I bought a rabbit cage with metal bars on the ground, help! how can i cover them so my rabbits feet won't hur?

Question

The cage is pretty big. The cage has metal black bars all around, including the bottom so when it poops, u can just pull out the tray it poops on and wash it. But i thought it was a birds cage....anyways i read online that metal bars on the ground hurts a rabbits feet, how can i cover it up? i dont' think newspaper will do it cuz their feet will get inky and dirty.

please help!! x]

Answer 1

Put some sort of plastic platform in the middle of the cage. I saw people with rabbits doing that.

Answer 2

A towel?

Extra bedding?

Answer 3

put lots of hay or bedding on your cage and also attach it's water where it can reach it

Answer 4

it probably doesnt actually hurt them they are just getting use to it. but if you really think that its hurting it just take a piece of wood or something to cover some of the bars so that your rabbit has a place to go off the metal bars. my rabbit has metal bars on the bottom and is not bothered by them

Answer 5

Put down hay and a little blanket. If they walk on the metal bars it will hurt their feet as the toes have to spread the wrong way to walk on the metal.  

Answer 6

idk. that's hard, but your gonna have 2 get a new cage.

Answer 7

take our ginea pig and your rabbit...and drown them in the  bathtub. This way your rabbit can never feel pain again. and as for the gineapig it justplan sucks.

Answer 8

hey! i have a guinea pig and have the same problem!

what i did was put extra beddging in the bottom and my guinnea pig is tottaly compfy, but make sure its not woodchip bedding :)

Answer 9

i have a cage just like that. i notice that it hurted my rabbit feet so i remove it. so all i have is just the tray on the bottom and i got my rabbit a litter tray so it could learn how to p**p in one place and the other for it space to hang around.

the bar on the bottom has this little opening, so what i did was try to open it big enough so i can pull it out. i hope this help you  

Answer 10

newspaper, it works reasonably good until you can find something better

Answer 11

An open cardboard box with bedding on it.

Answer 12

We used to show rabbits when I was a kid and all of them had wire cages.  We just used pieces of masonite siding in the bottom of their cages so they could get off the wire.  And it gave them something to chew on.