Indoor rabbits- advice please!

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I want a rabbit! But I have 2 concerns

1. I have a cat. Will she kill the rabbit?

2. Foxes in garden so will have to be indoor bunny.
   Do any of you have an indoor rabbit and if so how do you do it? is it in a hutch? I heard they can be litter trained, how do you do this? Also do they chew absolutely everything?

1. Don't know. Wouldn't have thought so - rabbits are pretty tough and sparky and fight like spitfires when cornered. But I know nothing about cats. Nothing at all. So don't know.

2. I had a few indoor rabbits. They had a hutch but it was always standing open - more a place to retreat than to shut them away in. Rabbits need a lot of exercise and shouldn't be shut in a hutch for any long period - can be shut in a run if necessary. They need hight to jump and space to dart about. They are amazingly eazy to house train and willingly use a litter tray. Un-neutered males will spray though and it STINKS and is pretty corrosive stuff. The poos are fine and you'll probably always get a few of these about the place but they're dry and don't smell. The wee smells pretty bad. They are very sociable and will love sitting with you watching tv in the evenings. They moult like buggery - hope you have a good hoover. Yes, they are very destructive - they'll chew through wires in a heartbeat, shred papers, eat book spines, pull up carpet, slice the rubber buttons from your remote control and one of my buns once stripped all the bathroom wallpaper off to a height of 4 feet. The more bored your rabbit, the more destructive.

Well, that was my experience anyway. I loved my rabbits to bits. Not sure I'd have house rabbits again tho unless I had a part of the house I could keep them in that wasn't easily destroyed. It is easy to see why so many poor buns end up shut for hours and hours in their hutches

Also, all rabbits are different. They have great personalities. I had big grumpy boys. Perhaps smaller females would be entirely different.

We've got 2 dwarf rabbits in an indoor cage -a big one, with plastic bottom part and wire top part, IYSWIM, like a giant hamster cage.

We haven't had them long but we were told that they will start to use just one or two corners of their cage litter, but if you want to litter train them you can put a small litter tray in the cage, with a different kind of litter to that which you have covered the base of the cage with so they can tell the difference. Then you can take the litter tray out of the cage when you want to let them roam about.

Don't know about the cat, sorry, but they will either love or hate each other!

The basic predator/prey relationship will always be a possibility although some rabbits boss cats around, and no healthy rabbit will go towards danger. Make sure he/she has a safe enclosure when you are out and supervise if the rabbit is hopping freely about. Of my three cats one is friends with the rabbit and the other two are clearly just waiting for an opportunity to eat her. The dog is even more of a challenge!

Dh will kill me and rabbit if it destroys the house!!! (only verbally though!) Perhaps a female bunny would be calmer than a male?
They're SO CUTE aren't they?!