Hagen Living World Hay Spinner - For Small Pet - WARM GREY

The Hagen Living World Hay Spinner holds a day's hay off the cage floor, where it stays clean enough to be eaten. That is the whole argument for a hay feeder, and it is a better one than it sounds -- hay scattered on the floor of a hutch gets sat on and urinated on, and then it gets thrown away.

Key Features

• Holds Hay Off The Floor: Hay that has not been slept on or soiled actually gets eaten, so you buy less of it
• Slows The Pulling: The openings make a pet take hay a few strands at a time rather than dragging a mouthful out and dropping it
• A Bit Of Work For The Food: Pulling strands through an opening is foraging, which is closer to how a rabbit or guinea pig would naturally eat
• Cleaner Cage: Less loose hay on the floor means less to muck out
• For: Rabbits, guinea pigs and chinchillas. Colour, warm grey

Hay Is The Main Food, Not The Bedding

Grass hay should make up the bulk of what a rabbit or guinea pig eats -- the usual figure given is around eighty per cent -- and it should be in front of them all day. It is what keeps the gut moving and what actually wears the back teeth down, since those teeth grow continuously. A pet that fills up on pellets instead ends up with dental disease and a slow gut. Keeping hay off the cage floor in a rack or feeder is worth doing for one plain reason: hay a pet has sat on or urinated on gets wasted rather than eaten.

Who Makes It

Living World is the small animal and bird brand of Rolf C. Hagen, the Montreal company founded in 1955. The range covers cages, hay feeders, houses, dishes and supplements for rabbits, guinea pigs, hamsters and cage birds.

Good To Know

• It is plastic, and plenty of rabbits chew plastic. Check the edges every week and replace it if pieces are being taken off rather than gnawed at -- swallowed plastic is a real problem in a rabbit.
• Do not let a feeder be the only hay. Keep a pile in the litter tray as well: most rabbits eat while they toilet, and a tray of hay is the easiest way to get more of it into them.
• Refill it at least daily and empty out the dusty remains at the bottom rather than topping over them.
• A rabbit or guinea pig that stops eating, stops passing droppings or sits hunched and still is an emergency, not a wait-and-see. A gut that stalls can kill within a day.