There’s no reason why you can’t keep your rabbit (and your rabbit hutch) indoors

So you’ve done your research, purchased or built your rabbit hutch, got your rabbit and now it’s time to think about the fun you can have with a pet rabbit.

Of course rabbits are outdoors creatures, and if you’ve got a good run around the rabbit hutch then you should let him play in the rabbit run each day, both for fun for you both and for exercise for your rabbit.

However as well as playing with your rabbit outdoors it’s perfectly possible to bring a rabbit indoors for some pet fun.

Bunny the Rabbit
Image via Wikipedia

The first thing to know is that rabbits can be housetrained, or what is sometimes called potty trained. Like all pets that can be housetrained it takes a little work but it’s worth it in the long run. But house training your rabbit is not what we wanted to talk about today.

We wanted to look at some of the things that you can do to give both you and your rabbit a fun time together in the house.

Rabbits love to explore and they also love to find small holes to explore. Offer him a small dark hiding hole and chances are he will want to get in there. So there’s lots of potential to provide your rabbit with fun playthings.

Be inventive. Plastic pipes used in plumbing are cheap, can be cut easily and can be the source by lot of rabbit fun. And if you experiment a little with things that may make fun rabbit toys you can design a rabbit play area where both you and he can have tons of fun.

But you’ve also got to be careful. Be aware that rabbits are happy to poke their nose, or their entire body, into small holes, and so before you bring your rabbit indoors you must examine the area where he will be to see if there are any holes where, if he disappeared in there, he is not at risk of getting hurt or stuck.

Examine his proposed play area with a very keen eye for any potential hazards.

Remember as well that rabbits like to eat greens, so if he has the chance he will probably start to eat your houseplants, which won’t be good for the plants and which may also not be good for the rabbit.

Don’t let your rabbit roam the house, there are potential hazards. Confine him to one room or to one specific area, check it for hazards, then fill it with fun rabbit playthings and you and your rabbit can have hours of fun indoors, even when the weather is dreadful outside.

And of course you can also house your rabbit indoors. There is no reason why a good rabbit hutch should not be housed indoors, but always remember that your rabbit needs daily exercise and average rabbit hutches are too small to allow for sufficient exercise.

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