Cleaning feet/hands?

[Yuki]

My rabbit absolutely HATES some one touching her feet or hands. But they are really dirty and need cleaning asap. Any tips on how to do that?

[Shadow13]

When I got my rabbit his paws were yellow and brown and just gross. All I did was make sure to keep his litter box and cage clean so it didn’t make it worse. It took about a week and a half to get them white. Now his paw are white with a little bit of yellow which is normal for rabbits with white feet since they will never be completely white.

[GeorgieTheBunny]

Given a tidy circumstance the situation should get better… Rabbits clean their paws

My first bun started getting green paws from chewing her lettuce so much she made swamp water out of it and would stand in it :/ I just started serving lettuce on a towel placemat problem solved itself

Not great to soak a rabbits’ feet if you can help it. It softens the fur and encourages hair loss on the bottoms (can develope sore hocks)

Is there something that happened that’s out of the ordinary? Did she hop onto a finger painting :p ?

[Moo <3]

Usually, the discoloration and dirt on her paws will fade overtime as new fur grows in. As long as you keep her in a clean environment, and regularly clean the litterbox, the color and smell should go away. Best of luck!!

[Yuki]

We clean her house every two or three days. She poops and pees in one corner/ side of it. We can’t use a litter box bc she chews on it & I really don’t know how to stop that : (
She keeps going and stepping where she did her thing, That’s why her feet is always dirty…
Also we use sawdust on that side, if that helps :/

[Bam]

You could perhaps try a metal litter pan? There are metal litter boxes, but you could probably find a stainless steel oven pan or sth. Sometimes things like that can be found in thrift shops or charity shops and it’s safe to buy because stainless steel can be throughly cleaned and then sterilized in the oven.

[GeorgieTheBunny]

Our local humane society has metal litter boxes for all the animals! They remind me of the stainless steel food servers that catering companies use.
It never occurred to me until @bam’s comment that the reason was because they could sterilize them!
If she doesn’t like having to hop into something you could always use a small metal baking sheet (the kind with ledges). You can use wood stove pellets as litter material, they’re fairly absorbent.

[Yuki]

Thanks for telling me! I’ll try these & I hope they work

[princessbookworm]

I’ll definitely have to try a metal litter box too!

When I first got my Julie, she was totally NOT ANYWHERE NEAR litter box trained lol. Even cleaning her cage three times a day and lining the entire cage with layers of fleece didn’t keep her from stepping in her own pee and poop occasionally. I would give her little bottom/foot baths every other night with just warm water in a shallow pan. I would work out any knots or yucky bits. Thankfully now, she’s doing much better litter training and keeping her paws more tidy but there is lots of info out there on butt baths!

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