Keeping an indoor rabbit
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Hi!
I'm thinking about getting a dwarf rabbit, and I've been looking at cages etc for keeping one indoors. I was wondering if anyone could please give me any first-hand experiences of indoor rabbit-keeping? Are the cages a good idea, do you think? Is your rabbit happy living indoors?
Advice much appreciated, thanks!
I'm thinking about getting a dwarf rabbit, and I've been looking at cages etc for keeping one indoors. I was wondering if anyone could please give me any first-hand experiences of indoor rabbit-keeping? Are the cages a good idea, do you think? Is your rabbit happy living indoors?
Advice much appreciated, thanks!
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I love rabbits and would love another one
i prefer them to larger rabbits as they are a lot easier to handle and it's much much easier to give them enclosures which actually conform to the five freedoms
for an indoor space i would get them the plastic cages as they will be a lot easier to keep clean and odour free (no wood for urine to seep into & fester)
whichever gender you get (i've found my two males to be a lot better with being handled than my three females) i would look into getting them neutered - if you get a pair it's even more important then
it will calm them and make them less likely to spray (males) and prevent gender specific cancers (females, mostly)
I have an indoor rabbit (she's been with us for 3 years now), we have a plastic bottomed cage for her, we leave the top off most of the time and she uses it to eat her food/ go to the toilet/ lay in the hay, but apart from that she hops around the place and goes where she likes. I grew up with loads of animals, and my parents kept rabbits outside, but I got to see so much more of my rabbit's personality keeping her inside, and I'd be in stitches laughing at her escapades most days! She seems to like chasing tennis balls and I've often come home from work and my boyfriend is running about with his tie in his hand and she's right behind him chasing after it!
A word of warning though, you really do have to be careful with anything that is chewable, particularly electric wires, because rabbits will chew anything and everything.
Once you've the place rabbit proofed and you keep an eye out however, it shouldn't be an issue, they are very easy to look after.
Have fun!
Thanks again!
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I'd just say mind cables, skirting boards and stuff because they do like a chew now and then. Timothy hay is best for their teeth as its low in calcium. Rabbits also don't like too much noise, and certain noises scare them.
Some of my bunnies are scared of gun shots on the tv.
A cage is good to keep them in, stops them getting into to trouble, plus you won't really have to house train them then, because they'll go in a corner in their box.
Rabbits are lovely animals, and they will give you so much love back
Also there's some good books out there these days on house bunnies, so that would come in handy
Ours became litter trained very easily and all had fantastic personalities - very bright. We lost our last one a couple of years ago and were so devestated that our girl had gone that we couldn't face another one - she used to lie on her back showing her white tum and follow you around like a dog - oh and watch out they love toast and honey..
Getting all misty now - just remember they chew chew chew we lost the edges to all our skirting boards