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Just keep an eye to see if bunny starts chewing soft toy if he does then remove it, Biscuit has never had one.Uwe I’m not into buying things online, I’ve never done that before.Timothy Hay is supposed to be the best right though?
Not to worry, yes try to find timothy hay which isn't dusty but is nice and dry and smells sweet not mouldy. Do you have a farm nearby maybe they have some hay?
Biscuit looks lovely. Thank youI was thinking of getting a browny lop myself as I didn’t want one that looked like Henry or Bunny. I think Biscuit has more space than my pen at home.
Biscuit is lucky to have our space room but she unfortunely doesn't have any outside space at the moment.
I couldn’t have my pen made an inch bigger though as the wood wouldn’t fit up the stairs, the living room door had to be taken off and paintwork scuffed to get in up.I wasn’t sure how hygenic and well behaved Henry would be so that’s why I built a pen inside his room. I love the painted wood paneling in his room and I didn’t want him getting his teeth around it.Also I didn’t know if he’d pee in the corners and it’d get minging.
I love your room, and yes bunnies can dig, scratch and general distroy things so I think the things you have done to prevent this is really good
Does Biscuit not get burnt by your radiator?
[COLOR="Red"]We only moved in a couple of months ago so have not had heating on yet, I did ask on here about radiator covers, but the majority of people said bunnies are quite sensible and won't go near it when on, I may have to have a re-think when winter comes.[/COLOR]
http://www.cheesebuerger.de/images/smilie/konfus/a035.gif Luckily there isn’t one where Henry’s pen is, it’s on the other wall but by putting the pen in it meant I couldn’t get to the only electrical socket in the room - another reason why I put up the wood pen walls, I didn’t want him frying himself one day.I put polystyrene packaging down the side of Henry’s pen just incase he jumped the wall, I was worried he’d crack his head on the laminate floor, I thought about a lot of safety hazards, shame I wasn’t so wary of the cat litter.I’ve taken out the polystyrene packaging now, when I get a new bunny it won’t try and jump the pen walls will it?
[COLOR="Red"]Biscuit hardly jumps any height at all, but I know many bunnies are great jumpers.[/COLOR]
http://www.cheesebuerger.de/images/smilie/konfus/a015.gif The pen walls are just above waist height on me, I’m 5 ft 4. I saw a bunny called Oliver at the rescue centre bounce right over breeze block walls at chest height with ease!He wanted to bonk female bunnies and just leapt from pen to pen.Henry wasn’t much of a jumper, he’d do about a foot, I never saw him jump onto anything much higher. Are different breeds more jumpy?Oliver had sticking up ears, lops look a bit fatter and less athletic don’t they?When I get another bunny I’ll try doing what I did with Henry and try to keep all cardboard boxes and wood boxes away from the sides of the pen so it doesn’t use them as a helping hand over the sides, I bet it would hurt landing if it got it’s back legs caught over the top.
Does Biscuit not chew the fabric stuff?
[COLOR="Red"]Bisuit's flooring is hardboard, so have covered carpet, she has a rug which she lays on which she doesn't chew, she also has a vet bed which she leaves alone. She sometimes has a crafty chew of her towel. But mainly she wants to distroy willow balls, and her cardboard box.[/COLOR]
http://www.cheesebuerger.de/images/smilie/konfus/c025.gif Do you think it’s dangerous of me to put in a footstool with fabric top (conveniently at head chewing height). Do you think stuffed toys are not a good idea?The woman at the rescue centre seemed to give toys to bunnies not paired up as company for them so I presumed it was fine.
How long each day do you spend with Biscuit?I spent 20 mins in a morning cleaning up Henry’s pen, feeding him and giving him a good bye stroking before I went to work each morning and then on a night I’d usually be with him 1 and a half hours, part of that time cleaning up again, the rest spent stroking him and maybe reading him a magazine or something depending on if he was being unsociable or not.
[COLOR="Red"]In the morning while I get ready for work at about 6am I let Biscuit out of her room until I leave at 7.45am, I clean her litter tray, get her veg, while she follows me up and down the stairs and runs around our bedroom. I then either shut her in her room when I leave or if she is flat out in our bedroom I leave her there so my hubby can sort when he wakes up (she hates his snorning).[/COLOR]
[COLOR="Red"]My hubby is a taxi driver so is home most days, and lets her run around house if she wants to, but mainly she dozes for most of the day.
I get back home at 5.30, let her out, but she doesn't normally appear downstairs to get her veg until about 8pm, then last night she watched TV with me until midnight.
