Tony Max Nance
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My wife and I are the bunny parents of TWO bunnies! 2yo brother and sister half Rex/half wild (Daddy), bunnies, Herschel and Sasha. Little brown bunnies, beautifully patterned. They're "free-range": litter-box trained, and have free run of the 1st floor, (living room and dining room). They have 2 long square cardboard "sleeping tunnels" against the walls of the dining room, and get closed in there at night with a hand-made 3ft. tall gate. In the living room they have one rayon bunny tube on the floor to play in and one on top of another long cardboard box. Needless to say they chew on ALL their cardboard!! My wife is a stay-at-home online student going for her Masters in botany, so all day they're free to run. They CAN climb the stairs, but they are NOT allowed upstairs, (Daddy's music room with guitars and LOTS of wires and Mommy's sewing room are up there!!!). They have NEVER showed a tendency to chew wires, so they're "safe" in the living room.
Their diet: Dumor or other brands of rabbit pellets, (we buy a different brand every 2 mon. to rotate the taste and the vitamin content), fresh kale leaves, fresh collard or turnip green leaves, a chunk each of dried pineapple with their kale or leafys in the evening for digestion; treats of fat-free Wheat Thin crackers, (NO spices or anything; just the plain low-fat crackers!), half a handful of Craisins every 3rd day, occasional fruit like blueberries or strawberries, alternating Timothy or alfalfa hay in their litter box, in a trough under the coffee table in the living room, and in the dining room corner by their sleeping tube. They also get alfalfa or Timothy chewing chunks, which are great for dripping occasional vitamins onto. My wife grows bean sprouts and clover in old litter pans and these are added to their diet as well. They ALSO have a litter pan of clover outside near the back door.
Our patio is 12' x 30' fenced in with a concrete "floor" so they ARE allowed outside to run, play and hide, sometimes for 45 mins at a time. I reinforced the bottom 10" of the fence with perforated board all around, but one of us is always outside WITH them, just in case. My wife has 2 small tube-framed plastic greenhouses outside along with numerous shelves and large hard plastic stands, all perfect for bunnies to hide under, and, being a botanist, she makes sure that ALL the plants on them and growing in her 5 gal bucket planters are "bunny-safe".
We live in a bunny-world!!!!
Their diet: Dumor or other brands of rabbit pellets, (we buy a different brand every 2 mon. to rotate the taste and the vitamin content), fresh kale leaves, fresh collard or turnip green leaves, a chunk each of dried pineapple with their kale or leafys in the evening for digestion; treats of fat-free Wheat Thin crackers, (NO spices or anything; just the plain low-fat crackers!), half a handful of Craisins every 3rd day, occasional fruit like blueberries or strawberries, alternating Timothy or alfalfa hay in their litter box, in a trough under the coffee table in the living room, and in the dining room corner by their sleeping tube. They also get alfalfa or Timothy chewing chunks, which are great for dripping occasional vitamins onto. My wife grows bean sprouts and clover in old litter pans and these are added to their diet as well. They ALSO have a litter pan of clover outside near the back door.
Our patio is 12' x 30' fenced in with a concrete "floor" so they ARE allowed outside to run, play and hide, sometimes for 45 mins at a time. I reinforced the bottom 10" of the fence with perforated board all around, but one of us is always outside WITH them, just in case. My wife has 2 small tube-framed plastic greenhouses outside along with numerous shelves and large hard plastic stands, all perfect for bunnies to hide under, and, being a botanist, she makes sure that ALL the plants on them and growing in her 5 gal bucket planters are "bunny-safe".
We live in a bunny-world!!!!