Listed below you can find the basic items necessary for your bunny.
1. Carrier for bunnies ride home. Is very useful for other occasions! 3 options.
2. Enclosure for bunny to live in at your home. Bunny can live inside a cage or outside in a hutch, plus lots supervised running around! 4 options.
3. Litter pan. Bunny can be easily litter trained. There are 2 styles to chose from. You chose the bedding.
4. Eating and watering dish. I prefer my dishes to attach to the side of the cage.
5. Water bottle with gravity ball. Bunny should have both bottle and dish!
6. Timothy Hay! Bunny should have timothy hay at all times!
1. Carrier for bunnies ride home. Is very useful for other occasions! 3 options.
2. Enclosure for bunny to live in at your home. Bunny can live inside a cage or outside in a hutch, plus lots supervised running around! 4 options.
3. Litter pan. Bunny can be easily litter trained. There are 2 styles to chose from. You chose the bedding.
4. Eating and watering dish. I prefer my dishes to attach to the side of the cage.
5. Water bottle with gravity ball. Bunny should have both bottle and dish!
6. Timothy Hay! Bunny should have timothy hay at all times!
Litter Box Training
The task of caring for your rabbit is made easier by training your rabbit to use a litter box.
Many people have pet rabbits. and after a little training, these animals can roam the house just like other pets. Contrary to the popular belief, rabbits aren't dirty. In fact, this reputation often stems from inattentiveness and lack of cleaning on the part of the pet parent. In reality, rabbits are "prey" animals who will instinctively keep a clean home to prevent the build of of odor that would reveal the location of their dens to potential predators.
Rabbits can be raised as social animals that like to interact with human handlers. Whether a rabbit is sociable is not breed-specific. This is largely dependent on the care and handling from the owner. Raised from a kit, rabbits can be accustomed to handling any human interaction and be very companionable pets. What deters many people from rabbits is unfamiliarity with one as a pet and the prospect of many droppings being left around the house.
Unlike other mammals, rabbits and other lagomorph produce two types of droppings. Fecal pellets are the commonly found ones that are round and dry. These can bee seen in piles and can number in the dozens. Rabbits will also produce cecotropes, which are formed in a region of the rabbit’s digestive tract. These cecotropes contain important nutrients and healthy bacteria and fungi, which are essential to the health of a rabbit. Rabbits will eat the cecotropes as they exit the body. Fecal pellets are not usually eaten and are the droppings that will need to be contained.
It has been said that rabbits can often be litter box trained and seldom have accidents outside of the box. Rabbits prefer one or two places to put their waste. To start the process you will need patience.
* Buy a litter box that the rabbit can easily access. Corner litter boxes often work well.
* Confine the rabbit to one room and place the litter box in the cage with the rabbit.
* Observe where the rabbit likes to relieve itself. It it’s in the litter box this is a great first step. If not, simply move the litter box where the rabbit is doing its business.
* Once successful, give the rabbit a little bit of freedom at a time. Try letting the rabbit out of cage in the confined room with the litter box nearby.
* If the bunny continually makes mistakes, it could be a signal that the rabbit would like the litter box moved to a different spot closer to where the accidents are occurring.
* It may take locating a few boxes around a large space before a rabbit grows acclimated to using the litter box. Then you can gradually reduce the number of boxes.
Rabbits can take time to catch on to litter box training, and even when you’re fairly certain the training is complete, you may still find a few pellets left near the box.
Many people have pet rabbits. and after a little training, these animals can roam the house just like other pets. Contrary to the popular belief, rabbits aren't dirty. In fact, this reputation often stems from inattentiveness and lack of cleaning on the part of the pet parent. In reality, rabbits are "prey" animals who will instinctively keep a clean home to prevent the build of of odor that would reveal the location of their dens to potential predators.
Rabbits can be raised as social animals that like to interact with human handlers. Whether a rabbit is sociable is not breed-specific. This is largely dependent on the care and handling from the owner. Raised from a kit, rabbits can be accustomed to handling any human interaction and be very companionable pets. What deters many people from rabbits is unfamiliarity with one as a pet and the prospect of many droppings being left around the house.
Unlike other mammals, rabbits and other lagomorph produce two types of droppings. Fecal pellets are the commonly found ones that are round and dry. These can bee seen in piles and can number in the dozens. Rabbits will also produce cecotropes, which are formed in a region of the rabbit’s digestive tract. These cecotropes contain important nutrients and healthy bacteria and fungi, which are essential to the health of a rabbit. Rabbits will eat the cecotropes as they exit the body. Fecal pellets are not usually eaten and are the droppings that will need to be contained.
It has been said that rabbits can often be litter box trained and seldom have accidents outside of the box. Rabbits prefer one or two places to put their waste. To start the process you will need patience.
* Buy a litter box that the rabbit can easily access. Corner litter boxes often work well.
* Confine the rabbit to one room and place the litter box in the cage with the rabbit.
* Observe where the rabbit likes to relieve itself. It it’s in the litter box this is a great first step. If not, simply move the litter box where the rabbit is doing its business.
* Once successful, give the rabbit a little bit of freedom at a time. Try letting the rabbit out of cage in the confined room with the litter box nearby.
* If the bunny continually makes mistakes, it could be a signal that the rabbit would like the litter box moved to a different spot closer to where the accidents are occurring.
* It may take locating a few boxes around a large space before a rabbit grows acclimated to using the litter box. Then you can gradually reduce the number of boxes.
Rabbits can take time to catch on to litter box training, and even when you’re fairly certain the training is complete, you may still find a few pellets left near the box.