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Advice on keeping rabbits
Please advice on keeping rabbits at home.
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Another thing you may not have considered is that they need to come out of their cage for exercise and the house needs to be completely rabbit proofed. I
You have to make sure they haven't any access to electrical wires and cords from electronics or anything plugged into a socket including TV's, fridges, freezers, toasters whatever you have plugged in in your home will attract them. You have to take a lot of care that power cords HDMI cables, power bars, extension cords etc etc cannot be accessed. It's also a fire hazard for humans too should they chomp on on wires that are plugged in.
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If you rent somewhere, this might be hard and likely would be a no like cats and dogs not allowed some places. If you have your own place, we just set up a rabbit cage big enough for the two dwarf rabbits we got, one for each daughter. I have heard rabbits can be litter box trained but we never tried. They will need a water bottle for cage and hopefully the cage will have a catch tray for the poop and urine to drop down to. We set it atop an old metal kitchen cart so it was off the ground. This was around twenty years ago so I won
't remember all the details. Rabbits will eat food scraps like fruit and veggie peels, and things like the drier part of stems of veggies and lettuce that most people would compost. And of course you must buy rabbit food. They will need some hay and you can get small packages of Timothy Hay a sweet type of hay at pet stores and pet sections of many department stores, but not all. While they may eat the hay, it also makes a good mat other than wire bottom of cage to move about but if its colder, we added more hay and they would heap it around themselves to keep warm. The girls brought the rabbits in the house to play with. I remember on several occasions each rabbit sitting on the back of the couch next to its owner who wsa watching TV and the rabbits just sat there and seemed to be watching too. Best thing to do is browse through books on rabbits for pets. We lucked out with no problems like never biting us or peeing and pooping inside. Those things never happened. But I can't say every pet will be the best behaved without any special training. One daughter is like the 'animal whisperer', and she gets a close connection with them. She trained her rabbit to walk on a cat harness and leash. We had small hawks in our neighborhood that hid in the rhody hedge sometimes. So she taught the bunny to flatten itself against the ground when she said "Stop". And when she wanted the bunny to move again she tapped the end of it and said 'Go' and it would go. Sometimes, in summer with a lawn that never got chemical treatments for the grass or weeds, we put the cage with bottom removed out on lawn with the rabbits inside and they could eat all the grass and dandelions they wanted. I am sure theres more you can learn on rabbits but this bit here is just all the ex periences I have had.
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