Slippery flooring?

[Lintini]

I’ve seen a lot of posts about people saying their buns won’t touch slick flooring types.

Indiana actually likes the coroplast. I finally snapped a photo today. Everytime I fix the towel on his upper loft…he digs it away and will flop down on the plain coroplast. I just re-arranged that towel 3 times to check my insanity. He changed it back and pushed that towel away. So weird!

So maybe the answer to many peoples questions on flooring is, ‘it depends on your bun?”

 

Weirdo…

[i~luv~frappichino&sammy]

haha my bunny Sammy does the same!!!!!!!!!!

[Monkeybun]

Moose shoves his fleece blanket around in his cage, and then flops partially on the coroplast and partially on his bunched up fleece

[RabbitPam]

My Sammy always prefers her smooth plastic cage floor to sleep on. Even the night after her spay (first night home) she didn’t use the padded fleece I put down for her comfort, preferring the cage bottom. And yet, she won’t set foot on the kitchen or bathroom floors.

[Elrohwen]

Otto hates to walk on slippery flooring and won’t walk in his cage if I take away the piece of fleece on the bottom. However, he digs the fleece away from the spot he likes to lay on so that he can be on the slippery floor. So you could say he only likes slippery floors when they’re a small area and he doesn’t have to run across them 😉

[Lintini]

It’s so interesting how everyone’s Buns differ

[lashkay]

Buddie likes to lay on the bare vinyl linoleum that is the flooring for his pen, too. Maybe because it’s a little cool temperature-wise with the heat turned up to 70? He does also enjoy laying on his grass mat near his food & water. Come to think of it, I like to sit on cool bare floors when the weather is warm.

[Monkeybun]

Monkey likes lying on her towels or in her grass house, the only time she sits on the cage floor itself is when she’s having a drink fromt eh water bottle, the rest of the time she likes having something soft under her toes.

[lashkay]

I like that, I like bunnies that like to get cozy even if its only to stand and lie on something soft. Maybe it’s because I like to get cozy myself. Come to think of it, who doesn’t?

[Monkeybun]

..I have 6 different fleece blankets that are just for me, maybe thats where Monkey got the cozy thing from hehe.

*snuggles into her computer chair fleece blankie*

[lashkay]

My one regret about Lash, other than that I didn’t spay her, is that she continually had bald foot bottoms on her hind feet. Me and her vet never did get to the bottom of what was causing it. I didn’t have her on wire flooring, her cage was lined with exercise mat pieces, so that wasn’t it. There was a tarp covering the floor where she had free run. I have heard that hard surfaces can cause sore hocks but my Buddie is on a hard surface – vinyl linoleum over the carpet, where his pen is, and he has full fur on the bottoms of his feet. Lash’s were always pink and bare, though. I wish I had known why. We even tried bandaging her hind feet to let the fur grow back in, but she would chew the bandages before anything could grown back in so I would remove them. At one point in her final years, she started urinating while she was eating pellets and standing in the puddle. That certainly didn’t help the condition. But the pink feet started way before then so it must have been something else that caused it.

[Elrohwen]

Lashkay, was your first bun a rex? Is your current bun a rex? Often rexes will develop callouses on their feet that are pink and hairless. However, these don’t hurt them, so they’re not really the same thing as sore hocks. It’s a very normal thing for rexes and seem to happen to many regardless of the flooring.

[lashkay]

I wish I could say Lash was a Rex and that would solve the mystery. But no, she was an Orange Netherland Dwarf…does your info pertain to Netherland Dwarfs as well? I don’t see why it couldn’t. A bunny is a bunny. And Buddie, i was told by the person whose rabbit birthed him, is a Purebred Fancy Lionhead. His feet bottoms are very furry. But it is good to know that the callouses that develop on feet that are pink and hairless don’t hurt them. Lash didn’t walk gingerly or anything so it didn’t appear she was in any pain from her condition, I really felt for her, though. Thank you, Elrohwen! I feel much better confirming that she wasn’t hurting. That’s a load off my mind.

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