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Anonymous
Hey /an/,

So a couple of weeks ago I bought a little white rabbit for a pet. Instead of getting it a tiny-ass cage or a $200.00 hutch, I put it's litter box, food and water in a corner of my apartment, and let it have my whole apartment as it's home. After a day of baby rabbit exploring the apartment (I rabbit proofed everything) it seems to have gotten used to everything, and sleeps on my bed. However, I have this feeling like I'm denying it something. Are rabbit supposed to be cooped up or put in cages? I have no other pets and there is certainly nothing it can get itself into. It doesn't act erratically or nervously, and it comes to me when I call it's name. So am I denying the rabbit something after all?
>> Anonymous
are you denying it something by not putting it in a cage? your logic is strange.
>> Anonymous
>>220445
I mean to ask if rabbits need places like that to call their own, to feel safe, as if nothing can get to them.
>> Anonymous
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>> Anonymous
you could try throwing a cardboard box down. Watch the rabbit first play with it, if it doesn't eat the cardboard then its safe.
My rabbit loves going into a box and biting/scratching a second entrance out of the side. It gives them the feeling of making an actual home i think.
>> Anonymous
They do live down holes in the ground, so it's a reasonable thought that it might like to feel enclosed sometimes. Maybe one of those little cat igloos.
>> Anonymous
make a little place where they can crawl in and such. if they dont use it, throw it out and continue to raise 'em.
>> Anonymous
>>220444
I had my rabbit for 9 years and he had a cage, but he had free reign of the downstairs. When they are younger they like to chew on wood and electrical cords so you will need to pay attention to that. My rabbit went blind, which most older rabbits do, and he still got around the house fine. I don't think you are denying him anything.
>> Anonymous
yeah my rabbits love anything they can hide in, cardboard boxes, underneath the papasan, dresser etc.
>> Anonymous
>>220468

Buy a leash so you can take it outside for walks. No, I actually mean that. Rabbits needs them some fresh air.

Alternatively if you have a garden, you could build a rabbit pen just beware that rabbits are natural burrowers so the fencing might need to extend a fair bit down into the earth as well.
>> Anonymous
make sure you buy it grass pellets that it can eat in addition to it's normal rabbit food if it is a house rabbit and it will be a happy bunny.

Also obvious advice but keep an eye on your carpets and soft furnishings. No matter how rabbit proof a place is, a determined rabbit will always find something to graze on that it shouldn't be grazing on sooner or later and when it does you'll want to nip that in the bud.
>> Anonymous
>litter box
Can you potty train a rabbit? O.o
>> Anonymous
>>220757
yes. and rather quickly too.