kukupecpec
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Hey there!
I am a new bunny owner and I have two baby rabbit mixes named Bugsy and Dipsy. Bugsy - the white one, her butts not dirty, she has some cute little caramel spots on her - loves people and head rubs! Dipsy could really care less about people but LOVES to throw paper balls up in the air and run circles around it before doing it again.
I had a couple of questions - I had rabbits many years ago as a very small child but I know that there are so many awesome things out there these days I wanted to suck in some of your expert rabbit knowledge.
I know a lot of people are against outdoor rabbits, but when mine are all grown, they will live in the large chicken coop runs with the chickens. I live in Tucson AZ so the heat is pretty intense but I have known many people to do just fine with ample shade and big frozen two liters to lay against during the days. Our winters are not so bad, and they will have lots of places to bury and I have small cookie tin homemade heaters the chickens sit on so will be making those for the bunnies when the time comes for it.
My questions today are about housing indoors. They are too small to be safe outside, so they are in a petstore cage (i know they are too small for permanent and all day homes) in my bedroom. I found that pine chips I was using on their floor was too messy so we have switched to hay. They get fresh alfalfa daily, but we use the leftover stuff as the floor covering. It stinks a lot worse than the chips since it can't really suck it up. I'm trying to find a not too messy and not too stinky way to cover their boring plastic floor so they don't just sit in their filth.
The next question I have is about litter training. I've collected all kinds of ideas on this, but it seems the consensus is to put the litter box in the corner they pee is. My bunnies are only about 12 weeks old. They don't seem to prefer one place over the other. They see to just pee everywhere. Will this change with age? Or is there something I need to be doing for them so I can be able to liter train them?
I would also really like to take them out more to play and spend time with us humans, but they pee everywhere! I don;t mind the little bunny poops, I just pick them all up when they go back to their cage. Is there anything I Can do about the urination all over the place? What do you do so they don't pee on your carpet and furniture? I was thinking about getting a plastic bed sheet to put on so I can wipe it up before it soaks into my mattress an sleeping sheets, but I don;t want to have to plastic cover everywhere they want to hang out.
And last - they have started to chew. They have a little wooden hut they hide in, and they are chewing off all the corners. I was wondering if there are any good chew things I can make for them at home? Or if there are any good things for them I should pick up from the pet store. And if there is anything that i need to avoid letting them chew on. I give them different things to play with everyday like toilet paper rolls and balls of paper and paper bags that they toss around and hop on and chew and shred, but I want to make sure I get them something good and hard to help keep their teeth from getting unhealthily long.
Any help would be greatly appreciated by my babies!
I am a new bunny owner and I have two baby rabbit mixes named Bugsy and Dipsy. Bugsy - the white one, her butts not dirty, she has some cute little caramel spots on her - loves people and head rubs! Dipsy could really care less about people but LOVES to throw paper balls up in the air and run circles around it before doing it again.
I had a couple of questions - I had rabbits many years ago as a very small child but I know that there are so many awesome things out there these days I wanted to suck in some of your expert rabbit knowledge.
I know a lot of people are against outdoor rabbits, but when mine are all grown, they will live in the large chicken coop runs with the chickens. I live in Tucson AZ so the heat is pretty intense but I have known many people to do just fine with ample shade and big frozen two liters to lay against during the days. Our winters are not so bad, and they will have lots of places to bury and I have small cookie tin homemade heaters the chickens sit on so will be making those for the bunnies when the time comes for it.
My questions today are about housing indoors. They are too small to be safe outside, so they are in a petstore cage (i know they are too small for permanent and all day homes) in my bedroom. I found that pine chips I was using on their floor was too messy so we have switched to hay. They get fresh alfalfa daily, but we use the leftover stuff as the floor covering. It stinks a lot worse than the chips since it can't really suck it up. I'm trying to find a not too messy and not too stinky way to cover their boring plastic floor so they don't just sit in their filth.
The next question I have is about litter training. I've collected all kinds of ideas on this, but it seems the consensus is to put the litter box in the corner they pee is. My bunnies are only about 12 weeks old. They don't seem to prefer one place over the other. They see to just pee everywhere. Will this change with age? Or is there something I need to be doing for them so I can be able to liter train them?
I would also really like to take them out more to play and spend time with us humans, but they pee everywhere! I don;t mind the little bunny poops, I just pick them all up when they go back to their cage. Is there anything I Can do about the urination all over the place? What do you do so they don't pee on your carpet and furniture? I was thinking about getting a plastic bed sheet to put on so I can wipe it up before it soaks into my mattress an sleeping sheets, but I don;t want to have to plastic cover everywhere they want to hang out.
And last - they have started to chew. They have a little wooden hut they hide in, and they are chewing off all the corners. I was wondering if there are any good chew things I can make for them at home? Or if there are any good things for them I should pick up from the pet store. And if there is anything that i need to avoid letting them chew on. I give them different things to play with everyday like toilet paper rolls and balls of paper and paper bags that they toss around and hop on and chew and shred, but I want to make sure I get them something good and hard to help keep their teeth from getting unhealthily long.
Any help would be greatly appreciated by my babies!