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Well, I’ve met a few of you in a couple other threads (and skibunny8503 and her husband in person) and I got to say that you people are the best. Instead of adding on to your threads I figured I start a new one.
My wife and I wanted to adopt another bunny after losing our Trixie not too long ago.
I searched Petfinder and seen a bunch of sweeties at Judges Park, which is about 100 miles away. So we drove out there last Friday (4/24) and chose not one but two bunnies to adopt. Addie and Benjie. They aren’t bonded yet, but they are spayed and neutered. So the easy part is done.
Jen said Addie already had an appointment set up to have her staples removed, so she’s not bringing the bunnies until this Friday (5/1). Part of the adoption process is that we go to the rescue to adopt and then the rescue brings the bunnies to our home.
So, although it’s sad that we have to wait, atleast it gives us time to set up a bigger enclosure for the bunnies when we’re not home. You can kind of see the enclosure we had for Trixie in the picture above. Yes… I know it’s small. But she was RARILY left in it. She mainly only went in there to go potty and to eat (when she wasn’t on the couch eating off our plates). Other than that she had the run of the house.
So upon advice from skibunny, we went to Target to see it we could find the storage cubes. We did find these. There’s enough to make six cubes and it was only $16.99 a box. So we grabbed four boxes. Two blue and two black.
It wasn’t until we got home and opened the box that we noticed the grids used two different sized spacing. I wasn’t sure what to do at first. But I realized that I could use the wide grids for the floors and for the side which goes up against the wall, the the smaller grids for everywhere else.
So we got the enclosure assembled, minus the door. I use subflooring and cut out squares to use for the cage floor. When I assembled the wire floor, I positioned the panels with the thin wire facing down. That way the wood floor (it’s thin) sit right in the wire floor. I drilled holes in each wood piece so I could secure it to the wire with zip ties.
In one of the floors on the top level I added a piece of ceramic tile which was left over from when we recently retiled our entrance way. I know how bunnies like to lay on the cool tile when they’re warm, I thought I’d try this to see if they’d use it. I still have to lay some type of carpeting down and I’ll just cut it to leave the tile open.
So, the enclosure isn’t done yet, but this isn’t too bad for a days work. I still got to add support in the middle, finish the ramps, add carpet, build a house, and other little odds and ends. Using two boxes, we had enough panels to build this, I have four panels to make a door, and we’ll still have five panels left over after that. Of course… I have to add to the top level to keep any jump-happy bunnies from flying.
And of course… now that I’m sitting here typing this, it just dawned on me that Addie and Benjie are not bonded yet. Now I got to make another enclosure.
I’ll keep this thread updated.
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When building our condo we had 6 bunnies – one set of 4 that was bonded and one set of 2 that was bonded. We really, really wanted to try and bond all 6 of them together so when I built the condo I basically made one big one with a divider wall between the 2 halves. The plan was that it would allow them to get used to being close to each other, and after they were bonded the middle wall could be removed. Well they never did bond, Keelie is just very particular about who she likes (almost no one) and who she doesn’t.
You may find that you don’t need the ramps there. When I made our first little wooden bunny condo (now part of the big wire condo) I put a ramp in there, but they seem happier just jumping from level to level.
Anyway, in case you’re interested this is our setup:
– Annette
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Yes, thanks for the picture. I’m sure we will be rebuilding it more than once. I wanted it bigger than this to start with, but I had to leave it like that because of it being near a air vent (can see it between the cage and dog dishes). We have a 90 gallon saltwater reef tank that I’m now selling just so we can use that space for the bunnies. We don’t have to sell it… we want to sell it.
You know… because a bunny enclosure will look soo much better than a reef tank.
But seriously, we do want them to be as comfortable as possible.
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That looks great! I love the flooring. Doh, I forgot about the different cubes for Target!
We have mostly the gray cubes from BB&B but the blue ones we used for a fence. Archie & Gracie can get their heads through a bit but Parsnip actually put her little body all the way through haha! You can also probably use the bigger ones for a roof too. Yes def. keep their cages next to each other, just don’t keep them to close in case they try to nip each other from the grids. Depends on the rabbit, I know mine liked ramps more than jumping up. Archie likes jumping but Gracie’s bigger so jumping is a little harder to do. Benji’s pretty big, so he might be better with ramps, but you never know.
I keep an eye on Jen’s status on facebook. So far nothing about a sucessful bond yet but hopefully they’ll be bonded by Friday *fingers cross*
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Alright… let’s see where I left off. I did end up with a buyer for my saltwater tank and he picked it up Wednesday, so that gave us more room for their enclosure. AND of course, when I go to move it we realize it’s just barely too big to fit through the door frame.
So I ended up tearing it all down.So now they have a new setup. Jen from Judges Park brought Benjie and Addie on Friday. We put them in the enclosure and Benjie went straight in to hiding. Addie started going to town on the food. From what I understand, Addie was just given up because her owners didn’t want her. She’s under a year old. Benjie is around two years old. Someone had just thrown him outside to fend for himself.
“That long trip made me thursty.”
“Pose for the camera… it ain’t happening!”
” Alright then, I’ll come out for pictures.”
“Good… while their eye’s are on Addie, I’m gonna slowly sneak off and hide elsewhere.”
“CHEEEEZZZZZEEE”
“That’s it… keep your eye’s on Addie… OHHH, BUSTED!”
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Beautiful pair! Worth all the reconstruction efforts, right? Addie looks so much like Rabbitpams Sammykins!! Love Benji’s colour and square little face. Congratulations on getting them home at last. Look forward to hearing more about them.
btw, when bunnytowne refers to “Bunny puddle” I think she’s meaning Trixie’s pose in the pictuce (bunny puddle or pancake) not the other kind of puddle
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I lke the divider idea-that may work for you to quickly adapt it for two bunnies 
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