Rabbit  Hutches And Runs For Your Pet To Call Home

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 So you're looking to get a home for your rabbit ..or rabbits .. or small pet?

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Do have a look round, you'll find loads of rabbit hutches and runs here. See if you like anything.

Also, there are lots of little tips and hints tucked about the place, to help you chose the right hutch for your rabbit.

First off though, you want your pet bunny to be comfortable. You want your rabbit to be safe. You also want it to feel at home. So it needs: a warm, secure place to sleep, fresh food and water, lots of attention, and LOTS of excercise.

To a rabbit, being able to run and hop around in the sunshine, being able to sniff the air and rise up on his hind legs is part of his natural lifestyle. They need to be free to roam around every day for several hours a day. To take that away from your rabbit will stress and agitate him. That's why they need a run attached to their hutch. So that they can come and go at will.


What is the best rabbit home you can get? It’s the one that gives your precious pet the comfort you want him to have. There’s a belief circulating that bunnies can be perfectly happy in a cage, that all they need to find joy out of a life is some food, a little place to sleep and an hour or two of attention from a pet owner. Nothing could be more off base. Rabbits are not happy locked away in a cage where they can’t get the exercise they crave.

To a rabbit, being able to run and hop around in the sunshine, being able to sniff the air and rise up on his hind legs is part of his natural lifestyle. To take that away from him causes him stress and agitation.

Rabbits don’t need exercise ‘every now and then’ or ‘when the weather permits.’ They need to be free to roam around every day for several hours a day. They need a run along with their hutch so that they can come and go at will.

What you have to know about the best rabbit home for your bunny is that while he does need to have one with a run, you have understand the best place to set the run up. It’s a misconception to believe that a run can be put over any patch of grass and everything will be fine.

There are plants that are toxic to rabbits and if you’ve treated your lawn, that can be dangerous to the bunny, too. Taking care of weed control on a lawn is good lawn care sense but the chemicals used to kill the weeds can also kill the bunny if he eats it.

Rabbits are very lovable, very inquisitive animals that will explore everything they can see and touch. It’s the job of the pet owner to provide an area where the rabbit can freely sniff around and enjoy being outdoors.

The number one danger for a rabbit being outside in a run is a possible encounter with a predator. So you’ll want a run that’s sturdy enough to keep the dangers away from your pet. Never underestimate the craftiness of a predator. That’s one reason a hutch door with an easy to swing open latch is a bad idea. If you can open it with a twist of your fingers, so can a cat by swiping it with a paw.

Always know what’s going on in the run. When left alone outside for too long, rabbits will begin to dig in the soil and they’ll create holes in the yard. This is done because the rabbit instinctively tries to burrow. The best rabbit home is the one that gives your bunny protection and freedom at the same time. You can get both in a hutch that has a run as well.

Rabbit Hutches With Runs

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So you can get hutches with built in runs. Most commonly, you get the run and attach it to your hutch. It's all about choice ..

Outdoor Rabbit Hutches

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These are sturdy hutches designed to be used outside. They will give your pets somewhere cosy to shelter from the elements. They will protect them from bigger animals that want to eat them. And, with a run attached, your rabbits will be able to run around to their hearts content.

Wooden Rabbit Hutches

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Wooden rabbit hutches are strong and mostly solid. So they are very good at protecting small pets from the weather and less friendly animals.  They are spaceous. It's  easy to get to your bunny. They are easy to clean with pull out trays below the hutch.  And they look soooo smart.

Is a Wooden Rabbit Hutch Better Than a Rabbit Cage?

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You’re about to get a pet rabbit and wondering if a wooden rabbit hutch is a better buy than a rabbit cage. Let’s do some comparison and you can see what each one will do for your bunny.

You can find several styles in both kinds of homes for the bunny. You’ll see that they range from the very simple to almost bunny mansions. When the word cage is used in conjunction with bunnies, there’s a tendency to picture a teeny wire cage with a bunny cramped up inside of it. But you can buy sprawling two story cages that even have a detachable run available as a separate accessory.

Cages are made of small wire and though they are easy to clean, most of them don’t have a bottom to them that’s best for the rabbit. However, a few of them do have flooring. You can find some two-story cages that have a solid flooring on the upper half of them.

There are simple cages that come with hard bottoms and are made of metal. Regardless of whether you get a wire-bottomed cage or a metal-bottomed cage, you’d still need to cover it to protect your rabbit’s feet and to give him something comfortable to lie on.

On the plus side, cages are easy to clean and the bottom can come separate from the rest of the cage. They’re easy to take down, fold and transport if you need to travel with your pet or if you’re moving.

A wooden rabbit hutch can offer the same shelter as a rabbit cage. You can have two story ones with plenty of space, easy access to the bunny and easy to clean with pull out trays below the hutch.

They’re not as easy to take apart if you plan to take them elsewhere. However, they offer excellent care for the bunny. You can find wooden luxury models that look like little homes complete with a bunny walkway and raised sleeping quarters over a spacious run.

Both a cage and a hutch can be situated to open out into a run where your bunny can have space outside. Understand that any hutch or cage can be too small if you keep multiple rabbits in both.

Other than that, a hutch or a cage can offer adequate room to sleep and eat in. It used to be that cages were the most unattractive way to house a rabbit but with all the models and styles now, it’s not true.

So when you’re figuring out if a wooden rabbit hutch or a rabbit cage is the best choice for your pet, you’ll find that there will be things you’ll appreciate about either one. If you plan to keep your rabbit for the duration, you might want to think about getting a cage for the inside of your house and a hutch for the outside.