So many people use it for putting on slopes and things in hutches, but I'd prefer mine not to go near it... they chew the edges of the carpet in their room whenever they can get the chance... this can cause blockages, so why do people use it in their hutches?


Mind you... I would never use newspaper in a hutch either... so maybe I'm extra cautious after Binky... :(

Ang I don't use carpet or newspaper like that either. it always scares me when I see it on ramps and things. I like the coroplast (which I still haven't gotten) and things like that for ramps and resting areas.

Bo does have cardboard boxes and paper bags he plays with when he's out but no thin papers or carpet for him. He chews it and he pees on it so the carpet has a double bad stamp from me!

We sometimes put a ramp up to the tabletop where the cages are so the buns can come and go to their cages as they want.

We tried a variety of different thing to give them the traction they need, but the carpeting worked the best.

They don't seem too interested in the carpet on the ramp, but I always keep a close eye on them when the ramp is up.

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I had this argument with someone on another forum. They had carpet in the rabbits cage and I said that not only is it unsafe, it's unsanitary. I told them that the rabbit steps in their own mess and spreads germs. Well this person got all defensive and said "they have a grate over the litter box and it always uses the litter box so it doesn't spread the germs around". Try explaining to someone that just because it has a grate over it, doesn't mean the rabbit wont step on the grate where there is germs from passing pee and poop and get it on their feet which tracks to the carpet.

They also didn't believe me that it's dangerous. Some people bug me like that but some really don't have much of a choice other than carpet.

P.S.- I don't give my boys paper or cardboard (except the odd box to play in) either.

I would never put carpet in Wrigley's cage. He is constantly pulling up the carpet in the room he plays in....it drives me crazy! :wacko:

Pebbles doesn't pull on our carpet any more. She did it the first few times but it was probably new to her. I have lots of 18 X 18 inch tile carpet, so I just replace them when they are dirty.

It's a bit different when you're rabbit runs around a carpetted room. I for one would never put carpet in a rabbits cage though.

i think there are the few out there that just don't chew it, by why take the chance in my opinion. most rabbits love to chew and pull apart carpet. and carpet is dangerous, it can cause blockages, it can strangle the intestine, it can actually slice through the intestinesplus if it get lodged in their throat they can sofocate on it..

surgery on a rabbit for general purposes can be risky, and i don't like how they claim it is no more risky than cats and dogs because thats not true.
One they are much more sensitive to what you are doing from them, they can die from pain, 2, cats and dogs are tubed, they have a tube placed in their trechia, while rabbits you use a mask.
a mask is used for a couple of reasons, 1 it is difficult even for an expert to tube a rabbit, 2 the tube causes irrtation to the throat causing the rabbit to not want to eat, and we all know how important it is for rabbits to eat after surgery.

performing surgery on an intestine that impacted or inflamed and extreamly delicate is hard. the more cuts the dr has to make lowers the mortality rate.

interesting but scary, in cats they say if you make more than 4 cuts in the intestine the cat typically will die, so they try to limit it to under 4.

if a rabbit's stomach is full when you go in, you have to be extreamly careful as it is so easy to actually pop the stomach..

of course sometimes there is no alternative other than surgery, but if thee is a way to avoid it i'm all for that, and one of those is keeping carpet out of my buns living space, they do have a flat pile indoor outdoor carpet in the play area but they are only on that supervised.
stepping down ;)