But it can vary we may go out in the evening so we feed her beforehand and have to give her lots of fuss on our return.[/COLOR]
http://www.cheesebuerger.de/images/smilie/froehlich/k015.gif If he was in one of his running away moods then I’d read.Weekends I’d have more time to kill.
What’s an ice pod?
An ice pod is the pink thing in my pics, you can find them in the larger pet stores, you put in freezer overnight then give to bunny during a hot day, Biscuit lays her paws and head on it.
I must admit his room did get humid in the hot spell we had a few weeks ago, mind you it was hot everywhere.
[COLOR="Red"]When it was really hot we had frozen plastic bottles around her room, her windows open (if there was any wind), curtains drawn, fan on and icepod on floor, cold veg and ice cubes in her water bowl.[/COLOR]
http://www.cheesebuerger.de/images/smilie/konfus/a050.gif & I deliberately avoided taking him out to my mum’s to his old outdoor pen at that time because I thought he’d get heatsroke in the sun what with him not being used to sun for so long. I don’t have a fan I could use but if I got another bunny I’d consider taking it downstairs on a night which would be a bit cooler. If you look on my first pen picture there’s a white box behind the pink one, that’s a £30 indoor rabbit box which I got for Henry with the intention that I could move him around the house and he could spend more time with me but he absolutely hated it.I tried several times to get him used to the living room whilst I watched TV, I had the sound down and tried stroking him in it but he was scared stiff, I think it may have been the flashing light of the TV that scared him I’m not sure.Are bunnies usually scared of TVs?
[COLOR="Red"]Biscuit took a long time to venture from her room, but with a few rasins and plantain, she took a few steps downstairs, then into the living room. She doesn't venture into the kitchen and we have bunny tunnels around the house so if she gets scared she can zoom into one of those. Biscuit has a radio on during the day so is used to voices and the TV no longer bothers her.[/COLOR]
http://www.cheesebuerger.de/images/smilie/konfus/a040.gif Anyway, if Henry had of enjoyed trips downstairs I’d have had him down with me on a night for a bit which would have helped a bit with the heat on extremely humid days.
Why are magazines not good for bunnies?That could be a problem if I have to do away with them. Those photos were taken when he first moved to my house, over the months I put down more and more magazines because of his mucky bottom problem, it was a lot easier to just bin the top layers of magazines daily than to scrub the floor or ruin perfectly nice pieces of large cardboard. Try newspaper It would be fabulous to get a bunny who doesn’t leave a mess wherever he sits but I was just going to carry on the Heat magazine tradition and cover the floor again with mags. I also thought it would be fun for chewing without injury.I did try with newspaper once but it made Henry’s paws all black and he’d lick them, I thought the ink may not be good for him so stopped.Henry never swallowed any paper BTW, he just enjoyed ripping things I’d just neatly laid down.
Bet it costs more though.Unless a FREE RANGE house bunny I would always keep bunnies in pairs or groups.
I used to have 3 bunnies and now I have 5! Cleaning takes no longer
There’s farms nearby although I’ve never spoken to the owners.Not to worry, yes try to find timothy hay which isn't dusty but is nice and dry and smells sweet not mouldy. Do you have a farm nearby maybe they have some hay?
Yeah I don’t really have outside space at my house either for a bunny. Well I could buy a mesh ark and sit it on the grass but I couldn’t just let one loose in either the back or front garden as it could escape easily. But my mum’s pen lays empty so I may as well just take it up there for days out.Biscuit is lucky to have our space room but she unfortunely doesn't have any outside space at the moment.
Yeah come to think of it Henry did used to scratch and dig at my laminate floor, the little devil.Biscuit is lucky to have our space room but she unfortunely doesn't have any outside space at the moment.
It’s a good job bunnies ain’t like iguanas then and can burn themselves to death.We only moved in a couple of months ago so have not had heating on yet, I did ask on here about radiator covers, but the majority of people said bunnies are quite sensible and won't go near it when on, I may have to have a re-think when winter comes.
Gees, I hope the new one or two won’t hurt themselves at my place.Biscuit hardly jumps any height at all, but I know many bunnies are great jumpers.
I’ve never tried willow balls before. Henry had a wood chew block but he never chewed it since we moved home, it just got covered in fur and became a health hazard so it’s just as well.Bisuit's flooring is hardboard, so have covered carpet, she has a rug which she lays on which she doesn't chew, she also has a vet bed which she leaves alone. She sometimes has a crafty chew of her towel. But mainly she wants to distroy willow balls, and her cardboard box.
