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AShelBunny

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I had a family emergency and I have to leave the state, I have a week to prepare, and I'm struggling to find a house-sitter.

As a back-up, is there a way to put them on a five-day system? Maybe do a 5 gallon waterer and put 5 days of food in one of those big feeders? Not ideal but...

Help? Ideas? Suggestions?
 
I did a quick search for pet sitters in oklahoma, not sure where you are exactly but Rover.com popped with a fair amount of people available. Perhaps that might work for you? won't be cheap, but if you are pushed....if might be a needful solution.

and a five day solution... not really, a weekend...yes that they can do. You'd have to consider accidents and rabbits over-indulging. :) I don't know if you keep them in individual cages or colony style. Colony I can see being possible to leave them for five days, caged ... not so much. no nearby neighbours you can trust? Are they used to a well-rounded diet with hay, greens, pellets... or are they strictly pellet fed? if a well-rounded diet it's generally easier to get sitters (and less worrisome for you). Also means you have more options for getting a sitter every couple of days... Like tons of hay every other day along with pellets. and repeat. Depending on how you water them, that might be a bigger issue...
 
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i am working towards 48-72 hours feed and water in the system, but that is just hay and water, no pellets (mouse attractants) or anything else. More so i can be away overnight in case of family problems or ending up stranded from say car problems when picking up something a bit farther away.
But leaving morning day one and being back evening next day or late afternoon day after is as far as i want to go without someone checking in. Waterers can leak and bunnies can make a mess of their hay.
Having a system that simple though does mean i can have someone come by just once a day and feed some pellets along with topping up hay and water. Cleaning can wait untill i'm back, so easy 15min. max. job.
 
I'm not a social person in any way, but I do rely on people in my road for this. I pay a teen girl to care for my rabbits the few days I'm away, in the last year that was for a metal festival, christmas, and a family matter. I do have 2-3 backup persons I could ask to step in if there is any problem. Don't have social contact to them in everyday life, but this works fine for me. Actually, now there are even more people I would dare to ask since this romanian family moved here.

From my visits to the US I got the impression that society is less locally focused than it is here, but asking someone in the church community if they would have an idea would still be an option.

Don't think asking for help comes easy to me....
 
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