Rabbits As Pets Indoors

More and more rabbits are being kept as house pets and why not cats and dogs live indoors too.

Rabbits as pets indoors. You need to provide safe and cozy indoor housing to your pet rabbit. Happy and contented rabbits make soft clucking and purring noises. Their few vocalizations are quiet. Rabbits are good pets for apartments as they won t wake you up during the night.

If you keep them indoors make sure the temperature does not exceed 90 degrees fahrenheit. Outdoors is suitable only for wild rabbits. Put a thin layer of rabbit safe recycled newspaper pellet litter at the bottom of the litter box. Rabbits have strikingly distinctive personalities.

They can be as playful and silly as puppies or kittens as independent and fascinating as cats or as loyal and openly affectionate as dogs. Rabbits should have regular access to a secure outside area. Rabbits have a natural inclination to poop and pee in one area. Adding a second rabbit is easiest if the rabbits are neutered adults of opposite sexes and they are introduced.

Take advantage of this by setting up a medium sized cat litter box or shallow storage bin near their food water bowls and hay feeder. They also need to be spayed or neutered to cut down on behavioral problems and health risks. Dogs should be trained to respond to commands before being trusted with a free running rabbit and supervision is needed to control a dog s playful impulses this is especially true for puppies. Caring for a rabbit outdoors is tough and demanding.

House rabbits and indoor cats can get along fine as do rabbits and well mannered dogs. Owning a pet rabbit comes with added financial responsibility. This includes indoor rabbits who will benefit from time out in the sunshine and fresh air. Rabbits will usually be destructive if deprived of attention and appropriate toys.

Rabbits are much quieter animals. If you have a pet rabbit you need to keep it indoors. Rabbits make wonderful indoor pets. Flemish giants can live indoors or outdoors.

And long time rabbit owners claim that domestic rabbits are in their own way every bit as smart as cats and dogs. But before you swoop into the shelter and pick out a cutie there are a few things you should know to ensure a rabbit is right for you and your family. Also avoid keeping them in humid conditions. Having your pet rabbits in the house makes it easier to interact with them and makes them more sociable as well as easier for you to keep an eye on them for any changes in their health or behaviour.

Rabbits are not ideal pets for children partly because rabbits usually do not like to be picked up though they do like being stroked and are quite social.