Dwarf Bunnies

Flower and Thumper

Our first dwarf bunnies, Mars and Jupiter, had given us a taste for house rabbits when we had moved home and our new garden wasn’t ready for them to move into. They had spent several months living in the house, while the garden was made safe for them. Although Mars and Jupiter were very happy to move back outside, we missed having rabbits in the house and so Flower and Thumper joined our family.

Thumper was an agouti netherland dwarf bunny, the only one in the litter, and when we saw him we couldn’t resist. The rest of the litter were Sable Martens and Flower was the only other boy. As we wanted a pair of male bunnies our choice was made for us.

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Our Indoor Bunny Run

Our indoor bunny run was originally built as a temporary home for our dwarf bunnies Mars & Jupiter. We had moved into a new home and the back garden had no fencing around it, and even if it had been secure there was no grass for them to live on. So Derek made a temporary indoor home for Mars and Jupiter, which later became home to our house bunnies Flower and Thumper.

The run sides were simply made up of MFD sheets held together with strips of wood. It measured about 6 x 5 feet and was roughly 3 feet high. The sides sat on some loft boards, which were covered in linoleum, for hygiene. Because this indoor rabbit run had originally been built for temporary use it did need some alterations to make it suitable for a long-term home for our house rabbits:

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