Clean It Up!

It is very, very important to clean your rabbit out at least once a week. To do this you will need:

• Bin liners
  
  
  
  


• Brush and Dustpan






• Antibacterial Spray (make sure its animal friendly)






• Newspaper






• Wood Shavings or Paper Shreadings






• Hay

First you need to get rid of all the soiled bedding. I find it easy to do this with the dustpan. Then put the dirty, old bedding into the bin liner.





Once all of the old bedding has been removed and put into a bin liner ready to be thrown out (sometimes a good idea to use the brush aswell). You will need to disinfect your rabbit cage every so often with antibacterial spray or washing up liquid. It must be rabbit friendly!! It's a good thing to do because if not your rabbit could get ill. You can get these sprays from pet shops.












Once the cage is cleaned out you need to put all the new bedding into the hutch. A thick layer of newspaper is requiered especially in areas where your rabbit goes to the toilet. If your rabbit is like mine and many others they will poo in only one place. Pet shops do sell trays for them to go to the toilet in and they can be potty trained. All you need to do is place the tray in the corner they use as a toilets. Your rabbit may also enjoy sitting in your toilet. Once the newspaper is in place you will need to spread around the woodshavings or paper shreadings. If you are using woodshavings you can use the dustpanto spread them around the hutch.

Your rabbit will need to be nice and snug and warm during the night so you need to make sure you put plenty of hay down in the bedding section of the hutch. You will also need to make sure that the hayrack (if you have one) is full of fresh hay. It is best to use hay rather than straw because you rabbit can have a little munch on it at the same time as sleeping in it. Then you need to make sure there's fresh water and the food bowl is full.

Finally put you little friend back into the hutch so he/she can make the mess all over again.