So, having bonded my 2 pairs into a quad last October I have now got to come up with a solution for vet visits. Apricot and Ginger are due their booster shortly and Dandy and Beano are due in the summer.
I think the ideal situation is to take all 4 in the same carrier each time so as not to leave 2 at home claiming the territory? I'm looking at the Ferplast Pet Carrier Atlas Car Mini -
http://t.zooplus.co.uk/shop/dogs/dog_cages_carriers/crates/small_dog_crates/169763,
or the Atlas 80 Dog Car Crate http://t.zooplus.co.uk/shop/dogs/dog_cages_carriers/crates/large_dog_crates/353588
as I imagine it will be easier to get one rabbit out at a time from that kind of crate given Dandy and Beano are especially nervous. I think the mini would be large enough as they are all small rabbits, but with the atlas 80 you can buy a divider and split it in half, the divider is fairly solid but I think I could get my hubby to make one that was mesh to slot into the middle, so they can still smell and touch each other, wondered if that was an idea so I was less likely to have escapees? :lol:
I really don't know what's best :lol: lots of the large carriers seem to be either front opening or top opening only, I think front opening only would be fine for enticing them in but then I'd be trying to scrape them out of the back of it at the vets :shock: top opening only would be hard as they all hate being picked up and each time I try to add one more rabbit to the crate the others would try to jump out :lol: front and top opening combined would probably be ok but I'd still have to go in from above them to lift them out, and they'd hate that.
Oh gosh it's such a worry, last year I got myself into such a stressed state about how on earth I was going to get Dandy and Beano to the vets and get them vaccinated, as at the time I'd not had them long and they were even wilder :shock::lol: in the end I had them done at home (in the hutch :lol by the farm vet when she came to visit my poorly goat.
Help RU :lol:
I think the ideal situation is to take all 4 in the same carrier each time so as not to leave 2 at home claiming the territory? I'm looking at the Ferplast Pet Carrier Atlas Car Mini -
http://t.zooplus.co.uk/shop/dogs/dog_cages_carriers/crates/small_dog_crates/169763,
or the Atlas 80 Dog Car Crate http://t.zooplus.co.uk/shop/dogs/dog_cages_carriers/crates/large_dog_crates/353588
as I imagine it will be easier to get one rabbit out at a time from that kind of crate given Dandy and Beano are especially nervous. I think the mini would be large enough as they are all small rabbits, but with the atlas 80 you can buy a divider and split it in half, the divider is fairly solid but I think I could get my hubby to make one that was mesh to slot into the middle, so they can still smell and touch each other, wondered if that was an idea so I was less likely to have escapees? :lol:
I really don't know what's best :lol: lots of the large carriers seem to be either front opening or top opening only, I think front opening only would be fine for enticing them in but then I'd be trying to scrape them out of the back of it at the vets :shock: top opening only would be hard as they all hate being picked up and each time I try to add one more rabbit to the crate the others would try to jump out :lol: front and top opening combined would probably be ok but I'd still have to go in from above them to lift them out, and they'd hate that.
Oh gosh it's such a worry, last year I got myself into such a stressed state about how on earth I was going to get Dandy and Beano to the vets and get them vaccinated, as at the time I'd not had them long and they were even wilder :shock::lol: in the end I had them done at home (in the hutch :lol by the farm vet when she came to visit my poorly goat.
Help RU :lol:
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