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Forum HOUSE RABBIT Q & A Emergency Bunny Preparation (housing + necessities)

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    • pnwk
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        I already have an XL dog kennel that I will be using as her main cage (she is a small sized rabbit, I’d say about 5 pounds) and today will buy some of those cubes or a pen for a little play area around the cage that she can always have access to. My cousin has a farm and rolls their own hay for their horses, so I have access to it. A water bottle (or is a bowl better?) a litter box, and a little hide area. 

        What kind of staple food should I buy? 

        What kind of litter do I use?

        What kind of bedding should I cover the floor with? There is of course a plastic, removal bottom on the kennel, and I put down some extra carpet in her area so if she ruins it it can be cleaned. 

        Should I buy small animal flea spray? (seen on petsmart website) 


        Anything else?


      • MoveDiagonally
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          Water bowls are usually better than bottle. You want to get something bottom heavy so they don’t tip it over though. A cat sized litter box is best. The smaller corner ones aren’t usually great.

          You want a plain high quality pellet, no mixes. Oxbow is a popular choice. You don’t want to cover the floor with bedding, it makes litter training pretty impossible, just use it in the litter box. You can lay down blankets or towels though. I use pine pellets for my litter boxes which you can buy at hardware stores or feed stores (wood stove pellets, equine pine, ect…). They’re really cheap about $4 or less for 50lbs.

          I wouldn’t buy a flea spray. Some flea treatments aren’t really safe for bunnies and it’s not really necessary to treat them unless they have fleas.

          Hope that helped!


        • MoveDiagonally
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            Oh! And the BB bunny cost list can work as a checklist as well. It has all the basic bunny supplies on there.

            https://binkybunny.com/BUNNYINFO/tabid/53/CategoryID/4/PID/940/Default.aspx


          • Mocha
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              Water Bowls are generally better than bottles. Choose something heavy like ceramic.
              Dont’ cover the floor in bedding. Use a litterbox (biggest cat sized one). I just use newspaper and lots of hay and sometiems carefresh. You can use fleece, bedsheets, or towels as bedding.
              I wouldn’t buy flea spray. I’ve never had a flea problem, and you wouldn’t need it unless your bunny had fleas. I use flea combs.


            • LongEaredLions
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                Hay should be main diet, for pellets, go for a very small daily amount of a high quality pellet food such as oxbow. You also will need to slowly introduce veggies.
                For litter, you can use pine pellets, paper pellets, aspen shavings, carefresh, or something similar. Never use pine/cedar/softwood shavings(pine pellets are ok), corn cob, or cat litter.
                Bedding is not a good idea out of the box. It can confuse them on where to toilet. Once she is litter trained, you can put down some carpet or fleece if you want.
                Don’t buy the flea spray. Depending on where she is coming from, she does likely have some sore of bugs, but nobody knows what’s in that stuff at the petstore. If you do end up needing it, get some good ivermectin or revolution, but never frontline.
                Most bunnies prefer bowls to bottles as they are more natural.

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