Vegan_Bunny
Warren Veteran
I've posted this here because it is both housing and behaviour advice. Sorry if it's in the wrong place!
I have decided to rip out my built-in, 3 story cage and bin it, my bunnies are banned out of in for eating the wall, stripping the paint and chewing the lino but mainly because Fiver bar bites like crazy and has sore hocks which I thought were being made worse by running up and down carpeted ramps. I have had to shut the door and block off ALL access to the mesh so that he can't bite the mesh, they are both free range in my bedroom now so it is sat there not being used.
I have decided to get a dog crate to replace it so that they have a "base" and I can shut them in when I am doing any cleaning or D.I.Y etc, I am also going away for a week later this year and need something portable for them to go into when they go to my friend's.
I just wanted to know what size most people use for 2 medium sized buns? I was thinking about the 48" one, would this be big enough for them to spend a week in? They will get some free range time during the day but my friend has 3 of her own to think about and my bunnies are rather a handful so I don't want her to have to worry about them coming out of their cage for hours at a time. It will only be for a week but I'm a bit of a worrier since this will be the first time Fiver will have been caged for any length of time for well over 2 years.
Another question is do anybody's bunnies ever bar bite the dog crates? I was hoping that with the bars being thicker, Fiver may not get his teeth hooked onto the bars to make the racket that he does on his current cage. I don't want to fork out £40-£50 only to have to remove it from the room because Fiver won't stop bar biting it. :roll:
If anybody has any suggestions on how to stop him from bar biting or suggestions for other indoor, portable cages that he wouldn't be able to do that to I would greatly appreciate it!
Thank you!!
I have decided to rip out my built-in, 3 story cage and bin it, my bunnies are banned out of in for eating the wall, stripping the paint and chewing the lino but mainly because Fiver bar bites like crazy and has sore hocks which I thought were being made worse by running up and down carpeted ramps. I have had to shut the door and block off ALL access to the mesh so that he can't bite the mesh, they are both free range in my bedroom now so it is sat there not being used.
I have decided to get a dog crate to replace it so that they have a "base" and I can shut them in when I am doing any cleaning or D.I.Y etc, I am also going away for a week later this year and need something portable for them to go into when they go to my friend's.
I just wanted to know what size most people use for 2 medium sized buns? I was thinking about the 48" one, would this be big enough for them to spend a week in? They will get some free range time during the day but my friend has 3 of her own to think about and my bunnies are rather a handful so I don't want her to have to worry about them coming out of their cage for hours at a time. It will only be for a week but I'm a bit of a worrier since this will be the first time Fiver will have been caged for any length of time for well over 2 years.
Another question is do anybody's bunnies ever bar bite the dog crates? I was hoping that with the bars being thicker, Fiver may not get his teeth hooked onto the bars to make the racket that he does on his current cage. I don't want to fork out £40-£50 only to have to remove it from the room because Fiver won't stop bar biting it. :roll:
If anybody has any suggestions on how to stop him from bar biting or suggestions for other indoor, portable cages that he wouldn't be able to do that to I would greatly appreciate it!
Thank you!!