ldoerr
Well-Known Member
So as most of you know I built a new cage a couple of weeks ago. I also got my rabbits living together (bonded) on Saturday night. My problem is that Beauty will not jump down from the shelf in Shiny Things cage (the top cage). I have it so that they can go between the 2 cages fairly easily (1 grid jump). They both seem to spend their ENTIRE time on the shelf in the top cage. Beauty will not jump down from the shelf at all. (all levels/shelves are spaced 1 grid). When Beauty was kept in the bottom cage she would not jump down on her own. I ended up having to make an extintion of the cage and add a box so that she could jump down. I eventually took the cage extention off because it seemed as though she was able to get down (and because I could not get to the top cage). The reason I know that she can not get down is that she is peeing and pooping all over the fleece on the shelf. SHe is normally 100% with pee and 95% with poop. I did end up adding a box to the top cage a couple of days ago to see if she would be able to get down with that, but it has not helped. It actually seems to make it so that Shiny Things can not get down. Any thoughts on how I can get her to come down? I have in the mean time added a litter box water bowl and some hay to the shelf so that she will be ok. I do not have enough grids to make an extention of the cage like before.