resting pads

[nawma]

Does anyone use resting pads in their rabbit cages?

 

[Gagroundhog]

I like to use a piece of untreated shelving board cut to size. They chew on the edges, rounding it off. They are easy to clean if needed. If a rabbit decides to use it as a potty board than I can get them a plastic one sold for rabbits in the pet section somewhere.

It is good for their feet and to have a resting board and they like them.

 

[brentr]

It's a good practice to give rabbits a place where they can rest off the wire, even if cage floor is 1/2" x 1" as recommended. There are some who don't use them and select breeders based (partly) on foot quality. A rabbit with a thick, well-furred foot *shouldn't* have problems with foot sores if there is no resting pad.

I find a couple of my rabbits like to play with theirs. They chew on them, push them around the cages, etc.

 

[Hens and Roos]

We use the platic ones in the cages and the rabbits seem to use them, they do like to try and move them around

 

[sonnythebunny]

I have a wooden board that I use in wire floor cage,
I wonder if rabbits feet ever get sores from wood floors???

 

[nawma]

Thanks everyone for your replies. I think I will get some for my bunnies.

 

[Gagroundhog]

We have a french lop buck who keeps pickin' his plastic one up and leaning it up on the wall of his cage!
I'll make him a wood one soon but but he has such a good time with the plastic one I think he'll have to have both!

 

[nawma]

Rabbits are such funny little creatures. I have a NZB buck that refuses to have a urine guard on the front of his cage. Doesn't matter how secure it is he manages to take it down. I finally let him have his own way because he choose the back of the pen as a bathroom.