Hello everyone! My name is Katherine and I have a lovely little bun named Toby (Tobias Funke hehe) that I adopted from the SPCA in December and love him to death. I had been working at our local pet store where we don’t sell animals, we house them for the SPCA to get more visibility, for over a year when Toby came into the store. I immediately fell in love and our family is a little more whole now My friend gave me her old wire indoor cage, it’s about 2×3 feet, and I knew that would be temporary. It opened from the top, and I knew I wanted to eventually get something built where Toby could hop out on his own free will. Right now he lives in an x-pen which is not ideal because it is cloth, until my new housing solution arrives tomorrow. He doesn’t chew on the cloth, but I wanted something a little more permanent.
In three weeks I will be moving into a house with knotty pine pretty much everywhere. Someone in town here makes all sort of things out of the material, so I decided to ask them to build Toby a hutch 2x4feet with drawers underneath for storage of foodies and the like. This is the final project that I’m so excited will arrive tomorrow. It is about 2 feet tall as well. I wanted it to look like a piece of furniture that goes with our house, but I also want Toby’s needs completely at the forefront.
Toby is 3.5 lbs and a year old. Less than a foot when he does his suuuuper stretches. I’d say about 8-10 inches when he is flopped out, but I think that’s on the high end lol.
Anyway the reason I am posting is for recommendations for flooring and covering of the two posts in the back, and the lip on the bottom (the rest of the posts are covered with the mesh stuff). Tonight we were going to go to home depot to get ideas and maybe buy stuff. They have coroplast in stock at our local home depot, in 4×8 feet sections, so I was thinking of buying that for the floor, and using the extra to attach to the lip of the base. We are open to other ideas though. Basically I was thinking coroplast because I could replace it if need be, and to protect the wood.
And I’d also like to say that his house is just for while we are at work. I asked for the door to open from the bottom so that when we are home, the door is open and can be used as a ramp for Toby to be free range when we are home. However, at the moment he is mostly only comfortable on carpet/towels so I was going to put a lot of that in the cage itself, and on the door/ramp, and on our floor for him to feel comfortable
Any other thoughts, questions, comments, concerns? I’ll post another post with an introduction of myself and Toby as well