Wednesday, May 12, 2010

How do you look after an outdoor Rabbit?

I'm looking into getting a bunny but we have no room to keep it indoors-


i want to give her the nicest life she can possibly have how can i do that whilst keeping her outside? I'm worried because i hear they can suffer from heat stroke and predators such as foxes can hurt them and i want to keep her nice and healthy ( my mum says we can bring her inside for a little run but she has to live outside nearly all of the time! should i get a run for outside too??How do you look after an outdoor Rabbit?
I have two outdoor rabbits and they are perfectly happy. To be quite honest, I think they prefer being outside to being inside.





Get a hutch, hutch size depends on the size of the rabbit, you could try somewhere like Pets At Home - http://www.petsathome.com/find/keyword-i鈥?/a> or any local pet shop to get one, or build one yourself. It needs to be tall enough so the rabbit can stand on its back legs without hitting the top, wide enough for the bun to turn around and long enough for the rabbit to be able to do several hops in either direction. As long as the hutch is fairly high up and strong, foxes shouldn't be able to get at it. You should keep it where the is no direct sunlight into the hutch.





Defiantly get a run so it can hop around outside unsupervised and it will be able to munch on grass whilst it is out there. When it is warm, keep it in the shade and if you don't have any shade in your garden get a big umbrella/parasol to put over the run to keep it cool.





Also, you might want to consider getting more than one so It won't get lonely. Rabbits prefer other rabbit company to human company though they will still be very friendly towards you.





Hope that helps :D

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