Flooring options to prevent sore hocks

[busterbugs]

Buster is mostly a free-roam bunny, he goes inside his confined area at night and when noone is there to supervise him. His confined area is 4ft x 8ft and he has litter box, cardboard castle, and other stuff I try to make him destroy but he won’t . He’s a pretty good bunny.

The problem is (or potential problem), my whole house has granite flooring. I put several kids rubber playmat, covered them in fleece, on part of his cage, but Buster hates it. He would toss the fleece, and chew on the rubber playmat instead. And he never sleeps in his cardboard castle. He always sleeps on the granite flooring. Granted, he’s a lop and he’s pretty a chill bunny (not very active), but he does zooms and binkies around the house… albeit on rare occasion LOL. Will this be a problem as he practically never has cushion underneath his foot? I’m afraid he will get sore hocks, but he doesn’t seem to like any cushion I provide. I tried to put some area rug, he shows no special interest in hopping around on the rug/carpet.

Any advice? Should I just let him be what he is and just watch out for sore hocks?

[LittlePuffyTail]

Yes, I suggest monitoring for sore hocks regularly. All bun parents should do it routinely. Watch out for redness, inflammation, cracked or bleeding. Pink, hard callouses are fine and normal. Make sure to keep his nails as short as possible.

Lops usually have pretty furry feet but my lop has had sore hocks in the past despite a very cushy condo.

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