keeping xpen in place!!

[mzsunshine]

 Lola is just wayy too mischevious  for her own good!! Our house is carpeted, so I have a large piece of vinyl that serves as the flooring of the buns humble abode. The vinyl is larger than the xpen & I make sure there are no edges so they can sink their chompers into it. 

HOWEVER… I wake up in the morning and I see pieces of the flooring! It turns out Lola sticks her little nose inbetween the bars of the xpen and moves it! She literally picks it up and shoves it so she can get to the edge of the flooring  ! I’ve seen her do this, and even grab the bars of the xpen with her teeth and move it as well!

Any ideas how to secure the pen to prevent her from doing this??

 

[Riley101]

My rabbit does the same thing! The way i keep my x-pen from going anywhere is i put I-hooks{ i think thatz what theyre called} in the wall. Then i just put clips on my x-pen , then clipping the clips into the I-hooks! I have also used zip ties with I-hooks but the clips work better!

I hope this helps!

[kinggoblin]

mine moves his x-pen too when he sees me in the living room, but its on the kitchen floor so I don’t worry about it. maybe ductape the edges of the x-pen to the vinyl? but the bunny might try to eat it >.<

[Monkeybun]

well, you could try making a frame for it out of 2×4’s, so that bun can’t shove it around as easily. I have been contemplating that for Squirrel, as he likes to move his pen, but its challenging to do so while getting bonding going.

[Lazee]

yep, mine do the same thing, or at least Furbee does. I zip tie my husbands no longer used dumb bells, I also use them to weigh down the hay feeder. When ever you see a yard sale with a weight bench they may have some weights for sale. they are great, haven’ found a rabbit yet that can do harm to those things.

[jerseygirl]

You know, when I 1st saw pics of your rabbits I thought Buster would be the troublemaker. :p
I have one who is continually nibbling vinyl too.
2×4’s around the perimeter is a good idea. It would stabalise the pen shape, cover the vinyl edges and give them a safe thing to chew on also.

mine moves his x-pen too when he sees me in the living room, but its on the kitchen floor so I don’t worry about it.

ah ha, that’s funny! Nothing gets in the way of the will of a bunny. “I wanna go there, I’ll just bring the xpen with me.”

[lashkay]

My x-pens for Dustor and Petie are set inside two 4.5 x 4.5 foot square 4″ tall square trays me and my friend built out of coroplast. It’s ingenius, if I do say so! I got the idea from seeing similar trays made out of coroplast for guinea pig cages but couldn’t find any big enough for the rabbits’ 4×4 foot square x-pens so, voila, made one myself! It was worth it, and all in all not difficult, with a friend to help me hold the walls of the tray upright while one of us did the taping to the bottom.

I called around town (San Francisco) for the supplies. We got the huge coroplast sheets at builders supply store (a van is recommended for transport, although I used a taxi) the store cut their huge sheets of white coroplast into box pieces, down into a bottom and sides for us (we ended up needing to make further cuts with xacto knives and a long metal straightedege ruler when we were putting the thing together at home which was easy). Once we had the pieces all cut, we taped the pieces together piece by piece with a 3″ wide industrial strength chemicals-resistant tape (urine-resistant) I bought in a plastics store. One person held the sides stable upright while the other taped it to the bottom floor.

Once the tray was taped together we laid down 16 squares of adhesive linoleum tiles square to square to cover the bottom wall to wall. Then on top of that we taped in place to the coroplast sides a square of sheet linoleum cut to a little over 4 x 4 foot square and that serves as the floor of their pen. (The adhesive tiles could have been foregone but we used them for good measure.) Of course, it doesn’t hurt that both buns use their litterbox faithfully, but the thing is watertight. Not only do the x-pens stay in place, the tray they set in contains all hay and stray poops and debris. The walls of the tray clear the walk-thru door to the x-pen so I can still walk in and out to do maintenance which amounts to cleaning the litterboxes and sweeping loose hay from inside the penwalls into a dustpan. It’s great!

[mzsunshine]

these are all great ideas! I will try them out and hopefully find a solution! I can hear Lola lifting up the pen as I type! -___-

Jerseygirl – SERIOUSLY I thought Buster would be the troublemaker… but no it seems that Lola is the bad influence and wild child

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