misty's mum
New Kit
We have just become owners/parents to two little lop babies aged about ten weeks. We have spent what feels like gazzillions of pounds on two hutches (the first one is too small, made of plastic and cost £89 !!!) the second one is a double decker made of wood and seems impossible to keep clean properly as the urine soaks into it. It doesn't smell and we've bought some plexiglass to cover the bottom decker floor, but they kick all their bedding and poos out through the bars of the hutch.
We love our bunnies - Misty and Jessie but we are feeling a bit overwhelmed and anxious by the difficulties involved in looking after them properly. It's worse than when I had my first baby - at least then I had a weekly check up to see how he and I were doing.
I have a nasty feeling they are going to turn out to be fuzzy lops. They are quite fluffy now and Misty is getting poo stuck in her fur - it isn't runny but it is sticky and we are doing our best to keep her clean.
I think we are going to have to cover the bottom of the hutch with litter trays and hopefully that will help keep the hutch clean. We've tried newspaper - they pull it out try to read it and then eat and shred it! They eat all the hay we put out as a layer above the wood shavings (it's got wee on it, surely that's bad for them?) and they just kick wood shavings out along with the wee and poo.
I heard somewhere that you can get bunny wet wipes - any idea from where?
I also read that they need ages brushing every day - where can we get hold of a suitable brush because the one we got with our starter pack seems too soft to do any good - no hair comes off with it at all.
We want to do the best for these little scraps but at the moment I seem to be bombarded with loads of information from everywhere. Somewhere it said give them pineapple to help dissolve furballs but elsewhere it says not to give little bunnies anything except hay and pellets - we're feeding them complete mix -is that wrong? I've also given them about two or three dandelion leaves a day - is that a problem?
Help!!!
We love our bunnies - Misty and Jessie but we are feeling a bit overwhelmed and anxious by the difficulties involved in looking after them properly. It's worse than when I had my first baby - at least then I had a weekly check up to see how he and I were doing.
I have a nasty feeling they are going to turn out to be fuzzy lops. They are quite fluffy now and Misty is getting poo stuck in her fur - it isn't runny but it is sticky and we are doing our best to keep her clean.
I think we are going to have to cover the bottom of the hutch with litter trays and hopefully that will help keep the hutch clean. We've tried newspaper - they pull it out try to read it and then eat and shred it! They eat all the hay we put out as a layer above the wood shavings (it's got wee on it, surely that's bad for them?) and they just kick wood shavings out along with the wee and poo.
I heard somewhere that you can get bunny wet wipes - any idea from where?
I also read that they need ages brushing every day - where can we get hold of a suitable brush because the one we got with our starter pack seems too soft to do any good - no hair comes off with it at all.
We want to do the best for these little scraps but at the moment I seem to be bombarded with loads of information from everywhere. Somewhere it said give them pineapple to help dissolve furballs but elsewhere it says not to give little bunnies anything except hay and pellets - we're feeding them complete mix -is that wrong? I've also given them about two or three dandelion leaves a day - is that a problem?
Help!!!