Nymphadora
Young Bun
Hi everyone,
I was just looking for a bit of advice please, after losing our beautiful old bun Matilda last summer we were finally ready to welcome another bun into our home and Nymphadora joined the family last week. She's a beautiful agouti dwarf lop girl and is about 9 weeks old at the moment (though our vet thought her size could mean that she's a little older) She's settling in really well, she's friendly and likes a cuddle but she's also got a lovely fiesty side to her and she hasn't been at all phased by our 2 cats (who have both grown up with a rabbit and are brilliant with them)
Anyway my questions really are about outdoor housing, ideally we'd like to move her outside as soon as it's not so cold over night, but it's been a long time since I had an outdoor bun... I'm going to order the chartwell 6ft double decker so that she has lots of room for a boyfriend at some point in the summer after she has been neutered, our old girl lived inside for the second half of her life but we let her free range in our secure garden for as many day light hours as we could fit around work, and in the winter she'd have free range time inside instead so that she still had lots of exercise even on weekdays when we're only home in the dark. We'll be planning the same free ranging for Nymphadora do you think it's ok to not add a run to the 6ft double hutch if she'll be out of it for 4-5 hours a day in the week and much longer at the weekend. The best spot for us to put the hutch (it's limited by having a very sunny garden) doesn't really have room for a run.
I'd be grateful if people could let me know what they think please
I was just looking for a bit of advice please, after losing our beautiful old bun Matilda last summer we were finally ready to welcome another bun into our home and Nymphadora joined the family last week. She's a beautiful agouti dwarf lop girl and is about 9 weeks old at the moment (though our vet thought her size could mean that she's a little older) She's settling in really well, she's friendly and likes a cuddle but she's also got a lovely fiesty side to her and she hasn't been at all phased by our 2 cats (who have both grown up with a rabbit and are brilliant with them)
Anyway my questions really are about outdoor housing, ideally we'd like to move her outside as soon as it's not so cold over night, but it's been a long time since I had an outdoor bun... I'm going to order the chartwell 6ft double decker so that she has lots of room for a boyfriend at some point in the summer after she has been neutered, our old girl lived inside for the second half of her life but we let her free range in our secure garden for as many day light hours as we could fit around work, and in the winter she'd have free range time inside instead so that she still had lots of exercise even on weekdays when we're only home in the dark. We'll be planning the same free ranging for Nymphadora do you think it's ok to not add a run to the 6ft double hutch if she'll be out of it for 4-5 hours a day in the week and much longer at the weekend. The best spot for us to put the hutch (it's limited by having a very sunny garden) doesn't really have room for a run.
I'd be grateful if people could let me know what they think please