Litterbox garden for indoors?

[Blue eyes]

I just stumbled across this idea on the internet. Does this make sense to anyone? It doesn't make sense to me. I don't see how that wouldn't need to be changed as often as a regular litterbox. And how do those plants not get chewed down to the roots?

http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/how-to-make-a-house-rabbit-lit-77053

 

[MiniLopHop]

I agree that my constantly "hungry" buns would nom the plants to nubs and poop so much there would be over flow! I do pour their dirty litter on my garden, but it is safer outside where the bunnies can't nomm it to smitherenes.

 

[whitelop]

I guess its to make your litter boxes more pretty and less like a litter box. Until someone walks over to look at your indoor 'garden' and they're like "what are these little brown balls? Is that...bunny poop?" Then they realize its a litter box.
I mean, no one wants to see a litter box, whether it be for rabbits or cats. We all have litter boxes, so its not like WE care, but maybe people who don't have animals?

I'm sure you would have to change the box as often as a regular one, and probably replace the plants often because they would get nibbled to nothing.

It would look nice in a sunroom or something, but it seems like a strange thing to me. And if you have to go out and buy all the things for that, then maybe a waste of money. If you had all the materials to make it and you didn't have to pay for it, sure.

 

[tamsin]

I don't think it would look that pretty for long lol. You could do plants in separate pots, I do grass like this, but herbs would work just as well: http://www.therabbithouse.com/blog/2012/06/09/mini-rabbit-garden/

Rocks would be fine as you could wash them, but the litter tray would need to be easier to clean.

 

[Blue eyes]

The basket over top to protect the base of the plants is a good idea!

The way the "garden litterbox" is presented in the site above (not your site), it seems like they are suggesting one wouldn't need to change it -- that the urine will "water" the plants and the poo will fertilize. :?

 

[ldoerr]

It said on the site that you have to take the excess poop out to your other plants. If you read carefully it does not say that you never have to empty the box. I agree that the plants would get eaten faster than they would grow.

 

[Blue eyes]

Oh, I didn't post the site that linked to the instructions. I just posted the instructions of how to make it.
Here's the original article that gave me the impression that you won't need to change it.

http://www.examiner.com/article/building-a-self-maintaining-litterbox-herb-garden-for-rabbits

The title alone gave that impression ("self-maintaining")