Will's Wabbit Warren

[rabbit_whisperer]

nice hat. your furbabies are very cute!

 

[pinksalamander]

Haley wrote:

Do the kittys get along with William??? Theyre all so cute!

-Haley

I tried introducing the kitties to the rabbit. Herbie was too fat andold to care. I brought Trixi into the living room with William to seewhat would happen. She laid down on the floor with her feet tucked inwatching him for ages. He started coming a little closer ot investigateher so i helf my fingers loosely in her collar in case i need to yankher back if she lashed out. He came right up to her face and gave it agood sniff and she just ran back into my legs and hid. She was petrfiedand went and sat in the dining room and watched him from there! Andthen earlier she came out the catflap while i was cutting down thishuge bush. Will was in his hutch so picked her up and took her over toit and went "look! Its a rabbit!" but she wriggled out of my arms andran inside.

I think she thinks he is a very odd looking cat trying to invade her space

 

[Tatum]

Oh, sorry Haley,

It wasn't even late when I wrote that so I can't use that I wasextremely tired. I'm confused too, I can't explainit, obviously a mistake...

tatum

 

[Haley]

haha..thats okay!

Ive confused people on many occasions

 

[pinksalamander]

Hmm, well some more news for everyone. I spoketo my Dad earlier and he said that we can probably make a hutch forWill over a few weekends when i got down to his house! Yippee! He saidthe only problem was getting it back to my house because i usually getthe train into London and then swap stations to get ona SouthWestern service to his house. Sometimes i go down with my Grandparentsin the car but then we usually have a few little suitcases with stuffin and they have a tiny car. I've been looking up prices for a Courierand i found a great one that specialises in huge packages. They have asize limit but it seems quite big, and will collect any package fromthe house and deliver it to my house for only £9 no matter what thesize. I don't mind having to pay a tenner for a lovely hutch thatsperfect for my garden, it seems like a pretty good deal! If not, i willhave to ring up a company i found called the "Happy Hutch Company"whichmakes custom huthces, but they're very expensive. I shall have tosave!

 

[Bunnys_rule63]

That sounds great! I know I love the happy hutchhutches but they seem a bit overpriced! You can gethutchesmuch cheaper on their ebay shop though so it might be worth havinga look there.

 

[pinksalamander]

Hmm, i know you can because i look at them wheni was buying WIll's hutch. The reason i say this though is because iwant a custom made hutch with a special ramp. I'm making Will's big newrun and i came up with the idea of putting the hutch right next to therun, and then having a ramp at the side that links the hutch and therun together. I've found no hutches that have doors on the side andthis would be EXCELLENT. The hutch i've seen from them is about £80,and so if i ask for this one but with a ramp/door on the side itshouldn't be too much more, probably around £100 for a double storeyone. If not i'll have to make one and find someone to bring it down forme. My Dad works for the government and they often deliver lots offurniture to people for offices so maybe a van will be coming my way ican shove it on

 

[bbgrl20]

oops

 

[pinksalamander]

Will is now becoming a house rabbit.. kinda.

While i was away at my Dads for the weekend i told my Mum that sheneeded to feed Will tiwce a day and let him out in the run and aroundthe house and that was it, she did say when i gto him she wantednothing to do with him!

Well i got back Sunday Afternoon and she told me she had had himrunning around the house for 5 hours! She'd even got one of our lovelyhuman food bowls for food for him (even though there is a perfectlygood animal bowl in the cupboard!) and a MUG of water (although heprefred drinking out of the cat bowl). I also discovered she'd givenhim a litter tray and toys all around the house. I think she loves himnow because if i've been out in the day and he's been in the hutch shecomes home and lets him run around the house! The onyl bad thing is hechewed the wire of the answer mahcine, she doesn't know yet :?. I'mhoping now he's done this she might help me sort something out toprotect the wires down the back of our TV..

How do you lot hide lots of wires (we have TV power, DVD, Video etc down there and there are LOADS!

