Can anyone suggest a really nice indoor rabbit cage?
I want something big, she’s a pretty large lop IMO and she has to stay IN the cage a lot because she’s a class pet.
Also I saw some have pull out bottoms… is that a good feature? Not many had them.
Low price is awesome too!
I’m at school and most of the pages are blocked but I need to get one tonight!
Thanks!!!
Pull-out bottoms are a wonderful easy-cleaning feature, & frankly, most indoor rabbit enclosures do have them. I’m surprised that you say that “not many had them”. Where are you looking?
And you need to “get one tonight”? Why the urgency - did you not have enough time to plan for this rabbit?
I’d advise you to get something temporary & then spend some TIME doing some RESEARCH about what a permanent home for a bunny - classroom pet or not - will cost/entail. If not for you & your classroom, at least for the bunny. :rolleyes:
Oh, & also you might want to do some READING on rabbits. A large rabbit will NEED a lot of out-of-the-cage time. Whether it fits into your classroom plans or not.
I made mine from those wire cubes you get from Target or Walmart - they come packed flat and you put the cubes together yourself. But I used zip ties and mine is pretty tall - my mini bun babies love it and love racing up and down the levels.
If you google NIC Rabbit cages you’ll get lots of pictures and ideas. My buns are learning how to use the litterbox, but I have 3 of them in the cage and all of their food goes in dishes in the litterpans. They poop and eat so it helps keep things tidy. I sweep up any stray pellets with a little dustpan and broom.
I built mine in a single rainy afternoon and it cost me less than $100 for everything - way cheaper than anything you buy ready-made .
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Pull-out bottoms are a wonderful easy-cleaning feature, & frankly, most indoor rabbit enclosures do have them. I’m surprised that you say that “not many had them”. Where are you looking?
And you need to “get one tonight”? Why the urgency - did you not have enough time to plan for this rabbit?
I’d advise you to get something temporary & then spend some TIME doing some RESEARCH about what a permanent home for a bunny - classroom pet or not - will cost/entail. If not for you & your classroom, at least for the bunny. :rolleyes:
Oh, & also you might want to do some READING on rabbits. A large rabbit will NEED a lot of out-of-the-cage time. Whether it fits into your classroom plans or not.[/QUOTE]
Geez - snark much?
If you look at her earlier posts you will see that she is taking excellent care of the rabbit, and it has been living in her house.
Leith Pet Works Bunny Abode. No cheap but really nice. We leave the condo door open all the time but she loves to sleep on the condo’s party deck.
http://www.leithpetwerks.com/indexpage.cfm?category=1
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Geez - snark much?
If you look at her earlier posts you will see that she is taking excellent care of the rabbit, and it has been living in her house.[/QUOTE]
Uh - what earlier post? If you’re talking about an earlier THREAD, then post it. But there’s no “earlier post” here than the first one I responded to.
Gee PaintPony - you must be new to COTH. You need to investigate the basis for your own snarkiness before posting it - LOL!!!
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Uh - what earlier post? If you’re talking about an earlier THREAD, then post it. But there’s no “earlier post” here than the first one I responded to.
Gee PaintPony - you must be new to COTH. You need to investigate the basis for your own snarkiness before posting it - LOL!!![/QUOTE]
Well I’m not new to COTH and will second the “lay off the snark” comment. Meredith has posted about the bunny before (which you can go look up yourself) and takes very good care of her. This coming from someone whose bunny had a whole office to himself to run around in, plus additional exercise running around the whole house when supervised.
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Well I’m not new to COTH and will second the “lay off the snark” comment. Meredith has posted about the bunny before (which you can go look up yourself) and takes very good care of her. This coming from someone whose bunny had a whole office to himself to run around in, plus additional exercise running around the whole house when supervised.[/QUOTE]
Uh - there’s no reason or requirement for me to “look up myself” another thread re: Meridith’s bunny". That, frankly, should have been your chore before you made your snarky comment. Too lazy to do so? Your problem, not mine.
Let’s just hope Meredith does what’s right by her rabbit in the classroom.
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Geez - snark much?
If you look at her earlier posts you will see that she is taking excellent care of the rabbit, and it has been living in her house.[/QUOTE]
Thank you PaintPony!!!
To answer the questions raised…
I have had the bunny (a rescue that I vetted to make sure was appropriate) for about 2 months now. She has a very nice cage but I take her home on the weekends and it is hard to lug it up and down my apartment steps. I would like her to have a bigger cage for when she is at school.
As far as stretching her legs… we do “bunny time” everyday when she can hop around and go from lap to lap. She is also loose before the kids get there (from 6:30 when I get there to 8:45 and then after the kids leave until I leave… from 3:45 until…yea.)
