by Gunner Vance | Sep 8, 2026 | Backyard Chickens
An automatic chicken coop door is the rare piece of pet gear that is really a machine, and machines are the thing I actually know. Straight up front: I do not keep chickens. I have kept an English Mastiff, a crew of barn cats, two rescue rabbits and a desert tortoise,...
by Gunner Vance | Sep 8, 2026 | Reptiles
A leopard gecko tank is the one piece of gear people buy twice, because the box that suits a hatchling is not the box that suits an adult six months later. Straight up: I do not keep a leopard gecko. My one reptile is a desert tortoise who walked into our yard in...
by Gunner Vance | Sep 8, 2026 | Small Pets
I spent a full day on every hamster cage worth buying right now, ten of them, and I want to be straight with you before you read a word of it. I do not keep hamsters. What I do keep is a pair of rescue rabbits and a desert tortoise, in Henderson, Nevada. Small animal...
by Gunner Vance | Sep 8, 2026 | Rabbits
I keep rescue rabbits at home, and I have gone through a pile of rabbit litter box models over the years. A rabbit is not a cat, and the box has to know it. So I did what I do with any gear that matters to me. I spent a full day on every rabbit litter box worth buying...
by Gunner Vance | Sep 8, 2026 | Rabbits
I keep a couple of rescue rabbits, and I have owned a lot of rabbit hutch models over the years. Most of them let me down before the rabbits did. The first ones I built myself, shop metal and thick canvas, because that is what a mechanic reaches for. Then I started...