AmyKennedy
Young Bun
Hey guys! This is my first time posting on this forum, so sorry if i do something wrong, and it looks like an awesome place hehe.
So anyway, I currently don't have any rabbits, but am looking into rescuing a pair or possibly fostering with a local shelter. I've been looking at hutches but for a good sized one it can get very very expensive, and they kinda look like a pain to put in toys, clean out, and get to the rabbits. xx
So my main question is what is the best alternative way to keep them? I said before that large hutches are very expensive, but money isn't really an issue, i have a few hundred pounds for the "start up costs" of getting rabbits.
Also, I have a "summerhouse" in my garden, its kinda just like a big shed i guess XD Its inside smallest dimensions are 7'6" by 9'7". It is waterproof, and has electricity and light inside, but isnt very warm (although i do have a plug in radiator i use when in there). I would quite like to build some sort of large pen inside of it, as part of it has my desk, and thats where i study and stuff, but if i need to i guess i could do something else. Also it has two pretty large openable windows. The main three problems i see with keeping rabbits in here is that it isnt normally much warmer than outside, but i dont think thats a huge problem (?), the floor is just like plain wooden planks, and the whole front side of the summerhouse is glass panels. I dont know the exact word for them, but they are like a wall of 4 seperate panels, made of glass and wood, like in a grid shape? Two of them are the double doors which open outwards. Sorry for all the detail about it, i just dont really know whats relevant and what isnt XD
It's built on a patio bit at the back of my garden, but there is steps up to it, so if they needed a run on the grass it couldnt be connected, and a run on the patio (connected) could be maximum of about 10ft by 3ft (this is a guess, i havent measured it).
If this isnt useable, whats my next best option? Should i buy some sort of shed, or like a wooden playhouse type thing and rabbit proof it? Do i need to connect a run to whatever enclosure they have? Does a run need to be on the grass? Do i need to just get a hutch? My mum wont let me keep them indoors in the actual house so that isnt an option.
Also if i do build a pen or something in the summerhouse, how do i go about it? what should i do about the flooring because im pretty sure they cant be on wood because it might rot or something if it gets wet? and i cant clean it properly?
Thankyou to anyone who answers, and sorry again if any of the questions are stupid, but i've never owned rabbits before.
*Sorry i forgot to originally mention, i feel they would also be better in the summerhouse than a hutch because i have a dog and hopefully will soon be getting cats, and we have a dogflap, so they can go in the garden at night time, or whenever and i dont know how they would react to rabbits. *
So anyway, I currently don't have any rabbits, but am looking into rescuing a pair or possibly fostering with a local shelter. I've been looking at hutches but for a good sized one it can get very very expensive, and they kinda look like a pain to put in toys, clean out, and get to the rabbits. xx
So my main question is what is the best alternative way to keep them? I said before that large hutches are very expensive, but money isn't really an issue, i have a few hundred pounds for the "start up costs" of getting rabbits.
Also, I have a "summerhouse" in my garden, its kinda just like a big shed i guess XD Its inside smallest dimensions are 7'6" by 9'7". It is waterproof, and has electricity and light inside, but isnt very warm (although i do have a plug in radiator i use when in there). I would quite like to build some sort of large pen inside of it, as part of it has my desk, and thats where i study and stuff, but if i need to i guess i could do something else. Also it has two pretty large openable windows. The main three problems i see with keeping rabbits in here is that it isnt normally much warmer than outside, but i dont think thats a huge problem (?), the floor is just like plain wooden planks, and the whole front side of the summerhouse is glass panels. I dont know the exact word for them, but they are like a wall of 4 seperate panels, made of glass and wood, like in a grid shape? Two of them are the double doors which open outwards. Sorry for all the detail about it, i just dont really know whats relevant and what isnt XD
It's built on a patio bit at the back of my garden, but there is steps up to it, so if they needed a run on the grass it couldnt be connected, and a run on the patio (connected) could be maximum of about 10ft by 3ft (this is a guess, i havent measured it).
If this isnt useable, whats my next best option? Should i buy some sort of shed, or like a wooden playhouse type thing and rabbit proof it? Do i need to connect a run to whatever enclosure they have? Does a run need to be on the grass? Do i need to just get a hutch? My mum wont let me keep them indoors in the actual house so that isnt an option.
Also if i do build a pen or something in the summerhouse, how do i go about it? what should i do about the flooring because im pretty sure they cant be on wood because it might rot or something if it gets wet? and i cant clean it properly?
Thankyou to anyone who answers, and sorry again if any of the questions are stupid, but i've never owned rabbits before.
*Sorry i forgot to originally mention, i feel they would also be better in the summerhouse than a hutch because i have a dog and hopefully will soon be getting cats, and we have a dogflap, so they can go in the garden at night time, or whenever and i dont know how they would react to rabbits. *
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