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My pros and cons of free ranging
Pros
- Its so lovely to see them 'free' they do act so differently. Sooty and Oreo would dart and sprint and binky about like mad buns something they have never done in their shed and avairy even though they have the space.
- Good exercise for the bun (and you (see below) :lol
I have a paved back yard and my bunnies are able to graze on the dandelions that grow between the slabs. This is a natural foraging behaviour which they can't do anywhere else
Cons
- Once a cat chased Sooty round and round the garden - even though I was there 'supervising' there was nothing I could do about it, scary!! it was like a scene out of Tom and Jerry with me in my dressing gown - i laugh now but not funny at the time and im so lucky Sooty hid and the cat ran away eventually.
Buy yourself a water sprayer from any diy store (gardening dept). Keep it handy at free range time!
- Buns can fit through the smallest of spaces. Oreo squeezed under a inch gap under my gate into a road and was missing for about 5/6 hours - again I was supervising from the kitchen window - I was watching and it was literally a minute and he was gone!!
- Its hard to get them in - Sooty and Oreo can be bribed with pellets, Charlie on the other hand is a devil and will have me on the chase - not good fun when you are trying to get them in because it is pouring with rain!