Robyn13
New Member
I recently got my first rabbit about two months ago. He was very young when I first got him, and now he is about three months old. Im having problems with his time outside of his cage. I have a large pen for him with a blanket where he does all of his running around. Lately however, he has figured out that he has grown enough to jump out of his pen. (Its suppose to be a dog pen its 23" high). I put a little net on top of his pen but now he seems unsatisfied being in his pen, he is just constantly trying to get out of it and I am scared he is going to hurt himself.
He is litter trained in his cage, but as soon as he is out of his cage (his pen) he completely ignores his litter box and does his business on the blanket. So I cant let him hop around my room in fear that he will do his business on my carpet (landlord will not be pleased). I dont know what to do. I want him to be happy, but I feel like his pen has just become a bigger cage to him. He has more then enough room to run around in it, he is just focused on trying to get out.
Also as a seperate issue, how fast do rabbits breathe? I handled a lot of buns before and maybe I never noticed, or maybe Im paranoid because he is my own. A lot of the time he is breathing so rapidly it looks like he is shivering, like we do when we are cold. He isnt breathing hard, just rapid. When I first got him he was sneezing a lot so I took him to the vet and he had a respiratory infection (the vet I took him to is very good, an exotic vet clinic only, so they deal with rabbits more then anything else). He was put on two seperate antibiotics for two weeks, then when back for a follow up and got a clean bill of health. That was about a month and a half ago, and I just want to know if this rapid breathing is something I should be concerned about, or is normal for rabbits.
ANY help/insight/ or advice would be very much appreciated!!! I want Pippin to be as happy and healthy as possible and Im worried about being a bad rabbit owner.
He is litter trained in his cage, but as soon as he is out of his cage (his pen) he completely ignores his litter box and does his business on the blanket. So I cant let him hop around my room in fear that he will do his business on my carpet (landlord will not be pleased). I dont know what to do. I want him to be happy, but I feel like his pen has just become a bigger cage to him. He has more then enough room to run around in it, he is just focused on trying to get out.
Also as a seperate issue, how fast do rabbits breathe? I handled a lot of buns before and maybe I never noticed, or maybe Im paranoid because he is my own. A lot of the time he is breathing so rapidly it looks like he is shivering, like we do when we are cold. He isnt breathing hard, just rapid. When I first got him he was sneezing a lot so I took him to the vet and he had a respiratory infection (the vet I took him to is very good, an exotic vet clinic only, so they deal with rabbits more then anything else). He was put on two seperate antibiotics for two weeks, then when back for a follow up and got a clean bill of health. That was about a month and a half ago, and I just want to know if this rapid breathing is something I should be concerned about, or is normal for rabbits.
ANY help/insight/ or advice would be very much appreciated!!! I want Pippin to be as happy and healthy as possible and Im worried about being a bad rabbit owner.