I quite fancy a rabbit-but only if it can be housetrained.

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Anyone got a bunny in residence?

I just don't like the idea of the poor creature living in a cold, dark hutch in winter. Also I would like to get a cat too so can the two coexist peacefully?

My bunny used to be in the garden in the day (free range with a kennel to shelter in) and in the house at night. We managed to train her to pee in a litter tray, but she would sometimes poo on the floor - although rabbit poo is pretty dry and doesn't smell.

Watch out for cables as they like to chew through them. And they can climb up given half the chance, mine would jump on the sofa then up on the window sill and watch the world go by . She used to pinch biscuits out of my hand too and would sit under my mums chair at breakfast and 'beg' for fruit.

Not sure about the cat though. The local cats never hardly came into our garden when we had a rabbit. I think she scared them off, rabbits can be pretty brutal when they want to be. I think a cat might come off worse in a fight with a large rabbit.

House rabbits are fab IMO. Total handful, but still fab .

My rabbit was easily housetrained, too. Always went back to his cage to wee, although a few dry poos on the carpet occasionally. He had to be shut up when we were eating because he would just climb on the plate. . No amount of shouting 'no' and pushing him made any difference.
Never tried mixing him with cats; not at all sure since out cats used to bring in dead rabbits. Maybe a large rabbit.
And, yes, you have to rabbit-proof your house/room and in the UK cables are at skirting board height - so silly for many reasons.

I have had house rabbits for years, just got a new one, 9 weeks old after our ten yr old rabbit died last year.

He has an indoor cage for when we are not around and we have a corner shaped littler tray with rabbit litter in in the corner of the cage. You need to put their food/hay rack right next to the littler tray as rabbits poo while they eat.

Sofar so good and he's not wee'd anywhere but his litter tray. Saves on having to clean the sawdust out more than once a week if they only go in a tray.

As he gets older he will spend more time out of he cage and we can just put a littler tray here amd there like we did with ourast rabbit. They are very easy to train. If they do go anywhere in the cage bu the tray, you just put the poo/wet sawdust inthe tray and they soon get the idea - they are very bright little creatures!

An indoor cage is a must for me though, they can chew throuh wires/woodwork/furniture unbelievably fast when unsupervised.

Oh, and I have cats too.

We had our last rabbit first and when we gotnthe kittens he soon whipped them into shape! They got a good box on the nose a few times, but the rabbit was very old and grumpy at that point! One of the cats used to like to go in the cage ans curl up with the rabbit and sleep when he was tiny.

I've had cats and rabbits together my whole life, they have always got on well.

The cats have been great with the new rabbit, they just watch him and sniff him quite a bit. Our dogs are fine too. I'd never leave them unsupervised together of course!

we've just got 2 rabbits for Easter, they are the babies of house rabbits and 99% of the time poo in their cage. They're 7 weeks old. One has just mastered jumping up on the sofa! They're very cute and very entertaining!

We have a inside cage for them and a large outside cage. Once the Easter hols are over they're going to go outside during the day and will then come in the evenings to play and sleep.