No problem, Pam, I think it’s a good place for this discussion. Thanks for bringing it up.
I personally would not, as you can see in the diagrams on the boxes, place the ramps so that they have to be reached one from the other, I don’t think that’s sturdy enough. I think this configuration is just for agile creatures like ferrets. So I do make sure that each ramp is a level at which the bunny can comfortably leap to and from, in case they are skittish of the ramp, knowing that if they were to hit too hard this could cause spinal or leg damage that may not be repairable.
Mimzy’s cage came with the ramp and shelf (which, btw, has a bunny’s head-sized hole for the sunken food dish that also came with it…which bothers me because I am always afraid he’ll hang himself on it when the bowl’s not there) and I just had to clip the ramp on and shove it to the far side, or back, of the cage so that he could scoot down it and leap up onto the shelf without it being in the way and cutting off the center of the pen. (Mimzy only uses the ramp for the down, never the up.) I put it up a little lower than the directions suggest, which I think, again, is mostly intended for ferrets who can leap to greater heights easier than bunnies.
Mimzy’s shelf is approximately six bars up on the cage in height. I figure that’s (eyeballing it) and 7-8 inches from the bottom of the cage. He manages it quite well and, we even watch him to see when he’s ready to get down and say things like, “Bunny go WHEEE!” and then he’ll dramatically slide down and turn around to face us for cheers and praise.
Even with the smallest of litterboxes (rectangular) I admit that there is then not much stopping room. But Mimzy has adapted to it and, of course for real exercise he goes out into the xpen which is all floor level. He also loves his shelf for sleeping on, and stretches full length with his face in the direction of where I sleep to watch me at night. Now that he has the extra shelf (with the ramp on the opposite wall from the other setup so it doesn’t cut off any more floor room) he actually prefers that one because it is closer to my face. If I put his plushie apple and carrot up there, he makes a big show of flinging and rolling them both down the ramp so that there is an unobstructed view of Mummy. ^_^ It’s quite funny actually.

Now with Pip, since her pen didn’t come with these accessories, I placed the new shelf (and none of these, btw, have the feeder bowl divit for some reason, but you can see the line drawn in it where the factory could ‘stamp’ it out if it was required to do so) on the same level as Mimzy’s, but I think today I will have to lower it a bar or two, because that really is too high for her. You can see when she gets up on it (which she did rather noisily several times last night) that she looks around with a bit of a phobic look in her eye that she’s so high up. She loves that it is a nice hiding spot underneath it, but navigating the shelf and ramp are proving to be a bit dicey for her. No worries, even if I lower it, the rest of her pen is quite roomy, even though it should be the same area as Mimzy’s, but for some reason looks bigger. But she also prefers to pop her binkies in the xpen and will be VERY cranky if she doesn’t get that regular time out in it. So I am very well trained in that regard. Her pen is very much her ‘hidey-spot’…not necessarily a place for running and jumping. This was why I was considering making them condos from NIC cubes because I was kind of disgusted at the initial size of these ‘super pens’. I am definitely going to need something bigger for the both of them if they ever bond well enough to share a room.

I don’t know if anything I said made it clear at all, and I apologize. I’ll be sure to get those piccies so you guys can see how the buns love their ‘perches’. Needless to say, I make very sure that whatever is in their cage only makes them comfortable and doesn’t endanger them in any way, especially if I have to be out for several hours and can’t watch them personally.

Here we go guys. Please excuse the double post and the crummy pix…best I could do.
Note that the positions of both bunnies indicate ‘disapproval pending’, since mommy attacked them with the flashy box again! >.<

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