Show me your bunny set ups!

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We're looking at getting a pair of rabbits next year sometime, hoping to adopt. I know their housing has to be, well, huge. So we're researching the various options to have in the garden (they'll be outdoor rabbits). Would love to be able to let them be free range in the garden but there is a nasty looking tom cat that we think lives in the house behind ours so whatever we do needs to be very stronh and cat proof!

Love to see what you've all got :)

I don't recommend free range unsupervised - there's cats, foxes, rogue dogs (I found a Dachshund in my garden a few months ago, he'd come through 5 gardens to get to mine, would definitely have eaten rabbits should he have found them), rogue people, even birds of prey to worry about.

Mine are now free range house rabbits, they have the whole spare bedroom and the door is open - but they think the hallway is hot lava so don't venture out. They have a wood hide box, a few cardboard boxes, two litter trays and fleece blankets and vet bed everywhere. I get through a lot of puppy pads as my girl is 12 years old and doesn't often make it to the litter tray.

They do have an outside play space though - it's a 10ft x 5ft roofed aviary on paving slabs (100% dig proof!), was not cheap and sadly the guys that built it have shut up shop now :( I also have a 6ft x 4ft custom made bunny shed (by those same guys), currently just storage for now. We have foxes and cats in the garden, that combined with age is why they're house rabbits. There would be a covered tunnel connecting the two if they were outside, but for now they just use the aviary when it's not baking outside!

Not so helpful to you, as ours is a house rabbit, but here it is anyway.

Leporidae How are you keeping them from chewing? Or are they not big chewers?

Do you use baby gates to keep them out of the kitchen and bathroom, or just closed doors and chase them out if necessary?

We have a 6 by 2 hutch, with free access to 2 runs attached with a pipe, the second run was on the grass initially but not often these days as they’re diggers. They get to run free in the garden once or twice a week where they like to eat my flowers

It’s a playhouse with a cat flap to a run, 2 storey hutch inside but never shut, free range in the garden when I’m home

Inside the house (he was a baby in this pic)

pennycarbonara We close the door & chase him out when necessary. The kitchen in particular is an endless source of fascination. We have tried a gate – he hopped over it.

As for chewing, although the whole house is potentially up for grabs, in practice he favours a few corners, books, and drapes. We get by with strategically placed tiles, fireplace screens, and narrow sheets of glass. Protecting cords is of course top priority.

PS. We just have the one, but he gets around.

It's amazing the spaces they get into. They look quite big but they manage to get in all over the place.
like the David Graeber book as well as the bun!

I think he'd like a good chomp on Debt.