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Forum THE LOUNGE Moonshine! Why?!

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    • Sonn
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        Moonshine is almost completely blind but has adapted to my house and where everything is. Maybe a little too much. 

        I buy 50 lbs boxes of oxbow hay at a time. It is usually stored in the rabbit room without any issues. Neither bunny has ever shown any interest in the box other than to sit on top of it and look down at the dogs. And it is gone within 2 weeks so I just leave it in the box it comes in.

        Lately I have noticed that whenever something startles him he will run behind the hay box and squish himself between the wall and the box. 

        Last night Gypsy was out playing in my bedroom and living room while Moonshine had the rabbit room and dining room. 

        The thing about Gypsy is she is a loafer. She spends most of her out of cage time just loafing around. But sometimes she gets spurts of energy and wants to play with toys. And when she wants to play with toys she wants to make as much noise as possible. Last night she decided banging her toys and throwing them against my bedroom wall was a brilliant idea. 

        Moonshine being further away wasn’t bothered. But he has decided to come into the hallway for some pets at the same moment Gypsy decided to let her loudest toy sail against the wall. Moonshine was gone in a flash. 

        Me being me did not close the top of the hay box when I gave the rabbits hay yesterday evening. Moonshine being Moonshine in a panic and not seeing well barreled straight into the box head first. 

        The box topples over with a loud boom and suddenly my white cat who had been roaming around was now a green hay cat with eyeballs and he was not pleased at all. Moonshine took the opportunity to zoom inside of the box opening and refused to leave. 

        After coaxing him into his crate which I think makes him feel more secure since he calms down immediately. I looked at my poor floor. There was at least 20 lbs of hay scattered on the floor. And my poor cat was still just standing there glaring at me. 

        Cleaning up 20 lbs of hay out of carpet is not a fun ordeal and my cat is finding them very fun to pick out and eat! Stop it Popcorn! I am still finding pieces of hay in strange places like all of the way in my kitchen somehow. 

        He is now safely back into his condo no where near the box of hay which has been moved to my back room.


      • LittlePuffyTail
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          You have quite the house full! Totally made me lol!!!!

          You go through 50lbs of hay in 2 weeks????

          My cat Andy will eat hay and then pukes it up. I very often walk in a big wad of puked up hay while going from my bedroom to the kitchen in the morning. I’m pretty sure he does it as payback for not getting up and feeding him at 5:00 am when he asks.


        • Bam
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            That is a lot of hay to clean up!!! I buy hay in 1 lb bags and they last me a month and I think that gets messy!

            Luckily my dog doesn’t eat hay. That’s the only bunny-food she doesn’t eat. Everything else she’ll steal from the buns the first chance she gets. Kale, cabbage, carrots, celery, pellets, fruit – she steals it.

            Bunnies do like to squish themselves in into narrow spaces when they get scared. Well actually not just when they get scared. I guess it gives them a sense of being in a burrow.


          • MoxieMeadows
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              Whew that’s a lot of hay! Moxie goes through about 7.5 pounds of hay a month, and it still gets everywhere!


            • Sonn
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                50 lbs in 2 weeks. I’m going to say at least 25-30%% of that ends up on the floor. Sweeping has become my second job. Especially with Gypsy’s obsession with digging in it. Gypsy is a hay hound. You rarely see her without her head stuck down in hay eating it. Moonshine will only eat Oxbow and he will only eat it at night.
                I measured how much hay he ate one night and it was close to 3lbs. I haven’t measured Gypsy’s yet since she seems to be eating hay 24/7. Ha.

                My dogs don’t eat the hay but my cat will chow down on it any chance he gets and then I will find ‘surprises’ in the kitchen. Eww.


              • Bam
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                  Goodness, you have a bunny that eats 3 lbs of hay in one night???? I’m impressed, to say the least. I wish I could get mine to eat more hay. You don’t happen to have any tips?

                  I too sweep every day, several times a day. Sweep, sweep, sweep.


                • MoxieMeadows
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                    Yes, any tips?


                  • Sonn
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                      Moonshine wouldn’t eat hay when I first got him or very little on a good day. I tried all of the tips and tricks I could find and he just wasn’t interested. I will say that he will not touch hay at all during the day no matter what I try it is pellets and veggies or he will starve himself all day long. He won’t eat it if it is in a hanging container like I have Gypsy’s in. He won’t eat it if he can’t feel it, like if I put it behind grids. If it is in his litter box that he uses he won’t eat it. So I found a deep cat litter box that he likes to sleep in (Booda dome clean step) and tried filling it to the top and he will literally have all of it eaten by the next morning. And he will only eat Oxbow brand. If I try any other brand he won’t touch it. Or if I try to switch from timothy it is a no-go.

                      I don’t know if it is because the litter box is like a cave or if it is because it is roomy or what but it works for him and he devours the hay inside of it and it contains the mess since he is a big bunny.

                      I’m thinking about getting miss diggy digs a lot one once they are bonded and I expand their whole cage to include 2 attached x-pens at the bottom.


                    • Bam
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                        I’ve been thinking about trying a litterbox like that for the buns, to see if they’d like it, now I feel really tempted to try it as a hay-dome. Do you have hay only in it or do you put litter in the bottom?

                        Oxbow hay is really expensive here, like 7-8 dollars for a 465 gram (1 lb) bag. It’s only sold here in those small bags.


                      • Sonn
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                          I put only hay in it. I am not sure how he manages it but he does not use it as a litter box. There are never pellets or urine in his dome.

                          Oxbow is not sold locally where I am. There are no pet stores within a few hours of me any longer and feed stores only sell local farm hay so I have to go online for rabbit food and hay. I get 50 lbs of hay for around $60-$63 shipped to me.


                        • Aubrey
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                            Where do you order it from? I need to bulk order Ophelia’s alfalfa because she goes through a 1 lb bag in 3 days. $8 per pound gets pricey and she’s only 8 weeks so I know she’s going to be going through more than that as she grows!


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                              Posted By Aubrey on 1/09/2016 9:46 PM

                              Where do you order it from? I need to bulk order Ophelia’s alfalfa because she goes through a 1 lb bag in 3 days. $8 per pound gets pricey and she’s only 8 weeks so I know she’s going to be going through more than that as she grows!

                              Drs Foster and Smith is where I usually get it but if I find it cheaper I go elsewhere. 

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