Bendy plastic strips?

[what..the?]

I am making a large indoor cage for my rabbit because it is a giant breed you cannot buy standard equipment, I standard indoor cage (plastic tray base with clip on wire cage on top) would be too small. I am already using a wire rabbit run/puppy playpen (pictured in link)

http://www.bitsforpet...-park6-rabbit-run.jpg

Only problem being the rabbit keeps jumping out as it is open topped my other woo rabbits don't jump out of their runs at all but this new rabbit is mad.

I have lookied at buy the same type of cage/run but with a wire roof and they are either too expensive or too small, or not suitable for indoors as require to be staked in grass.

So I have decided to create chicken wire panels which I can attach to form a roof to the roof panels as apposed to one solid piece of chicken wire this way I can flap open sections to get the rabbit out/feed/clean.

Only outstanding problem is all the wood shaving coming out on the floor that you don't get with a standard cage because they have high plastic sided bases to keep everything inside. In the past I have cut strips of cardboard and slid them in and weaved in out out through the bars at the lowest point of the wire run this works well. But being cardboard it doesn't last long. I need plastic which I can cut to size unless it's already the right size to fit the gap between the bottom of the run and the first horizontal bar (this is 14.5 cm) any ideas what I should look for at the garden centre or DIY, I could wander round for ever just looking at random things, so really need help, if anyone knows something that might work for this it has to be a wipe able material which has a bit of give/bend so I can weave it in and out the bars.

[TonyV]

Have a google for PVC strip suppliers nearby you

[The Builder]

Try here, Whatters..............................

http://www.nationalpl...,&,Trims/Window,Trims

[lankeela]

Try googling Croft - they make puppy pens with a plastic base and a wire top - you can buy panels individually or accessories.

[lankeela]

http://www.croftonlin...y_Areas_and_Pens.html

[TonyV]

what the - what are you going to put under the cage, to hold the wood shavings? Although this is a manufacturer - may give you some leads to a supplier - shame if you could'nt construct a full litter tray to suit the cage you construct ie with a sheet of material then hot glued on sides. How large is the cage going to be?
http://www.rhnuttall....Strips/PVC_Strip.html

[mrs_overall]

If you have no joy let me know...I have some nice recipes

[TonyV]

Mrs O - you have recipe for giant?

[mrs_overall]

Giant, pygmy, lop eared - all the same in the pot

[mrs_overall]

...and you could make some fabulous gloves xx

[TonyV]

Mrs O - Wild tastes better IMO

[mrs_overall]

Tony - you are so right, but those horrid metal lumps play havoc with my teeth

[TonyV]

don't have use metal lumps to kill a rabbit lol - Anyway getting a bit off topic and What the .... probably will not like us discussing which breed of rabbit tastes best and how it is best trapped dispatched - lol - need to start a new thread in food and drink

[mrs_overall]

Apologies to what...the for going off the subject....but TonyV is to blame :-)

[mrs_overall]

Very true Trim

[TonyV]

Appologies Mrs O - none needed from me - who is appointioning blame
Someone posted

If you have no joy let me know...I have some nice recipes
15:37 Sun 08th May 2011 Report

Who posted this? Doh - not me - lol

[mrs_overall]

Blimey, where is your sense of humour Tony?

[TonyV]

Sorry Mrs O - did'nt see the smile on your face lol lol - I have a great sense of humour - but can be a little bit like Oscar Wilde
http://www.youtube.co...ayer_detailpage#t=44s

[mrs_overall]

a little like Oscar Wilde?

Tony -your sexual preferences are of no concern to me :-)