Green Rabbit Tips
- Buy food and hay in bulk. By buying your food and other rabbit supplies in bulk, you are reducing packaging waste. Food can be frozen to keep it fresh for longer.
- Recycle for rabbits. Reuse items that would otherwise have been thrown out. Your bun can delightfully shred cardboard boxes, toilet paper tubes, paper bags, old phone books, newspaper, junk mail, and more. Clean plastic caps from laundry detergent to soda bottles make great toys for your bun to throw around.
- Thrift for Thumper. Check out garage sales and thrift stores for small plastic children’s toys such as slinkies, plastic keys, small balls, small plastic cat toys, and even baby gates! You might even be able to find puppy pens and crates that people no longer want. Don’t forget to check CraigsList and FreeCycle. By reusing items others would have thrown out, you are reducing the amount of stuff that winds up in a landfill.
- Grow a vegetable garden! It’s easy to grow your bun’s favorite veggies in your backyard or in pots on a windowsill. By growing your own veggies you know it hasn’t been treated with nasty chemicals. If you can’t grow your veggies, support organic and local farmer’s markets. Organic farming keeps harmful pesticides out of your bun’s food and out of our environment. Supporting local farms helps reduce carbon emissions from transporting produce over long distances.
- Compost rabbit waste. Most rabbit-safe litters are decomposable, and rabbit poop makes one of the best-known fertilizers. Start a compost pile in your yard, and use the compost to fertilize your grass, flowerbeds and vegetable gardens.
- Use plant based cleaning supplies, or make your own. Equal parts white vinegar and water in a spray bottle should be the only cage cleaner you will ever need. It’s safe on the environment and for your rabbits.
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