Hey all! So recently my rabbit has been having some pretty serious health issues (that we've been to a vet for and are on medication) and I'm trying to keep him as low stress as possible while he recovers. The problem is, he's a very messy boy. I'm not sure if his litterbox habits are a result of him being unfixed or if he's just messy in general but he uses the litterbox.... and also uses everything else. He's always been like this even before the medical issues, but he was keeping himself clean before and now he's not and hasn't been since he got ear mites a few months ago, I assume because he's unwell. His poor butt is absolutely raw and while I'm doing my best to keep him comfy, he's always wet because he actively soils his pen and then chooses sit on it and smush the waste into little patties with his butt.
He was in a solid pan dog kennel in which he pooped in but mostly kept his pee in the litterpan. He's moved to an xp pen during recovery that's bedding is fleece and he's now peeing and pooing everywhere. His fleece is changed every single day but the point remains, he's still getting very soiled and there's no way to keep him unsoiled unless I were to change his fleece every hour on the hour, that's how much he's soiling the fleece.
Does anyone have any suggestions to help keep him more dry and less soiled? I was honestly thinking something like horse pine pellets but I was hoping there was maybe a less messy alternative that wouldn't end up all over my room and still keep him dry and out of needing to have bum baths on top of being given medication and jabs everyday. I was also considering about buying some kind of grate and letting him live on grate with a resting board, but I'm unsure if this is a good idea. I know for a fact he would just soil the resting board and then still sit in the waste on the resting board, which I don't think would help the situation at all.
He was in a solid pan dog kennel in which he pooped in but mostly kept his pee in the litterpan. He's moved to an xp pen during recovery that's bedding is fleece and he's now peeing and pooing everywhere. His fleece is changed every single day but the point remains, he's still getting very soiled and there's no way to keep him unsoiled unless I were to change his fleece every hour on the hour, that's how much he's soiling the fleece.
Does anyone have any suggestions to help keep him more dry and less soiled? I was honestly thinking something like horse pine pellets but I was hoping there was maybe a less messy alternative that wouldn't end up all over my room and still keep him dry and out of needing to have bum baths on top of being given medication and jabs everyday. I was also considering about buying some kind of grate and letting him live on grate with a resting board, but I'm unsure if this is a good idea. I know for a fact he would just soil the resting board and then still sit in the waste on the resting board, which I don't think would help the situation at all.
