It is great having an indoor bunny. You get to truly live with your pet and share your life with them. You also get to bond more closely with your rabbit than you would do if it only lived outside.
Once you decide to let your bunny live indoors, you will have to find a cage suitable for an indoor rabbit. Many indoor rabbit cages are wire topped, plastic bottomed affairs, which are somewhat ugly, I’ve always thought, and not very draft proof either.
Dec 19
So I decided that it was only fair that Wicket (the bunny) should have an outdoor home, a place where she could be safe outdoors when I got tired of her slashing at the furniture, getting underfoot, and tossing things around at 4am. I placed an order for an inordinately large hutch which comes in at:
1800mm long
900mm wide
800mm height
or if you happen to be one of the millions who have yet to embrace the simple supremacy of the metric system:
70 inches (5.8 feet) long
35.5 inches (2.95 feet) wide
31.5 inches (2.6 feet) high
So it’s pretty big. She’s used to having the run of my room at times, so you’d think that the cage, with it’s palatial ramp up to a second floor bedroom would be just what the doctor ordered, right? Wrong. She views the ramp with utmost suspicion and has yet to venture up to the second floor.
Her old cage was left next to the new one, and she did her best to try to climb into it through the wire, so I took pity on her and put the old cage inside the new cage. She leapt into it with great joy and peered out at the newfangled contraption that surrounded her with mistrust, though in the morning it was evident that she considered it good enough to use as a bathroom.
So essentially I just purchased a bunny a $300 toilet. Merry Christmas, Wicket.
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