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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When we got our first Netherland dwarf rabbits, Mars and Jupiter, we didn’t know anything about house rabbits. The Internet wasn’t was it it is today, and none of the dwarf bunny or rabbit books we bought gave any information about keeping rabbits in the house. So in preparation for their arrival we bought the biggest hutch we could find. It was about 5 feet long and a standard rectangular wooden box with an enclosed compartment down one end. It was the biggest hutch we could find and we thought it would be lovely for our new bunnies when they arrived.
Building Our Own Bunny Run
Our Rabbit Hutch and Home Made Run
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