twice the width of the gaps, they can somehow squeeze through :shock:
 
Aww :lol: Well if you need to borrow it in the future let me know

Also got a very small metal run as well as the dog crate, the run is too small to use as a permanent run but might be useful as a bonding pen. Neither are suitable for very young baby rabbits though, even though they look twice the width of the gaps, they can somehow squeeze through :shock:

Thanks, will keep your offer in mind.

Perhaps we could start a thread with areas/spare things
 
Yeah definitely, carriers too could be useful for big rescue situations where they need to get a lot of rabbits out in a short space of time
 
At any one time I usually have to spare ;

One large indoor dog crate.

One medium indoor dog crate.

One medium ferplast.

One small ferplast.

Having read about bunnies/ guinea pigs sometimes needing suitable short term accommodation, after op's, bonding,, I thought that I could rent out the accommodation and I in return would give a percentage to Pledge a Pound.

Good idea, bad idea...any thoughts .....anyone interested.

I've lent out cages many a time.......sudden fall-outs with previously bonded pairs......illness forcing separation......needing to bring an outdoor pet indoors for some reason.....but I never thought of charging and donating the proceeds to a local rescue! So great idea! :D I might start doing that too!
 
I have a spare dog crate, puppy pen and carrier I would be happy to lend out too. I would ask for donations to my local RSPCA. :thumb:
 
Do you fellow RU members think that this would be a good idea for a sticky on RU? I think it would be, everyone would benefit in one way or another.

If so I'll contact Tamsin and hopefully she will wave her magic wand and make it happen.
 
I think it's a fantastic idea. :thumb:I've got a big dog cage that is most of the time doing nothing, if it could be lent out and raise money for rescues that would be fantastic:D
 
Tbh, I'd be really wary. How could you guarantee that the accommodation was 100% free from anything harmful to buns?

You can disinfect it, but you need to steam clean to kill ec. How could you only ensure vacs buns were kept in it? A boarding place can refuse to take a bun without a vacs certificate - are you doing the same with the cages?

I see I'm the only negative though, so I'll shut up:oops::lol:
 
Tbh, I'd be really wary. How could you guarantee that the accommodation was 100% free from anything harmful to buns?

You can disinfect it, but you need to steam clean to kill ec. How could you only ensure vacs buns were kept in it? A boarding place can refuse to take a bun without a vacs certificate - are you doing the same with the cages?

I see I'm the only negative though, so I'll shut up:oops::lol:

I guess that's down to the person wanting to lend the accommodation and how worried they are about that kind of thing. I don't think vaccination is really the problem though more EC spores although I imagine it'd be much easier to disinfect metal or plastic things than wooden and I imagine they'd do the cleaning themselves rather than expect the people who own the accommodation to do it themselves everytime someone borrows off of them
 
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