Hi all,
Thanks for your help with my other question, I have met my rabbits now and am setting up for them before picking them up in a few weeks. They are crossbred netherland dwarf/lop, 9 months old, and are small but not tiny. I am doing a dog crate+playpen setup to start with (to hopefully free range in future) and bought a pen from a website that I had seen recommended somewhere on a rabbit site (Doggie solutions)
Unfortunately it's just arrived and the bar spacing is 3.5 and 4cm wide - I've just been reading about getting heads trapped and I'm worried I've got the wrong thing. It's my fault, I should have done (even) more research and asked what the bar spacing was, but as someone had put a link on a rabbit website to this product I hadn't though to check - lesson learned. I'm gutted, the postage will be too high to send it back, so fixing some kind of mesh may be in order, but it will have to be strong enough for then not to bite through it.
Or does anyone else have this kind of setup and it's fine? The pen is otherwise great, sturdy and the panels come on and off separately to make different shapes and so I can add more in future.
It's hard to make a call when I don't have them here to look at their head size, and I can't find any official guidance from any rabbit bodies. Any ideas?
Thanks in advance
Thanks for your help with my other question, I have met my rabbits now and am setting up for them before picking them up in a few weeks. They are crossbred netherland dwarf/lop, 9 months old, and are small but not tiny. I am doing a dog crate+playpen setup to start with (to hopefully free range in future) and bought a pen from a website that I had seen recommended somewhere on a rabbit site (Doggie solutions)
Unfortunately it's just arrived and the bar spacing is 3.5 and 4cm wide - I've just been reading about getting heads trapped and I'm worried I've got the wrong thing. It's my fault, I should have done (even) more research and asked what the bar spacing was, but as someone had put a link on a rabbit website to this product I hadn't though to check - lesson learned. I'm gutted, the postage will be too high to send it back, so fixing some kind of mesh may be in order, but it will have to be strong enough for then not to bite through it.
Or does anyone else have this kind of setup and it's fine? The pen is otherwise great, sturdy and the panels come on and off separately to make different shapes and so I can add more in future.
It's hard to make a call when I don't have them here to look at their head size, and I can't find any official guidance from any rabbit bodies. Any ideas?
Thanks in advance