Why Not Buy A Rabbit And A Rabbit Hutch For The Children?

Rabbits make a wonderful pet for children. They are small enough to be held comfortably by a child, they are cheap to buy and they are cheap to feed, they aren’t noisy, they won’t bark at the neighbours and they don’t live as long as a cat or a dog so parents won’t be looking after the rabbit after the children have left home.

Not only that but they can be an indoors pet as well as an outdoors pet.

A rabbit hutch is comprised of two main living areas. The first is a sleeping area where he should be able to sleep out of the weather to keep warm. The second is an outdoors run where he can run and jump as rabbits do.

The rabbit hutches that you find in pet shops are generally too small. They are too small for one rabbit let alone two. Rabbits are extremely active and need lots of exercise and for this reason most rabbits are unable to get sufficient quality exercise in a small hutch.

If you wish to keep his hutch outdoors you can exercise him using a dedicated rabbit run, which is an area of the garden fenced off to protect your rabbit from predators and which is accessible from the rabbit hutch.

But if you wish it is also perfectly possible to keep your rabbit indoors by putting his rabbit cage in, say, the laundry, anti will be warm and dry there.

And whether you decide to keep his rabbit hutch indoors or outdoors it still needs cleaning.

You should also be aware that rabbits do not like walking on wire so it’s best to avoid wire on the floor of the hutch.

Just the same as for outdoors rabbits, indoors rabbits need plenty of exercise and time out of his hutch each day.

Why not have a room set aside in the house for rabbits daily exercise. Taking him out of the hutch, playing with him and exercising him is the best part of having a rabbit.

And rabbits can also be house trained as well.

However before you allow your rabbit to play in his play area you need to do a thorough inspection because rabbits are very quick to disappear into holes, and can become stuck there. Do a full inspection of your rabbit play area for any dangerous holes.

Then why not cut up a few plastic pipes for him to play in and watching enjoy himself in his room.