I don’t think you need to be so snarky. Not only have I done my “homework” but we have done multiple lessons as a class on how to care for our bunny. The students take care of her, feeding, watering, choosing what stimulation she gets and track her progress.
She is also going to a rabbit specialist on Sat. because I think she is getting a bit stressed and I want to have her spayed as well.
Anything else you’d like me to do or can you suggest a cage to me?
Also,
In my original post I should have said I “want” to get one tonight… the “I need to get one tonight” comes from the urgency of my class asking “Where’s Peach???” :lol:
I think they’re secretly planning a revolution to get me OUT and the bunny back IN!
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Thank you PaintPony!!!
To answer the questions raised…
I have had the bunny (a rescue that I vetted to make sure was appropriate) for about 2 months now. She has a very nice cage but I take her home on the weekends and it is hard to lug it up and down my apartment steps. I would like her to have a bigger cage for when she is at school.
As far as stretching her legs… we do “bunny time” everyday when she can hop around and go from lap to lap. She is also loose before the kids get there (from 6:30 when I get there to 8:45 and then after the kids leave until I leave… from 3:45 until…yea.)
I don’t think you need to be so snarky. Not only have I done my “homework” but we have done multiple lessons as a class on how to care for our bunny. The students take care of her, feeding, watering, choosing what stimulation she gets and track her progress.
She is also going to a rabbit specialist on Sat. because I think she is getting a bit stressed and I want to have her spayed as well.
Anything else you’d like me to do or can you suggest a cage to me?[/QUOTE]
Our posts crossed at the exact same time. My apologies & hopes for your bunny’s continued health & happiness go out to you.
Why don’t you tell us more about the space you’re working with. Then we can give you appropriate suggestions. Things like carpet vs tile flooring and where you have free space in the classroom make all the difference in the cages and habitats you can use. For example, when I was a kid, they had rabbits in big wooden coop setups in some classrooms and while those are not practical in most classrooms, they were used simply because the classrooms built into my schools were big and keeping them in a small cage was impractical when a child could easily disturb or release the bunny.
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Our posts crossed at the exact same time. My apologies & hopes for your bunny’s continued health & happiness go out to you.[/QUOTE]
No big deal! I know you were just looking out for the safety and health of bun buns.
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Why don’t you tell us more about the space you’re working with. Then we can give you appropriate suggestions. Things like carpet vs tile flooring and where you have free space in the classroom make all the difference in the cages and habitats you can use. For example, when I was a kid, they had rabbits in big wooden coop setups in some classrooms and while those are not practical in most classrooms, they were used simply because the classrooms built into my schools were big and keeping them in a small cage was impractical when a child could easily disturb or release the bunny.[/QUOTE]
Right now her cage is on a trapezoid table, I think it might be better to put 2 desk together (they measure 24x18). However this wouldn’t leave space for her tracking clipboard that they students have to fill out every morning. There is an area that is tile but we use that as our “dance floor” so I don’t want to just put Peach on there.
I’d love for the cage to be around 40 inches. I think that’d give her good hopping space.
Everything I find in retail that might work for you in a classroom on a table is pretty shoddy from the reviews and none of them are suitable for attaching a clipboard, so you’d have to put it someplace else.
Thinking outside the box here…I’d maybe try to have one made?
I love the idea of a classroom bunny, definitely keeping that one on the back burner. We had one in my 4th grade class called Whiskers. He was awesome and we got to take in turns brining him home with us on breaks. Fun times!
My rabbits live in conjoined exercise pens – about 4 4’ x 4’ pens stretched out and clipped together. The pen is 30" tall but my male, The Shark, goes AWOL when he feels like it. Most of my other rabbits weren’t jumpers.
The simplest rabbit confinement solution, IMO, is the ‘Bunny Pen’ sold by KW cages. My free-range rabbits in LA (totally fenced/walled yard) used to stay in those at night. The pen part folds up and it’s very portable.
I’d love something like this…
http://www.rabbitmart.com/shop/index.php?page=shop-flypage-24326
I like the pull out tray and mess guards but it’s quite expensive. Anything like this? Maybe with out the bi-level option that might make it more expensive.
Many pre-made cages you will find for bunnies are like like that MereBella and cost about the same from online or retail at Petco/Petsmart. Not really much of a choice I’m afraid.
rats! I guess I have to decide if the extra level (that Peach may not even use), the pull out cleaning tray, and the mess guard is worth an extra $50 … :eek:
I did apply for a class pet grant so that could give me up to 100 dollars for supplies.
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