Hello! I do not live in the UK but I use pine shavings for my bunny although some bunnies are allergic to pine shavings so if you want to be safe you can use paper bedding. And put hay on top don’t worry about your bunny eating bad hay he/she will know it has urine on it and that he/she should not eat it. You can also get a hay rack but don’t buy those tiny plastic ones in the pet stores. They are much to small for a bunny. I use a hay bag you can make you’re own too but don’t use ceder its toxic for bunnies.

For cleaning your litter boxes I put paper at the bottom then the litter then the hay. I just dump the whole thing and repeat the process. You can clean it out with dish soap and warm water if you want. I do that every once in awhile but I usually just wipe it out with a paper towel. I hope this helps 🙂

Pine shavings are not safe for bunnies. The aromatic oils in the pine can be hard of the bun’s respiratory systems and can cause problems if the bun ever needs to go under anesthesia (something to do with the liver…). Aspen shavings are safe though, but are more expensive.

Pine pellets (on the other hand) are safe because they have been heat treated, which removes those aromatic oils. I use pine pellets because they work well and are very cheap (I buy them sold as horse stall bedding). I put a layer of pine pellets, then a layer of fluffy hay on top. I dump the whole thing every other day. I used to use a litter screen system and I would scoop out the wet areas, but I got lazy and realized I was doing all this extra work to save a very small amount of pellets.

Another popular option that works well for litter training is Care Fresh.

I had awful problems with my rabbit being allergic to almost all bedding options when he was a baby and regularly getting respiratory infections.

When I swapped to breeder celect the problems stopped. It’s a compressed newspaper pellet – no other chemicals. You won’t find it in the supermarket but can get it in Pets at home or amazon. It seems to hold smells pretty well and is also compostable. To clean out I dump the litter in to a bin, blast with the shower, swill, dump down the loo, repeat until clean (not spotless) and then refill with litter. When the litter bowl gets too calcium deposity on the bottom and looks really gross I replace it, it’s just a cheap washing up bowl. Despite not doing any hard scrubbing (although my shower is powerful) or using chemicals I don’t have smell issues.

don’t use sawdust or clumping cat litter it’s really bad for them.

@danaNM I am working on getting pellets now😀 thank you!

It all comes down to the bunny’s preference, right now I’m trying a new type of bedding every few weeks to see what is the most effective. Last month I used Carefresh, and this month I’m trying paper pellets. Next month I hope to try pine pellets as they seem much cheaper.

I think in the UK it’s maybe cheaper to get wood/pine pellets? You can buy them in bulk even in pet stores (advertised for cats but can use for rabbits) – they work really great.