I'm considering persuading my OH to turn our dining room into a rabbit room. We don't use it very much, it's 2 x 3 metres. I have wanted the rabbits indoors for years, we live in Wales and the weather here in winter gets horrendous.
My buns are also used to having free roam a lot of the time in the garden (well, within a large penned area) and they will get less and less of that in the winter as the nights grow shorter. Hamilton is an old boy too and he always seems to get stasis in winter-spring time, I wonder if that is partly due to the sudden temp changes.
Anyway, before I get too carried away with this idea, is there anything I should be aware of? Like are they really noisy at night, even with our bedroom upstairs, would we be kept awake by their antics? We have a cat but he's a little dumpy boy and is scared of all of them so he would probably just watch cautiously from a distance.
Also, would 2 x 3 metres of permanent space be too small for four rabbits? We could let them out to free range the rest of the living room when we're downstairs too, but our sofas are fancy so it couldn't be all of the time.
Also, this might be a stupid one, but have people judged you for giving up human living space for your rabbits? We'd have to get rid of the living room table and I can just imagine the inlaws (who have no pets) thinking we've lost the plot.
Any advice is much appreciated
My buns are also used to having free roam a lot of the time in the garden (well, within a large penned area) and they will get less and less of that in the winter as the nights grow shorter. Hamilton is an old boy too and he always seems to get stasis in winter-spring time, I wonder if that is partly due to the sudden temp changes.
Anyway, before I get too carried away with this idea, is there anything I should be aware of? Like are they really noisy at night, even with our bedroom upstairs, would we be kept awake by their antics? We have a cat but he's a little dumpy boy and is scared of all of them so he would probably just watch cautiously from a distance.
Also, would 2 x 3 metres of permanent space be too small for four rabbits? We could let them out to free range the rest of the living room when we're downstairs too, but our sofas are fancy so it couldn't be all of the time.
Also, this might be a stupid one, but have people judged you for giving up human living space for your rabbits? We'd have to get rid of the living room table and I can just imagine the inlaws (who have no pets) thinking we've lost the plot.
Any advice is much appreciated