Our two renegades rabbits are always looking for exploration and adventure. Often they try to find it beyond the barriers we put up to keep them out of certain areas. At first, opening up their exercise pen and placing the edges against the wall corralled them enough. Now, they realize they can shove and move the fencing enough to get beyond. I need a way to anchor the fence so they stop venturing beyond designated borders.
I started with sort of a three way corner thing to sit on the other side of the fence. I wanted to add weight so the brace would be harder to move. Boxing in the one leg segment and filling it with sand made the whole thing quite heavy. I glued on a lid to keep from spilling sand all over the house. I left off finish because I figured the little devils darlings would figure out how to chew on it through the fence.
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all started when I had an idea for a simple 3D print that would hold the fence segments if you screwed them to something sturdy. It seemed like a good idea, but eventually needed another iteration.
The brackets looked pretty good in wood filled PLA and held the fence well. The issue I ran into was when it came to actually holding the little beasties beauties back. On the first night they rattled it enough to knock two of the rungs off their hooks. It only took them a few hours to figure out how to chew on my new creation as well. Good thing I left off the finish. I was going to need a deeper hook to keep them from breaking the fence section loose.
In thinking about the design, it became apparent that the right half of that hook wasn’t needed. The wooden upright would act as one side of the hook, I just needed to provide the other side. I increased the hook size and stripped the part down till it was the bare minimum of what was needed.
A few clear grippy bumpers on the bottom along with the sand mean it is impossible to shift this thing. The new hooks ought to make it very difficult to disconnect the fence unless you are a human. The whole thing tucks neatly next to a piece of well protected heirloom furniture. Tyrion has been heavily inspecting and disapproving of my work since its installation. Their hunger for items you value knows no bounds.
As if allowing two long eared fuzzy ingrates in the house wasn’t enough, I eventually relented to us hosting a temporary visitor. A particular bun from the mean streets of Melbourne got picked up by a cop and needed a home for a short while so he could get fixed and make his way to the greater Orlando rescue group. I was expecting an ornery skittish bad bun. What I got instead was an incredibly sweet creature. Someone either lost him or kicked this guy out. Either way, they are losing out big time.
Next a length of pipe acted as a down spout. I start with only this downspout, but the pellets came out too quickly from the drop. They would hit the bowl and go everywhere. The bunnies didn’t mind the game of 52 pellet pickup, but some pellets would escape the fence.
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