I feel like a bad mommy

[Shmoo06]

My apartment is all wet(yay living on the ground floor that's half underground), so my buns don't have their normal place to run and play. I just feel really bad especially because I have the next 3 days off, so they would normally be out the entire time. Their rabbitat is an xpen, so I guess they're not tooooo closed up normally. They're just sitting there looking at me like "mommy?"

and thanks to you lovely people for suggesting a shopvac for hay because it has come in handy vacuuming up the water. lol. I have fans on the spots right now, so hopefully everything will be good to go soon(except we have more rain coming).

Their favorite spot to lay got wet.

 

[majorv]

Bummer, you should get a discount on your rent for having to put up with that!

 

[Nancy McClelland]

I don't know how you can have bunnies and not own a shop vac.

 

[Zaiya]

Uhh..... What's a shop vac?

 

[Spikethebunny]

You're not a bad mommy! You are actually a better mommy for thinking of them first and not letting them run in the wet spots. A bad mommy would be like, "screw it, do play in the dirty wet patches." They may not understand, but you are doing what is best for them. You're a good mommy!

 

[Pipsqueak]

I agree you should get a discount on your rent.

And Zaiya this is a shop vac, they're soo nice to have!

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[Zaiya]

Ooooooh, thooooose! Ya, I don't have one of those...

 

[Pipsqueak]

Heehee it's a necessary tool for rabbit owners.

 

[Ilovemyrabbit]

You are a good mommy. Like Spikethebunny said.

Emily, I don't have a shop vac I think I want one now. :spintongue

 

[Zaiya]

Why do "all rabbit owners" need one?

 

[Ilovemyrabbit]

Zaiya, I'm sure rabbit owners don't NEED them, lol. But they probably come in handy for sucking up poops and other messes bunnies make.

 

[Zaiya]

Ah, make sense

 

[DUSTBUNNY-CLYDE]

you're not a bad mommy! you can't help about apt. leaking. maybe take them outside in the x pen and get some fresh air and grass!!

 

[lindemanbunnylover]

Idk...i have one, but I use it for my car. I just use a regular vacuum cleaner for the hay messes that my buns make. Is there a certain nozzle piece for the shop vac to make it work the way you want it to?:vacuum:

 

[Zaiya]

Zaiya, I'm sure rabbit owners don't NEED them, lol. But they probably come in handy for sucking up poops and other messes bunnies make.

Ooooh... I just realized why I was confuzled! Most people keep their bunnies indoors, while I have to keep my rabbits outdoors due to my parent's allergies. I was wondering why I would need one. To vacuum up the poops from under the hutch to move to the compost pile? But it makes more sense to vacuum up things inside

 

[PaGal]

Shop vacs do have different attachments for the hose. A plus with shop vacs is that you can vacuum up liquids with a regular vac you can't. We have several shop vacs. Two are large and one small. The small one did not do a good job for me getting up the hay especially the longer pieces and I don't have room to store a large one inside so I just use my house vac. It does clog after a while from longer hay so by hand I pick up the longer pieces and vacuum the rest. Thumper doesn't leave too many longer pieces and since I clean his room every day it only takes me about 15 minutes to do all the work.

 

[bhoffman]

I just thought of using my shop vac this week ! I usually use one of those hand brooms, the ones with the short handles, sweep them out. But I had the shop vac out anyways after cleaning the car, and wow. I will use it from now on. SO much easier.