Keep your rabbit safe, rabbit proof your home

Generally, rabbit proofing involves three basic things. First, this is to prevent destruction of your property. Second, this will ensure the protection of your rabbits and lastly, this provides a safe and fun chewing four your bunnies.

You might ask why rabbit proofing is so important to your home. Here is a brief answer. Rabbit proofing prevents rabbits from chewing on electrical cords which might cause injury to your rabbit. They might be burned or electrocuted. When they bite electric wires, puts your rabbit at risk so it is best that you do necessary precautions to keep the cords safely and out of their reach. Here are ways to do that.

Keep electrical cords out or reach through “spiral cable wrap”. It is basically 10 feet long and this works as bunnies don’t intend to chew it. However, there are bunnies who manage to chew through it. This spiral cable warp is very much flexible so you can still manage the cords after wrapping it. It is perfect if you have cords that are in the middle of the room or cords that you move often such as vacuum cleaner, lamp, telephone and the like. Keeping cords in this manner makes it tidy and it is not bulky too.

You can also perform plastic tubing. This is basically the same with the one used in fish tanks. You can buy it at the hardware and slit it lengthwise with a blade and the wires can be tucked in safely inside it. There is also the harder type, black, pre-slit type of tubing available.

You can keep cords safely by using decorative gold and wood-grained wire-concealers. Ii sticks to the base of your walls that come in strips, corners, and other parts so it can follow the shape of the wall. However, this is costly and can take so much of your time compared to clear plastic tubing installation but then using this method is much more permanent and rabbit proof as well. Read the rest of this entry

Taking care of your things from your pet rabbit

Rabbits make great pets and they love to chew on things. They love chewing house plants, baseboards, chairs, furniture, beds and even walls. To keep your bunny from chewing on these stuffs, here are tips on how rabbit proof so as to avoid any damage to your precious things.

Rabbits love to chew house plants. To keep your rabbit from eating house plants, here is what you are going to do. Putting them on high furniture may not keep your rabbit away. So it is best that hang the house plants from the ceiling if you have a hyper bunny but you have to watch for leaves. There are many house plants that are toxic to rabbits. So if you are unsure which plants are toxic, you can research on what plants are poisonous to rabbits.

Rabbits also love to chew on baseboards and wooden furniture and if they insist in doing so, you can place a board over the places of temptation. This makes it inaccessible to them and also provides an acceptable chewing surface. More so, if you are going to use this method, it is important that you train them on chewing on these items.

Upholstered furniture and beds that are several inches off the ground makes a wonderful place for rabbits to hide underneath it. However, there are rabbits will burrow up the soft underside and makes it a nest. To prevent your rabbits from doing this, place a flat cardboard box or a frame of 2x4s that is smaller than the area of the future base. This will definitely keep the rabbit out.

Your walls need protection too as rabbits love to chew on them as well. You can buy clear plastic panels from hardware stores near you or plastic supply stores. Clear plastic panels can ascertain that the walls are protected against your rabbit chewing into the sheet rock or tearing off or wallpaper. Moreover, you can move furniture over the chewed spot so as to conceal the damage and protect it from further chewing.

Rabbits are cute little pets and as a pet owner, you have to protect your things from being chewed by your bunnies. Rabbits love chewing and you can’t prevent them from chewing so the best alternative is rabbit proofing your things.

Rabbits are wonderful animals and keeping them happy and protecting your things from damage makes your relationship much more nice and wonderful. Rabbits as pets are truly rewarding.

There’s some confusion over what a rabbit run really is.

There’s some confusion over the different terms used for housing for rabbits. You will often see the words rabbit run, rabbit hutch, rabbit cage and rabbit run used interchangeably. For instance there are some websites that sell both rabbit runs and rabbit hutches and when you look at the 2 it’s difficult to tell the difference between the runs and the hutches.

In both cases they are housing for rabbits.

There is in our view however a different meaning for the term rabbit run. In our view a rabbit run is an outdoors area where your rabbit can play and exercise safely. It is usually surrounded by some form of wire netting or fence so that predators such as dogs and boxes cannot attack the rabbits and so that the rabbits do not disappear.

Many rabbits are kept indoors. There’s no problem with keeping a rabbit indoors as long as you allow him time outside to exercise and play. Rabbits are naturally energetic creatures and love to run and jump. Not only that but just like people rabbits become unhealthy and overweight if they eat too much and exercise too little.

Like all of us rabbits need to stretch their legs, get the wind in their fur and go for a good run.

And if you watch native rabbits you will see that they also play from time to time. Rabbits like to play but cannot do so in a small rabbit hutch.

If you have an indoors rabbit then put some thought into how you can give him some outdoors playtime, preferably every day but if not every day then as often as possible. It’s not too difficult to design your own rabbit run, you can either have a permanent fixture with posts set into the ground and chicken wire around the posts, or you can have interlocking wire panels that can be assembled for use or taken apart for storage or to move them round. Read the rest of this entry