Have been having a problem with Isabellas rabbit kits escaping the big cages, which I had thought were secured with hardware cloth and chicken wire. Luckily for me, lawnmower 1 and 2 came back several times to their moms cage, no doubt because they realized they needed her milk.
Stopped into a big box hardware store not near my house, and wandered around for a while trying to find hand shears, which I never did find, and also vinyl covered hardware cloth, which I absolutely need to fight the baby rabbit escaping problem. I had just previously bought a new dog crate to use as a rabbit tractor from rural king, where everything is easy to find. Except buckets. Wandered around. Checked the Fencing section. Checked the wood section. Checked out every section. Then finally decided to ask employee, who happened to be male.
"I'm looking for hardware cloth, preferably 1 cm by 1 cm, it's like a mesh, preferably vinyl coated, where is that on this store?"
Him, "Hmm. Not really sure, Trish do you know?" He asked as he stopped another employee.
So I described it again, and she said that the only cloth they carried was painter's drop cloth on the painting.
When I realizes how north this conversation was going, finally I (probably) literally rolled my eyes and said, "It's for the chicken coop." (I don't even have chickens.)
He pointed directly at one of the walls and said, "The chicken coop wire is right there."
When I made it over there, the hardware cloth was there, and I did find the vinyl coated stuff behind the other stuff. And it was called hardware cloth, I wasn't speaking a foreign language or using butter knife house repair tool language.
