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When it comes to choosing bedding for rabbits, you want to ensure that your bunnies will be safe, clean, cosy and comfortable. Our cosy bedding is perfect for keeping your small animals warm and cosy while they sleep, it’s easy to spot clean and is suitable for use as bedding or litter.
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The best option for safe rabbit cage bedding is paper bedding combined with some dust extracted bedding hay for the ultimate in cleanliness and comfort, to help your rabbits enjoy the cosiest naptimes.
Although you can use an old newspaper as a rabbit cage liner, it’s not ideal as bunny bedding or bunny litter. If your buns rip it up, the newspaper ink can be harmful if they ingest too much of it.
Likewise, softwood litter such as sawdust is too dusty and can affect your rabbits’ respiratory system. Remember that hay is not just for bedding and to ensure that your rabbits have constant access to soft, sweet-smelling, dust-extracted feeding hay.
Soft on little paws, Excel Nap & Nest Paper Bedding is ideal. It provides super-absorbent, odour-free, safe bedding for rabbits, made from unused offcuts from teabag production.
Got a question about rabbit hutch bedding and paper litter for rabbits? To help you make the right choice to keep your bunnies safe, clean and cosy, we’ve put together some really useful answers from our expert team at Burgess, the pet care experts.
The Rabbit Welfare Association & Fund advises against using sawdust or clay-based clumping cat litter as rabbit bedding. This is because sawdust can irritate rabbits’ skin and lungs and clumping cat litter can cause digestive problems if your buns ingest it.
Specially designed paper bedding for rabbits and other small animals is super-absorbent, safe and an ideal solution to keeping your buns clean and cosy while they sleep.
Your buns should also have a constant fresh supply of good-quality feeding hay, placed in hay racks, willow balls or tubes and in areas that are separate to the bedding area, along with fresh, clean water.
Rabbits generally prefer to munch on hay while they’re resting and they also like to ‘poo and chew’, so put a pile of yummy feeding hay in their favourite resting places and hang a hay rack above their litter tray. That way, your buns’ accommodation can stay clean, dry and hygienic while they munch away happily on their favourite .
When thinking about creating the perfect rabbit accommodation, remember that both indoor and outdoor bunnies need as much space as possible, with plenty of opportunities to exercise, tunnels to run through, look-out spots to keep watch from and cosy sleeping spaces with plenty of soft, safe paper bedding designed specifically for rabbits.
So, whether your bunnies enjoy the indoors or the outdoors, choosing quality paper-based litter for rabbits will provide them with an ideal sleeping environment.
As well as plenty of hiding places and a cosy sleeping space, your rabbits need a separate area where they can go to the toilet. Because Excel Nap & Nest is designed for use as both bunny bedding and litter, it’s ideal for putting in your rabbits’ litter tray as well as in their favourite napping spots.
It’s also really easy to use – simply remove some from the pack a handful at a time and gently pull it apart. Add a 3-5cm layer to your buns’ bedding and toilet areas and, each day, just remove and replace any soiled bits.
You should give your rabbits’ housing a quick clean every day. As well as throwing away any uneaten food and changing their water, get rid of any wet or dirty bedding and litter to keep their accommodation hygienically clean.
Once a week, you should give your rabbits’ housing a thorough clean, using non-toxic, pet-friendly cleaning products, removing all their bedding and litter and replacing with fresh. Make sure all their housing is dry before returning your pets. Remember to keep back a little of the old hay and bedding so that the place still smells like home to your buns.
Because Excel Nap & Nest Paper Bedding is light in colour, it’s easy to spot any soiled bedding or litter, remove it and replace with fresh – making cleaning quick and easy. This makes it the best rabbit bedding for odour control and means that you don’t need to replace your rabbits’ entire bedding every day. Therefore, each bag lasts longer, providing a cost-effective solution for caring for your pets.
Bunnies are crepuscular, which means they like to be out and about early morning and early evening. The best way to enable your pet buns to come and go as they please is to have an exercise run permanently attached to their hutch. This could be a safe bunny-proofed room indoors, or a large run outdoors, so they can run, jump, explore, forage and do all the things that come naturally to bunnies.
Because they’re most active at dawn and dusk, lifting them from their hutch to run about for a few hours in the daytime just doesn’t suit their body clocks and instincts, however cosy their rabbit hutch bedding is!
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If you’re at all unsure about the best way of caring for your rabbits or what the safest bunny bedding is for them, ask your local veterinary practice for advice.
You can also call our expert team, from 9am-5pm, Monday to Friday, on +44 (0)1405 862241 and they’ll be happy to help. Our online contact form also provides an easy way to get in touch.
Take a look at our Pet Care page for more information on looking after your rabbits.
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