I wanted to ask an additional question so I updated the subject to alert of a new Question
Anyhow, Oreo and Blu are both going through monster sheds…so I am on top of it daily.. However, they don’t care much for being groomed with a brush, I can get them to every now and then, but typically I use my hands while I’m petting/distracting them…Oreo is okay but Blue is close to impossible sometimes. I asked the pet sitter to brush them if she can every so often, but I’m not sure they’ll let her..I told her this too. I am just worried if they go for almost 2 weeks with no grooming during such a bad shed they’ll be in bad shape (Oreo went into stasis during her first big shed last year before I realized how much I needed to groom her, so I get paranoid…) What do you think? Thanks again!
Original post is below…
Hi all,
I recently started a topic about caring for bunnies while on vacation and now that it’s fast approaching I wanted to ask a few more things. We will be gone for about 12 days…first long trip since we got both bunnies. They live separately, in cages attached to pens with proper space for daily living. However, I bought some more cage grids to expand both of their pens for while we’re gone. I’m very concerned with their lack of exercise/free run time while we’re gone. I don’t know any other way around it though. Hubby wanted a long vacation and of course I’m excited, but I can’t help but worry constantly about how the buns will be…and we’re not even gone yet! We have a pet sitter coming twice a day to care for them…but I won’t let her let them out or anything, so it’s just to feed, play with them a little, etc.
My question right now has to do with their salads. I typically prepare all breakfast and dinner salads for them before we go away anywhere…however with the length of the trip I’m afraid that’s way too long to have a bagged salad? I plan to make up to a week of them and then ask the pet sitter to freshly make the rest?? I know romaine is the only reliable green (plus parsley or cilantro) that I can be sure will hold up over the time we’re gone…but I know that makes for very unhappy bunnies, they love their variety! I’m thinking of asking my neighbor to pick up some red leaf or green leaf lettuces after the first week and drop it at the house? Am I worrying too much??
Also, since I know they’ll be a lot more bored and have a lot of energy to burn…so do you suggest anything in particular to give them? I know they love chewing and playing with cardboard and paper, so I could give them each a box with paper, but I don’t like leaving things like that permanently in the cage…something makes me nervous about them eating too much of it? But that’s what they play with when they’re running around our family room during free time. I think I’m worrying too much?
Any help is greatly appreciated! Or at least a word of reassurance that they’ll be okay…
Thanks for reading…