How do you sanitize unfinished wood on a rabbit's cage?harmfulpotential?

Question

My rabbit has recently died. We are not sure what he died from, he has been looking terrible for almost a year so it was a combo of something and old age as he was over 8 years old. Anyway we had made a cage and it had wood trimming that had been peed and "touched" by the rabbit. It doesn't smell, but i am afraid that it may be harboring some bacteria that may be harmful to a new rabbit if we choose to get another one, plus it has a grayish look from the litter that was in his "litter box"

So how should we clean it without it being harmfull to a potentail new rabbit.

Answer 1

Mix a cup or two of laundry bleach into a gallon of water.

Thoroughly spray the cage with the bleach solution, scrub off the dirt and crud, let it sit for a few hours and then rinse it really well with clean water.

Let it dry in the sun for a day or two.

The bleach kills almost any virus or bacteria, then you rinse off the bleach and let the sun take care of anything else.

I can't think of any harmful microbes or viruses that can survive the bleach/sunshine treatment.

And EIGHT!!!! That's absolutely ancient for a rabbit. You must have taken excellent care of him.