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How to keep an indoor rabbit happy Indoor rabbits can lead happy and fulfilled lives, so long as they are properly cared for. This means plenty of stimulation and, where possible, access to outside.
Here are some ways that you can keep your rabbit cool in the summer, recommended by Dr. MacMillan. 1. Keep their hutch/run in the shade: If your rabbit goes outside, find a shady spot in the ...
When it comes to the best bedding for rabbits, things like hay, straw, aspen shavings, paper, and blankets are all great choices.All rabbits need bedding (yes, including those that live indoors ...
Pastured rabbits are more subject to predator attack. Rabbits kept indoors at an appropriate temperature rarely suffer heat loss compared to rabbits housed outdoors in summer. At the same time, if rabbits are housed inside without adequate ventilation, respiratory disease can be a significant cause of illness and death.
Typically, they feed on leaves and bulbs of marsh plants including cattails, brushes, and grasses. [11] They can also feed on other aquatic or marsh plants such as centella, greenbrier vine, marsh pennywort, water hyacinth, wild potato, and amaryllis. [12] Marsh rabbits, like all rabbits, reingest their food, a practice known as coprophagy. [7]
In the UK, fenbendazole (under the brand name Panacur Rabbit) is sold over-the-counter in oral paste form as a nine-day treatment. Fenbendazole is particularly recommended for rabbits kept in colonies and as a preventive before mixing new rabbits with each other, [50] and there have been anecdotal reports of successful treatments with ponazuril ...
Rabbit owners should also consider indoor plants when rabbit-proofing their homes. Dr. MacMillan notes that the list of poisonous indoor plants is very long but the main ones include, aloe vera ...
A majority of females first breed the spring following birth, but 10% to 36% of females breed as juveniles (i.e., summer of the year they were born). [23] Males will mate with more than one female. Female rabbits can have one to seven litters of one to twelve young, called kits, in a year; however, they average three to four litters per year ...