I suppose I could leave the foot stool out of the pen and just bring it in when I’m about.Maybe if it has a foam type filling this wouldn't be ideal
Henry attacked Patch quite a bit, I had to sew him up, but he loved his toy to death, he was often licking him.Just keep an eye to see if bunny starts chewing soft toy if he does then remove it, Biscuit has never had one.
Uwe.In the morning while I get ready for work at about 6am I let Biscuit out of her room until I leave at 7.45am, I clean her litter tray, get her veg, while she follows me up and down the stairs and runs around our bedroom. I then either shut her in her room when I leave or if she is flat out in our bedroom I leave her there so my hubby can sort when he wakes up (she hates his snorning).
It sounds more convenient for a bunny to live like a child, I always found it hard to fit in eating, watching telly, and spending time in Henry’s room on weekday nights. I’d go to bed at around 10.30pm – 11pm and get up each day at 5.55am and that would leave me knackered by Friday.My hubby is a taxi driver so is home most days, and lets her run around house if she wants to, but mainly she dozes for most of the day.
I get back home at 5.30, let her out, but she doesn't normally appear downstairs to get her veg until about 8pm, then last night she watched TV with me until midnight.
But it can vary we may go out in the evening so we feed her beforehand and have to give her lots of fuss on our return.
An amazing contraption!An ice pod is the pink thing in my pics, you can find them in the larger pet stores, you put in freezer overnight then give to bunny during a hot day, Biscuit lays her paws and head on it.
You put in a lot of effort.When it was really hot we had frozen plastic bottles around her room, her windows open (if there was any wind), curtains drawn, fan on and icepod on floor, cold veg and ice cubes in her water bowl.
I picked up Henry and carried him into my bedroom once and he panicked like mad, I had to take him right out, his heart was pounding so hard.Biscuit took a long time to venture from her room, but with a few rasins and plantain, she took a few steps downstairs, then into the living room. She doesn't venture into the kitchen and we have bunny tunnels around the house so if she gets scared she can zoom into one of those. Biscuit has a radio on during the day so is used to voices and the TV no longer bothers her.
I don’t mind leaving an area for attacking,Newspaper is slightly less harmful if they are into shreading, although most people on here would suggest a large cardboard box filled with hay instead.
OK, can do.Try newspaper
Flies are barred from my house.Biscuit very rarely has a runny bottom problem so really look into what you are feeding your future bunny, as this isn't normal and can cause fly strike.
Henry’s white paws went pretty black even after short periods on newspaper.Oh I see, silly bunnyMy first bunny used to have perm black paws, luckily touch wood Biscuit has been fine and very clean, only using her litter tray.
You’re nice mimi.hi sue :wave:sorry to hear about your bunny henry.he was gorgeous and i bet he was very happy in his room.i have lost 4 buns in the past 2 years and it is so heart breaking.every time i have wracked my brains thinking the 'what ifs'and 'was there anything else i could have done' sadly bunnys' are very delicate animals and can get very poorly very quickly.there is not much anyone can say to make you feel better at a time like this.however,as i'm sure you have already found,there are lots of lovely people here who will always be here with kind words of support.hope you're feeling better soon.x
I think the cost would have been worth knowing now.Hi Sue :wave: Sorry to hear about Henry he was a beautiful bunny As many others have said, the only way you wouldve known what he died from was a PM
Ah, I should have said I only introduced Henry to fruity mix about 6 months before he died. He had his problem bottom from day one of having him 2 years ago.With regards to the runny bottom Henry used to have... i see you used to feed him a fruity mix?
I couldn’t get him to eat the hay, really I couldn’t.Its best to keep bunnies on a 80% hay diet, then the other 20% made up with a small amount of pellets (science selective or excel)
I’d usually flick out apple pips if they were visable but leave to odd one occasionally. He’d manage to avoid eating them anyway. Is that because they cause blockages?and then veg. also... buns cant have any fruit that has a stone in it :?
Yeah I figured they liked the green stuff better. He didn’t get many plums and it was only in plum season anyway, i.e. he never ate one before his death because they weren’t ready.I saw u mentioned plums. Its best to stick to green veg, cabbage, spring greens, cauli leaves etc
I wish I’d thought of joining a rabbit forum when I actually had a rabbit.Hope this helps. Glad youve found the forum, you'll learn lots here xXx
I’ve just been thinking more about what Morrisons said was in the cat litter.BTW – Morrisons got back to me today about my enquiry about is their Value cat litter made from clay.The answer: - it’s magnesium tricilicate clay that will clump. Also it has an anti bacterial agent in it and yep, it’s defo not good for it to be digested.