Environments
Bunny Environments
Bunny environments are many and varied. No longer do, nor should bunnies live in 2x3 cages where they literally can die of boredom. Bunnies were meant to run and jump and play and explore, and confining them to a cage all of their lives is the cruelest thing one can do. On top of which, when we confine them like that, we lose out on seeing the most delightful antics of a wonderful little animal that God created for amazing visual enjoyment!
If you want to have great enjoyment from your bunnies, give them the largest living space that is possible for you. Do the best you can for them! Sometimes free run of the whole house is not possible, and that's ok. But you can do better than a cage, and it doesn't have to cost you a fortune! A bunny environment can consist of any of the following:
A large cage for a safe haven, surrounded by a pen can be great
Just a pen by itself can be great
Nic cages can be wonderful
A hutch brought indoors with a pen around it is wonderful
And special bunny habitats are amazing. Take a look below at the AMAZING environments from around the world, made just for bunnies!
I have been researching this for several years now, and trying out different things with my own bunnies, and have come to the conclusion that there are "many ways to please your bunny"!
Several of my buns have double pens in spaces in my home where they never get in the way, yet they are part of my life all the time. They are set up in a way that I can easily open the pen and let them run around with me for a few hours and then feed them and safely enclose them again, while I let another set of bunnies out to play with me.
One of my bunnies, Dottie, has the entire space of family room from one wall to the other in front of my fireplace, about 3 feet in width from the back wall. A low pen runs the whole length of the room and she can run wild back and forth, she is with us when we are in the family room which is a lot, and when I am watching a movie, I open the pen and she has the whole family room, and will often come sit with me.
Another bunny, Cloudy, has the whole side of my bedroom. A pen divides the room and since I sleep on the wall side, the pen is something my husband never has to be bothered with. He hardly even knows its there.
One of my couples, Leo and Kribble, live in a Leithpetwerks double condo in the kitchen. It has a pen around it so they can go in and out but are still contained. In the mornings, I open the pen and all day they run around the kitchen picking up all the food I drop like little scavengers. I have to make sure I only drop healthy bunny foods! :)
My other couple, Bear and Mini live in a double condo within a pen that takes up half the dining room behind my dining table. If I ever have a dinner party, the pen gets folded up and they stay in the double condo for a few hours, while we eat and the guests oooh and ahhhh over how cute they are.
And then there is Delly, who dislikes other bunnies and people, though he tolerates me slightly, and he lives at the top of the stair-landing with a 10 foot plexi-glass window overlooking my living and dining room. He holds court over the whole house and all of us from there. I never have to move him , but I do take him out for exercise in the garden when I go out there myself for some sun!
If you want to have great enjoyment from your bunnies, give them the largest living space that is possible for you. Do the best you can for them! Sometimes free run of the whole house is not possible, and that's ok. But you can do better than a cage, and it doesn't have to cost you a fortune! A bunny environment can consist of any of the following:
A large cage for a safe haven, surrounded by a pen can be great
Just a pen by itself can be great
Nic cages can be wonderful
A hutch brought indoors with a pen around it is wonderful
And special bunny habitats are amazing. Take a look below at the AMAZING environments from around the world, made just for bunnies!
I have been researching this for several years now, and trying out different things with my own bunnies, and have come to the conclusion that there are "many ways to please your bunny"!
Several of my buns have double pens in spaces in my home where they never get in the way, yet they are part of my life all the time. They are set up in a way that I can easily open the pen and let them run around with me for a few hours and then feed them and safely enclose them again, while I let another set of bunnies out to play with me.
One of my bunnies, Dottie, has the entire space of family room from one wall to the other in front of my fireplace, about 3 feet in width from the back wall. A low pen runs the whole length of the room and she can run wild back and forth, she is with us when we are in the family room which is a lot, and when I am watching a movie, I open the pen and she has the whole family room, and will often come sit with me.
Another bunny, Cloudy, has the whole side of my bedroom. A pen divides the room and since I sleep on the wall side, the pen is something my husband never has to be bothered with. He hardly even knows its there.
One of my couples, Leo and Kribble, live in a Leithpetwerks double condo in the kitchen. It has a pen around it so they can go in and out but are still contained. In the mornings, I open the pen and all day they run around the kitchen picking up all the food I drop like little scavengers. I have to make sure I only drop healthy bunny foods! :)
My other couple, Bear and Mini live in a double condo within a pen that takes up half the dining room behind my dining table. If I ever have a dinner party, the pen gets folded up and they stay in the double condo for a few hours, while we eat and the guests oooh and ahhhh over how cute they are.
And then there is Delly, who dislikes other bunnies and people, though he tolerates me slightly, and he lives at the top of the stair-landing with a 10 foot plexi-glass window overlooking my living and dining room. He holds court over the whole house and all of us from there. I never have to move him , but I do take him out for exercise in the garden when I go out there myself for some sun!
