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Some advice please.

C

Carol X

Alpha Buck
Hi everyone

I have just bought a new hutch for my two lops, who are now bonding
well. (fingers crossed). So thought I would put them into a new hutch where neather of them have lived before. Nice up and down hutch , but the thing is they will not come down the rump! :lol: They will go up, if I put them in the bottom section but no way are they happy to go down. So they are spending there whole time on one floor, when the idea was to give them more space. Is there something I can do to the rump to help them? (rump is made of wood) or in time will they get uset to using it?They have only been in it 2 nights now.
Thank you all for your time.
Carol X
 
Hi Carol
Have you tried putting treats on each rung on the ladder so they follow the trail?This worked with my two.
I am sure they will get the knack of it once they have been up and down a few times.
You could also try covering the ramp with hay.
Good luck :D
 
My bun wouldn't go near the ramp so I started putting him in the bottom of the hutch, once he realised going up wasn't scary, he wasn't bothered about going down it either.
 
Thanks to everyone, my two little boy's are now moving around their two leavel hutch independently.
I removed the ramp, and added a box instead, so they can happily jump up and down.
Thanks once again.
Carol X :D
 
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