WuLi77 Cute Straw Easter Rabbit Bunny for Easter Rabbit Decorations

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Cardboard is an excellent choice for comfortable absorbent bedding, whether you buy commercial cardboard bedding or shred a plain old cardboard box. Shredded paper can make excellent bedding. It’s soft, absorbent, and safe to eat, provided you take the safety precautions outlined above. Buy pre-shredded paper, or let your bunnies do the job themselves. Paper Pulp Bedding Bedding isn’t essential. However, it can greatly increase your pet’s comfort and protect your rabbit’s feet. Monitor your rabbit’s hay intake, and ensure they eat enough to maintain proper digestion and dental health. 4. Hunger

Natural materials make the most comfortable bedding. They’re less expensive than highly processed bedding, also. Different From LitterClean bedding is important for your rabbit’s health and hygiene. Soiled bedding can attract flies, rats, and other pests, as well as encourage mould and mildew growth. Commercial fleece blankets can be expensive. You can reduce this cost by purchasing fleece by the yard, or by buying a human-sized fleece blanket and cutting it into many blankets that you can switch out regularly. How Often Should You Change Your Rabbit’s Bedding? Nobody wants their house to smell putrid just because their rabbit had to pee. Straw used as rabbit bedding can help reduce the odor that comes from rabbit pee. Straw Bedding for Rabbits: Pro #6 If you can’t seem to get your rabbits away from the straw, then you should consider replacing their straw bedding with something else. There are many better bedding options for rabbits than straw which doesn’t have very good absorbent qualities. Fleece bedding, aspen shavings and recycled paper fluff make great choices! Fulfill Their Need to Chew Yes, rabbits can sleep on straw bedding. Rabbits can actually sleep on hay or straw, but as we mentioned above, straw is warmer bedding for rabbits than hay, keeping your bunny more comfortable in the winter months.

Wood pellet cat litter can be an excellent, inexpensive option for rabbit bedding. Alternately, you could use it in your rabbit’s litter box. Just remember not to use the same material for both bedding and the litter box. Aspen Wood Shavings This should be a given. Your rabbit wants and needs to be clean. Rabbits sleep on the hay or straw that you place in their cage; so, be the friend that your rabbit deserves and place fresh, clean straw ( here’s an example) down for your rabbit friend to sleep on. 6. Happy Rabbit Keeping a fresh, clean layer of straw bedding down for your rabbits will also cut out the damp and dirty environment that insects (e.g. flies) love. Bugs are also attracted to damp spaces, leaving room for potential insect or bug-related diseases. 5. Clean RabbitThere are a lot of wood-based beddings on the market, and many are quite good. However, some types of wood do not make the best rabbit bedding, so it’s important to be careful. Wood Pellets Shredded paper (for example Fitch, Carefresh confetti and Petlife Safebed) varies in texture and absorbency depending on the type of paper that has been shredded. The softer the paper the better, both for comfort and absorbency. If there was print on the paper before it was shredded then there may be issues with the ink if your rabbits ingest it. As always, keep an eye on what your rabbits are eating.

Thin, stringy, or wiry green stems, sometimes smaller hollow stalks (depending on the type of hay). Your bunny’s bedding should be different from the material with which you line the litter box. This will help your bunny to understand which areas of its enclosure are for sleeping and which are for eliminating. What to AvoidWhether you use shredded paper bedding, paper pellets, or compressed paper, paper-based bedding can make an outstanding bedding for your pet rabbit. Even though it’s not technically bad, straw isn’t that good for your rabbits either. So, if they start to prefer straw over other foods for some reason, there are some ways to combat it. Of course, you should get to the root of the problem first. Make Slight Dietary Changes There are multiple types of foods and hays that you can give your rabbit, and it may take some time to find the right combo. But it’s definitely better than eating straw. Replace Straw Bedding Straw works as a great insulator, providing your rabbit with a warm bed to nestle and snuggle in when the days get cold. Since straw is the dry stalks of cereal plants, the hollow stalks allow for warm air to be trapped, which provides a warm and insulated environment for your rabbit. Straw Bedding for Rabbits: Pro #2

Dried grass, like hay and straw, is not particularly absorbent. It can also be difficult to keep clean. Fabric Bedding Image by lilmedia, under Pixabay license, via Pixabay It should also be different from the material you use to line your litter tray. It’s good if your subtrate can control odor, but even less absorbent materials can work well if you change them out often enough. Both indoor and outdoor enclosures can benefit from bedding. If your rabbit doesn’t have access to enough fresh, high-quality hay, they might eat straw as a fiber source. Straw isn’t intended to be a food source for animals. It just has no nutritional value. It’s kind of like your rabbits eating empty carbs. They get full, but they don’t get anything out of it. There’s no need for emergency care.That all being said, it may be dangerous for your rabbits to eat large amounts of straw. Or, if they start refusing their other food for straw. We’ll talk more about that in a moment. But now, let’s talk more about the root of the problem. Why Are My Rabbits Eating Straw? Straw is an excellent absorbent, allowing for a much cleaner and drier rabbit cage. Although it’s good to replace pee-soaked or dirty straw with clean straw, absorbing the pee is a temporary fix until the straw is replaced. This helps keep your rabbit from living in a urine-dampened habitat. Straw Bedding for Rabbits: Pro #4 Straw also works great as nesting material. The warmth, comfort, and absorbent properties of straw bedding all help ensure that “mommy-rabbit” and the soon-to-be-born-baby bunnies (called kittens) are properly cared for. Straw Bedding for Rabbits: Pro #5 Yes, straw is good bedding for rabbits. It keeps your rabbit(s) warm and comfortable, works as a great absorbent, keeps the cage clean, works as great nesting material, and many other reasons, all of which we’ll discuss in more detail below. Straw Bedding for Rabbits: Pro #1 Paper is also virtually dust free. And it can’t harm your bunny through digestion, absorption, or inhalation.