Rabbits As Pets Indoors

Rabbits are good pets for apartments as they won t wake you up during the night.

Rabbits as pets indoors. 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. Happy and contented rabbits make soft clucking and purring noises. House rabbits and indoor cats can get along fine as do rabbits and well mannered dogs. And long time rabbit owners claim that domestic rabbits are in their own way every bit as smart as cats and dogs.

Rabbits should have regular access to a secure outside area. 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. Put a thin layer of rabbit safe recycled newspaper pellet litter at the bottom of the litter box. 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.

Rabbits make wonderful indoor pets. 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. Outdoors is suitable only for wild rabbits. If you have a pet rabbit you need to keep it indoors.

Their few vocalizations are quiet. Adding a second rabbit is easiest if the rabbits are neutered adults of opposite sexes and they are introduced. Owning a pet rabbit comes with added financial responsibility. Rabbits will usually be destructive if deprived of attention and appropriate toys.

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. If you keep them indoors make sure the temperature does not exceed 90 degrees fahrenheit. Also avoid keeping them in humid conditions. Rabbits are much quieter animals.

You can put a secure run in your garden for your rabbits to roam around and graze in safely. Flemish giants can live indoors or outdoors. 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 have strikingly distinctive personalities.

Rabbits have a natural inclination to poop and pee in one area. Some people keep rabbits in their laundry room but this is a bad idea because this is a very humid part of the house. Caring for a rabbit outdoors is tough and demanding. They are adorable and brimming with personality.

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