Is this hutch arrangement OK?

Well, Tweed got into trouble this week, discovering how to loosen the wallpaper and dig (and chew) out the plasterboard. He's been in his own room for months now and never tried to chew anything but we had to go out for the day on Tuesday and I think he was lonely - hence the damage. He has always had lots of room, and toys and hay and wood chews, but I guess he has been depending on me visiting him during the day for play and cuddles, and being alone in a quiet house all day was too much for him. I don't really care about the damage - easily fixed, but I'm sure it's not good for him to chew plaster, and now that he's started, I don't know that I can stop him! The other problem is I'm sure he is lonely and as I can't let him into other parts of the house (due to the dogs), and I can't get another rabbit, I thought it would be nice for him to have the cavies for company? CAN cavies be company for a rabbit? (I know not to mix them). What I need to know from you all is is this hutch arrangement OK till I can get something bigger? The cavies are on one side, netting divider so they can socialise but not mix, the length of each hutch is 47 inches (120cm), the depth or width 25 inches (64cms) and the height 19 inches (48cms). Tweed has his toilet, little carpet square, sleeping box and lots of hay. He can hop from toilet onto carpet and onto top of sleeping box and back again, in other words, he can hop about a bit within the hutch. He can also stand up and stretch up, or lie down and stretch out easily. I could add an addition to the end of the unit, in the form of a separate sleeping box, which would make more hopping room in the hutch. I intend to bring him inside again for an hour or two in the early evening when he's most active, for a gallop around. I feel like a monster locking him in a hutch, like I've put him in jail! But on the other hand, I feel at least he's not lonely all the time. What do you think?????? Thanks! Oh, forgot to say, I have posted pics of the new arrangement on my webshots (the last 2 pics in the album).

One way to give him more space would be to extend downwards. You could incase the lower part with mesh cut a whole in the floor of the hutch and put a ramp down. That would essentially double the space he had. Like this hutch/run: http://www.rehutches.com/images/singlehutchwithrun02.jpg

Tam

Thanks Tamsin. Good idea to extend the hutch, I've sown the seed in hubby's mind, now all I have to do is water it and watch it grow!
I've answered some of my other questions. The piggies do provide good company for a rabbit. I have noticed that they like to eat together and when the pigs come out for a snack, they seem to encourage Tweed to come over to the divider and they share hay through the netting and look very relaxed and happy together.