How many times have you forgot to lock up your rabbit's cage?

[larryng]

I had my rabbit Peanut for over three and a half years now and I only forgot to lock her cage just ONCE.

I was home at the time and noticed her scurrying in her room and I put her back in her cage.

Besides bunny "proofing" the room, does anyone here have ideas or product that help you to remember to lock the rabbit cage?

 

[pani]

I don't think I've ever forgotten, but there have been a few escapes!

Sometimes Clementine will get hangry or bored and just shove the cage door open with her teeth (it's a NIC cage, at the time it was 'locked' shut with a small bulldog clip - there are 3 on there now!). Once Felix was in a pen covered in a blanket overnight, and somehow jumped out and was hiding under the coffee table when we got up. Another time I went to let the buns out of the cage, which was still closed, and Felix came up from behind me to say hi.

:?

 

[Nancy McClelland]

I think you should give her to Nancy and Larry--problem solved! Seriously, we used to use big, brightly colored colored close pins--a little more effort but harder to forget.

 

[larryng]

Larry can you please explain how you did it and how it helped you not forget to lock the cage door?

 

[Nancy McClelland]

Used wooden clothes pins to secure the door or else Mr B would lift his latch and get out--knew I had to use the pins on the top and bottom, so it was hard to forget and if I did he was out and on the windowsill--he was a Dwarf so he wasn't able to displace the pins.

 

[MiniLopMad]

I have forgotten a few times, but very rarely do my bunnies actually leave their cages. I used to have a bunny named Chilli, who could open doors to almost all of his cages!

To remember, I use these bright red clips. I can't remember what they are called sorry

 

[MissyAndMoonlight]

I have forgotten on a few occasions to close up the cage. Only once or twice tho. What I do is use twisty- ties to secure doors that they can open. Also, so u don't forget to close the cage again, and then have myself wondering if I shut t or not, I have a rock that goes on the top of the cage, that I put on when I am closing up. It's pretty easy to remember weather or not you lifted a very heave object. I also but a note on the door simply saying "cage?" Or "cage closed?". Just so I can double check and reassure myself.