If you are considering getting rabbits for pets, or if you have just taken that step, then one thing you will have to ensure that you do on a very regular basis is that you clean the rabbit cages where you will be keeping them. For many people, this is an unpleasant task, but then again, a task that many rabbit lovers do enthusiastically, as a 'labor of love.' After all, if you are keeping rabbits as pets, then you probably love them. And if you love them, you won't begrudge them of the little labor in cleaning their cages, for 'to love is to serve' - or so someone said.
There are a number of reasons why you need to clean rabbit cages regularly.
The main one is because the urine of rabbits is one of the smelliest variety, you know, the sort that gives a pungent ammonia smell within a very short period of time if it is not cleaned. And so pungent is the smell of rabbit urine that their continued exposure to it (if you don't take to cleaning the rabbit cages regularly) could see them come to infected with conditions like pneumonia. In short, it is the strongest of urine smells, one that you wouldn't want to expose your rabbits to.
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Why You Need to Clean Rabbit Cages Regularly
