Litter boxes are not made for bunnies - they are made for cats and bunnies have completely different needs. Well... let me rephrase that. Bunny owners have different needs. We need bunnies not to eat their boxes, and boxes made for cats give no effs about that. Cats won't eat anything. Just as an aside - they have started making litter boxes for dogs now too. Which is odd.
So when my last order of litter boxes came a week ago - it all of a sudden created a crisis at the snarkolepsy household. You see - the company made the most minor of changes to the box on the left. Basically flaring this lip just a tiny bit more. But it took my girl exactly 30 seconds to notice that and start chewing.
We realized at that point they were phasing the old design out and set to the internet to buy as many of the old type as we could before they were all gone. We even stopped by three local stores. We managed to get the last 5 on the face of the planet. Petco literally looked through their whole supply chain and found us 5.
2 came from Virginia, 1 is coming from Oklahoma and 2 from Kansas. That is comedy. I'm not sure that is the cheapest way to get litter boxes. But it will give us the better part of half a year to find a suitable replacement or a hopeful redesign. But this is the stupid stuff that we have to go through every year or two when they redesign a litter box to please bunnies. It really eats up way more time than you'd expect and it's ridiculous.
Litter boxes for dogs are because alot of folks with toy and small breeds litter box train them, rather than try to get them outside every time the tiny bladder says it has to go.
ReplyDeleteGood luck with the litter box hunt! I thought finding a box that a picky cat would use was a pain, but at least they don't eat them!
You could use an electric heat knife to slice the excess lid lip off the gray one ...
ReplyDeleteThe gnawing is happening probably only because there's enough lip for that kind of leverage.
I was thinking about cutting it down but the unfinished edge might product the same result. The heat knife would at least make it less jagged and hopefully less attractive to chew. But.... all bunnies have is time. So anything that stands out to them is fair game.
ReplyDeleteThe tiny dog litter boxes ~almost~ work. So close.