Posted By Mr.Bill on 04/25/2009 11:57 AM

Ah yes… I was logging on to post, asking if you had some pictures using the cubes. I’d love to get some good ideas. Jen is bringing Benjie and Addie on Friday. It’s going to be a LONG week. At least that will give us time to set up proper enclosures for them. I’ve even decided to sell our saltwater reef tank so I’ll have more room for a large bunny enclosure. Anything for the bun-bun’s.

Yep… I’m a bunaholic. So now, what are the 12 steps?

 

 

 

  Well at least you can admit to it; that’s the first step  Depending on how Jen gets them bonded, you’ll probalby have to start off with 2 cages.  She’ll be lucky if she gets them bonded in a week, but it depends on the rabbits.  There’s a lot of good advice on the Bonding forum and if you have any trouble to ask there.  It’s a difficult process sometimes but once they’re bonded it’s cute!  Archie and Gracie are always by each other’s side.  It took 2 weeks for ours to get bonded and I’m not a very patient person haha! 

I didn’t realize how big Benji was!  Online pictures never do justice.  I was almost tempted to get midnight too, rexes are so soft! 

I don’t have a picture of the two cages we did but each was basically 2 wide x 2 tall x 3 length.  We had  alittle ramp and made a second story.  Don’t ask us how we find the room, bunnies are basiclaly taking over our house haha! 

We always stock up on zip ties….Ace Hardware probably wonders why we’re always buying them   Sometimes we’ll use a dowl rod for extra support on another level.  And for the ramps (depending on the rabbit; ours liked ramps and not so much hoping up all the time) we used pieces of carpeting and zip tied them onto a grid. 

We have one of those big rubbermaid litter boxes (for cats); we got at Petsmart.  It’s pretty big and should fit both of them in it.  But have to get 2 litter boxes when they’re seperated.

This was Archie’s second cage (when we found out how cool NIC cubes were).  We punched holes into the cardboard cottage and put a ramp onto it.  We had a grass mat on his ramp but once we got Gracie, since she’s heavier and bigger, she kept sliding down the ramp   So carpet was better traction for her. 

This is their cage now.  We actually had to set up another grid by the bookself because daredevil Archie decided to hop over it and onto the bookshelf that has figurines!    We had to put a blanket down because Gracie liked to try and eat the linolium over there.  The hay racks are actually toliet paper holders that you can buy in pretty much any bath section.  We had to put cardboard up because they were getting hay all over the outside of the cage.  Oh and those blue grids go around the blanket when it’s shut.  It acted as a gate for us because we didn’t want them getting into the office part of the room….or what’s left of the office

The blue grids we got from target and gray are from Bed bath and beyond but like we said, we don’t think they’re restocking…they have about maybe 6 packs left in Boardman, OH.  there’s 14 grids in a back I think. 

Wow what a beautiful fish tank!  Too bad you had to sell it but you’ll enjoy having those two bundles of fluff

Parsnip is still getting used to her setup.  We just have her in Archie’s FIRST cage which was one of those smaller ones that you buy at a petshop and put grids around it (kind of like Otto’s setup).  We zip tied a grid to the ramp going out of the cage and put carpet on it to act as a ramp.  She’s still scared of us and will hid either under the ramp or in the ginger ale box hehe!  I think Archie knew something was going on and thumped a few times.  Nothing really fazes Gracie

She does look like Frankie!  Probably why I couldn’t resist!  She’s up for adoption   Well we’ll see, she is so cute