Harloe has anxiety?

[Heather]

My female rabbit was fixed about three weeks ago, and she’s been doing well since except lately. I had surgery on my foot last week and she since has been digging a hole to bunny China in her litter pan. I don’t just mean a little digging, and chewing (oh!!! the loud obnoxious plastic cracking chewing) she’s doing this for hours. I noticed towards the end of last week when I moved her into my bed room, (coincidentally I’m not too sure, but it’s the room I’m staying in) she’s stopped. Usually my rabbit are the kind that will nudge ever once a month to be loved but are really not “lovey” rabbits (which I’ve always been terribly sad about). I moved her last weekend back into the kitchen/office where my fiance and I spend most of our time when I’m not bed ridden, but she started chewing agian, so this morning I had to move her cage across the floor with crutches and one foot, she looked kind of like “Stop the eartquake mom!” but I was too irrated about the half of a litter pan she was missing to care. lol So my problems are: my male rabbits cage is too big to fit right now in to the bedroom, and he’s much to big to move from room to room according to where I’m spending the most time (I’m going to bond them although I haven’t started since her surgery and mine), and I don’t want him to be jealous she’s getting more attention then he is. I also can’t have her digging and pawing everytime I leave the house, the plastic isn’t healthy and although she’s spitting some of it out I’m sure she’s swallowing it also. She was digging and chewing on it some before she got fixed but usually I can water gun her and she’d stop, but lately that isn’t getting her to stop and I’m not going to hose her down with the water bottle, I think it’s mean. I’ve put new toys in there and a cardboard tube that is edible that I cleverly zip tied to her cage and she loves it and she chews it but she’ll chew the pan in the morning and at night, even on the days when she’s been out a lot and exhausted what you’d think would be all her little body can hold of energy. Also it doesn’t matter how clean the pan is either, she’ll do it to a brand new pan just as fast as a dirty pan. Thanks for being my little bunny encyclopedias!

[Furface]

I have one that does this too so I’ll be watching this thread for ideas.
I’ve been looking for an appropriately sized glass cooking pan but am having no luck finding one.
No I’m not going to cook the bun. LOL
I’m going to use it for a litter box, unless someone has a better idea.
I’m thinking that a metal pan might rust so glass would be better.
I’m also thinking that chewing on the glass probably isn’t good for his teeth but ingesting the plastic litter box can’t be good for his digestive system.

[DeVaStAt0r]

this may sound a silly request but maybe try a different litter or a different color of litter.

my gizmo will go crazy unless he has blue litter, couldn’t tell you why!

[Barbie]

What about using a cardboard box? At least then if she chews and digs at it, it won’t be as bad for her as plastic. I know it’s probably not a practical long term solution because once it gets soaked through, you’ll have to replace it, but maybe just until you can find a glass oven dish large enough? Check with your liquor store or grocery store to get some cardboard boxes. If you can get it, I’d suggest the corrugated cardboard, not the thin stuff like soda cans and cereal is packaged in. If you put down lots of news paper and a decent amount of litter, I would think it should be ok for a few days.

[Heather]

I like the cardboard box idea. I think that will be the next thing I try. We were gone from the house all day together and she’d dug a significant amount of litter out of her pan, and it’s so chewed up it’d be hard to tell if she ate another hole out of it. lol I don’t know why she has such poor litter pan habits, Huey is great with his pan… Her also always seems to stay wetter I wonder if that’s because she’s a she and he’s a he. I wonder if the glass pan would work because they are both known for moving their litter pans if they aren’t tied down to something, and I’m not sure there would be any way to tie that down. Ugh! my bratty kids, that I love way more then I should

[RabbitPam]

I’ve noticed in the pet stores and some of the general, Target type stores, that they have some disposable litter pans. They seem to be made out of thick, soft paper that’s possibly recycled. It may be worth a try to get a stack of those until you are back to normal and can deal with it more easily.

Kittys Wonderbox is one kind.

 

[Heather]

will those hurt her if she eats them? (lol as she’s eating plastic right )

[bunnytowne]

I have seen those disposable litterboxes at the pet store too.  I don’t think chewing it would hurt or her eating a little bit.  Hmm.  I wonder what they are made of.  Probably a thin cardboard stuff.

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