Cleaning Cages!!

[RiO LoVeR]

Ok, this is terrible, I clean Rio's cage all thetime, but of course he is living in a small cage for thewinter. It is driving me crazy. He is so white, buthe gets poopy stuff on the bottoms of his feet, and they getdiscolored, and he has a poopy thing on his tail should I give him abath cut the thing on his taill off and scrub his feet.

I need to know what to do. (I am just going to have to keepcleaning the cage, but I want to know how to get the stuff off of histail, and his feet.

 

[Buck Jones]

Buns don't take too well to baths, by andlarge. You could clean him up with a cloth, a mildsoap and water. Be sure to get him dry afterward.

Many people trim around the anal area carefully in order tokeep things more sanitary. Sometimes, poopy butt isindicative of an over production of cecotropes caused by too rich adiet and/or too chubby rabbit unable to clean itself.

I would not suggest cutting any fur from his feet because rabbits needpadding on their feet and to do so might lead to sore feet.Just clean as best you can.

"Yellowed" feet can often be whitened with hydrogen peroxideand/or lemon juice. Soak well, add baking powder and brushout when dry. You might want to consider a wire floor thatwould keep him off his poops with a tray beneath to catchthem.

My inside cages all have 1/2" x1/2" square wire floors called "hardwarecloth" that permits stray poops to filter through, but most of thepoops and all urine is caught up in a corner litter box withlitter. Easier to clean a litter box, than to clean atray daily.

Buck

 

[RiO LoVeR]

Thank you very much, I will try that as soon as Ican, but I have to go out tonight and eat supper with some relatives soI will prb. get to time to clean him up on Monday afterschool.

P.S. Thanks again

Oh, and if anyone has had prbs. like this tell everyone how you have sloved it.

And during the summer Rio has a cage with wires and has poop traysunderneith, but the thing I worry about is that Rio chews on the wires,and I worry about him cutting himself,and the cuts gettinginfected, thats what I hate about wire cages.

Oh, and also this last summer I was going to show Rio in The PenningtonCounty Fair, but I figured I better not cuz on his black nose there wasa place where he was missing hair, and I figured judges are usuallyreally picky, and might think I am not taking care of him, so I decidedto wait tell next year. So I was jw what do you think thatmissing hair could have been caused from, flys or what?? Iput vasline on his nose wich seemed to help, but Rio didn't like itvery much, he would lick his nose it was kinda funny. I justhope it doesn't happen again.

Oh and don't forget to tell me about about your prbs. you have had inthe past, like infected cuts, or any health prb.s. I reallywant to know how you solved them, so if anything ever happens toanyones rabbits that we know how to slove the prob. So shareyour stories with me and everyone else, so we can make our rabbits havea better, longer life.