 

[SOOOSKA]

Hi Pinksalamander,

I'm glad to hear your Bunny will be inside. We have 4 Bunniesthey all live inside. Two have their own bedroom, one livesin our family room and the bay is in a cage bet she gets out at leasttwice a day.

We use the plastic coving for shower curtain rods to cover thewires. They are really cheap to buy. We also hidesome wires behind furniture. I will try to take a picture toshow you what I mean (shower curtain rod covers)

Some people buy wire covering from place like Home Depot.

Hopefully this may help you out.

Soooska:apollo:

 

[pinksalamander]

He probably won't actually be permenantly livinginside, just spending the whole day. We're rabbit proofing the livingroom so we can lock him in there when we go out. He will still sleep inthe hutch outside though. We jsut don't have the room for a comfortableinside bunny I'm working on convincing my Mum to help with SOMETHINGthough

 

[Bunnys_rule63]

It's fine bringing him inside then putting himback outside this time of year but once it starts getting colder Iwouldn't do it. He wont grow a thick enough coat for the winter if hespends time indoors so will be too cold on a night when he isoutsideplus the temperature change isn't good for them. Ionly bring my rabbits in occasionally in the winter and only when theheating is off so there isn't a big temperature change.

 

[pinksalamander]

Hmm, yes that is true. I'm still building him anice big run (its taking ages) so he will be spending more time out ofhis hutch but not being inside. Will it be OK to have him out in therun in the day while i'm at school (his hutch will be connected) andthen have him indoors when its getting dark in the evening when he willbe put back in his hutch?

 

[Bunnys_rule63]

If his hutch is connected to the run that willbe fine, just make sure the run is on concrete so he can't dig out andnothing can dig in. I'm sure he'll appreciate having the extra room tohop about in, plus if the weather turns bad he can choose to go backinto the hutch. I wouldn't bring him in the houseevery nightthough, I know how hard it is in the winter to spend time with yourbuns because of the short days as my two also live outside but thetemperature change isn't good for bunnies,it actually effectsthem more than the actual cold. Bringing him occasionally if the houseis quite cool will be ok but I wouldn't bring him in every night.:?

 

[Haley]

Aww thats so sweet that your mom is warming up to Will!

A good wire protector is this stuff sold in auto repair stores, its athick ribbed plastic tubing used to cover exposed wires incars/trailers etc. It works great. Also, rabbitstop.com sellssomething just like it (although a bit more pricey!).

Do you have room in your bedroom to build an NIC pen? They are so cheap(mine was like 30 bucks all together) and they're nice androomy! You could still build the run for when you take himoutside! It makes it so much easier than going outside 5-10 times inthe winter to make sure his water isnt frozen!

Keep us posted!

 

[pinksalamander]

Good job our house isn't central heated and istherefore FREEEEEZING everywhere apart from the living room and diningroom where we have fires. My room is the bets probably because itsfairly normal temperature, a little warmer than outside.

 

[missyscove]

Considering it's 7 at night and still about 100F here, I'd take freezing. I will definately never have toworry about water freezing, I can say that much.

 

[pinksalamander]

http://www.rabbitsonline.net/view_topic.php?id=15890&forum_id=1

Check out Will's new hutch!

Building it tonight *hopefully*

 

[pinksalamander]

Today once i got home from school i startedworking on his run some more. Even more improvments. Its taking a longtime but once its finished it WILL be great! I jsut hope he doesn'tfind his way out! (My building skills are not great!)

Plus, today i was watching him in his new hutch (which he absolutleyadores) i agve him a phone book and fro the last 3 days he hasn't givenit a second sniff. However today he was being a little playful (diggingaround in his hay/woodshavings) and then he started ripping it andscrabbling at it. He was never particularly playful unless he was inthe house so this really makes me happy

 

[pinksalamander]

Haley wrote:

Doyou have room in your bedroom to build an NIC pen? They are so cheap(mine was like 30 bucks all together) and they're nice androomy!

No i havn't, my room is tinier than the BATHROOM i barely have enough room for furniture let alone a rabbit cage

Also i don't think we can get NIC cubes in the UK?