Have You Considered Buying A Rabbit Hutch And A Rabbit For The Children?
If you're looking for a great pet for children consider a rabbit. They are nice and small and a child can comfortably sit them on their lap, they are cheap to buy, they are cheap to feed, they don't bark at the neighbours and they won't live as long as a dog or a cat so you're not committing to looking after the rabbit once the children have left the house.
Not only that but they can be an indoors pet as well as an outdoors pet.
A rabbit is kept in a cage that is properly referred to as a rabbit hutch. A rabbit hutch has two main areas, an enclosed sleeping area where he can sleep warm and out of the weather and an outdoors run where he can do what rabbits do, namely run around.
As a general rule the rabbit hutches available in pet shops are too small for one rabbit, let alone more than one. They are very active creatures and need plenty of exercise and unless you're rabbit hutch is quite large most are unable to exercise adequately in them.
If you wish to keep his hutch outdoors you can exercise him using a dedicated rabbit run, which is an area of the garden fenced off to protect your rabbit from predators and which is accessible from the rabbit hutch.
But you can also keep a rabbit indoors. For example you can keep rabbit cages in the laundry where he will be warm and dry and happy.
And whether you decide to keep his rabbit hutch indoors or outdoors it still needs cleaning.
But be aware that you should avoid putting wire on the floor of his rabbit hutch as rabbits do not like walking on wire.
Just the same as for outdoors rabbits, indoors rabbits need plenty of exercise and time out of his hutch each day.
This of course is part of the fun for the rabbit owner. If you have a room specifically dedicated to rabbit play, where you have provided your rabbit with a safe environment and plenty of toys to play with, this is ideal for exercising him each day.
And rabbits can also be house trained as well.
But there is some work to do before allowing your rabbit to play indoors. Rabbits love to disappear into small holes, and can be hard or impossible to get out, just so you need to do a thorough inspection of the room to see that there are no dangerous holes where you can lose your rabbit.
Then populate it with fun things such as plastic pipes to play in and you and your rabbit can play, and exercise, to your, and his, heart's content.
