Hoppy’s Cage

[Hoppy Valentine]

This is Hoppy’s cage, any suggestions on more stuff for him to do in there?  My husband and I made the house for him he likes it but always lays on top of it and never goes inside it.  I want to make his cage more fun for him so he stops flipping over his pellet bowl.  I put it on  top of the house and he slides it off the top and makes a huge pellet mess.  I need suggestions please.  I have looked at the gallery but I can’t find anything I think would work for the size of his dog cage.  Thanks in advance…

[bunnyfriend]

A bowl that attatches to the cage might work (: My rabbit also likes to just sit on top of her hidey houses. Maybe they just feel more secure.

[Lintini]

Many members just spread the pellets around anyways to make the bunny have to work a bit more for the food instead of having it all in one place. Of course it doesn’t look as nice to us You could get a heavier ceramic bowl like you have his water in. Mine love dumping pellets too

[mocha200]

Mine kept dumping the pellets to so I just don’t use a dish any more As for not going in the house, some rabbits like to be up high to spot any danger or look at there surrounding instead of hiding.

I love how you thought to put coroplast on the sides of the cage! and I love the shelf thing you made. Could you attach some pictures of it from different angles? I wand to make a new wooden house because mine is to small for my buns.

On how to make the cage more interesting, I find that my bunnies love it when I change the layout of there cage! Then they can re explore it! Also switch there toys after they have been in there for a few days.

[LoveChaCha]

I just toss the 1 tablespoon of pellets around the living room.

Where is Hoppy’s hay?

[mocha200]

LoveChaCha: The hay is in a hay rack up on the shelf

[Hoppy Valentine]

yes there is a hay rack for him, I had a tray with pellets and hay in it but he kept peeing and pooping in it so I had to do something different. I have since gotten him a bowl for his pellets that attaches to the side of the cage and moved his hay rack. He loves to eat his hay and pellets off the top of his house so I just put them both on the back side of the cage and he just loves it. I also finally trained him to go in his cage at night without me having to catch him. I just shake his oxbow banana treats and he comes running so he gets a small piece then he knows to go in the cage and when I close the door he gets a oxbox timothy hay treat ( I think they are cute in the shape of the heart), he now loves to go in his cage at night now. The other night he begged me for a banana treat and kept going to his cage to go to sleep. He has run of the house all day and then goes in his cage only at night time. I do find him hiding under my bed all day though he only comes out to go to the bathroom and then right back under the bed, he sleeps with the cat under there. Now if I can get him more friendly to come sit with me on the couch and let me pet him. I tried the banana treats but as soon as he got the treat he ran away again. I have lots more time to figure something out for that, he did come up by me the other night when I was the only one home and sat with me for pets so I was happy with that but I want it to be more often. I hope he comes around soon. I always seem to get animals that are very shy or just like to hide all the time and have bad personalities but I love them anyways.

[LoveChaCha]

Haha, rabbits will pee and poo on hay.. mine does all the time Have you tried putting hay in the litter box?

[bullrider76543]

Mr hopper has a bowel that attaches to his cage but he still digs in it and spreads it everywhere. Such messy mesy eaters lol

[lashkay]

Hoppy Valentine: He will come around. Just keep up the good work, you are very smart at figuring things out. i’m sure he likes his pets too and will remember and come to you more often, sounds like he’s getting over his skittishness which takes time. But it’s worth it!

[lashkay]

I use one of these for each of my lionhead bunnies and they – and I – love it!

http://www.ferretdepot.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=fd&Product_Code=FP029&Category_Code=

I attach mine with a short bungee cord to the wire and drilled small pea-sized holes in the bottom of the bowl to drain pellet dust (optional but a great idea). I live in a small apartment and my maintenance person drilled a few holes in the bottom for me to let out pellet dust. It sounds like a lot of work probably, but it really isn’t. I wouldn’t use anything else. The bowl is small enough they have just their snouts in it! lol I keep it topped off with pellets for them and have had no problems or issues – their digestive functions are excellent. (knock on wood) It’s made for ferrets but I swear by them for my bunnies. I, too, before I found these, had issues of peeing and pooping in the pellet/water dishes. Not since, thank heavens.

[Lazee]

being an x-smoker I use one of my really heavy ashtrays. It has just the right kind of sides. makes a good food bowl.

my girls like tunnels. I have them inside outside just about anywhere I can fit one. I purchased 25′ of 10″ flexable vent pipe at the habitat for humanity store for 3$. I was a little worred about them eating at it but they don’t. I got a cat tunnel from the spca yard sale, about 4′ long. I got my hands on white pvc 10″ pipe with a 3 way connector I put in the middle. Furbee and Pia love it. Once I realized how much they love tunnels I put them everywhere i can, shorts one, long ones.

I shred newpaper, ball it up in a large 6″ ball and throw it in a sturdy box, they throw it around and dig it and just have a ball.

You have a nice setup, but of course too small for everything, so switch it around some, some days drop in a tunnel, some days a box with towel or paper for nesting work.

toilet rolls stuffed with grass or hay is a good toy. I sometimes cut up carrots and put it in the middle. We have access to lots of grass, let grow to about 10 to 12 ” and I cut it with hedge clippers giveing me long blades of grass. I do several grocery bags at a time and freg it. It will last for quite some time in the freg.

check out my ustream site, indoor and outdoor setup. outdoors are only on pretty days. l usually broadcast from about 9a to bedtime 11ish. lazeebones/hippityhop

[Sam and Lady's Human]

Lash are your bunnies babies? If not I wouldn’t use that feeder since they can’t free feed after 6 months.

Hoppy, that hay in the hay rack looks really yellow, is that just the image?
I use a Slimcats treat ball for Samsons pellets, it makes her work for it a little more and its like a game

[lashkay]

Sam and Lady’s – Thanks for pointing that out, but my bunnies don’t get or eat more than 1/8 – 1/4 cup pellets a day, as I don’t fill the ‘chute.”

[Nova]

I would say add some toys to the sides of the cage, and attach a bowl to the cage also The hanging toys are great too, especially for boxing buns. A cardboard papertowel inner roll always gives my buns something to flip around

[MoxieSox]

I also suggest toys. He might be flipping the bowl just out of boredom and wanting something to do. Try old phone books, plastic slinkies, clean hard plastic cups, an empty margarine container with something in it to make it rattle, cat balls with bells inside, toilet paper/paper towel rolls, hanging bird toys, baby keys (hard plastic only), plastic links.

The toilet paper rolls are a hit with my bunny if I stuff them with hay. He eats it and tosses it, then repeats =D

[Hoppy Valentine]

Thanks for all the suggestions, I am happy that I have all of you to help poor Hoppy to be less bored.

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