Before getting a decorative rabbit, it is worth thinking of where he will live. Absolutely inadmissibly to think that it is enough to animal to receive food and water only in time. It is very important that the pet had the comfortable dwelling equipped taking into account his requirements.
If housing for a rabbit — a cage
The most widespread housing for a rabbit is a cage. First of all it is necessary to pay attention to its size. If the adult pet weighs about 2 kg, optimum dimensions for a cage of 100×65×50 cm or close to these. Cages of 70×55×40 cm in size will be suitable for rabbits dwarfish. The rabbit has to have a space for the movement. To it it should not be close when he lays down having extended.
The cage has to be wooden or metal, with unpainted twigs. An exit from it is preferable in the form of the wooden bridge. The floor of a cage cannot be smooth or trellised. It is unhealthy an animal. It is the best of all to divide housing of the pet into a zone for a dream and for walks.
Inside the cage has to contain: - a day nursery big for hay; - a drinking bowl it is better automatic, but it is possible also a bowl; - the feeding trough for grain has to be ceramic, with a thick bottom; - a lodge shelter from an unpainted tree; - the tray of 15 cm in depth attached to a lattice. As addition it is possible to suspend a sennik-toy. Rabbits are clean animals therefore the cage has to be removed. The laying in a cage needs to be changed every other day, and in a lodge — once a week. Every month it is necessary to carry out disinfection of a cage by hot water and solution of manganese. The dwelling of a decorative rabbit far from the conditioner and the heater has to be located. It is impossible to put a cage on a draft and a blaze of the sun. Some breeds of rabbits it is possible to lodge in the summer on the balcony or on the street. At the same time the cage has to be the deaf from three parties, and with the fourth has to have a door from the metal gauze.
Alternative to a cage
Recently there is an opinion that a cage — not the most suitable housing for a rabbit. He an animal active, in a cage can ache or grow fat. Alternative options for a cage call today open-air cages and even an opportunity to support a rabbit in free movement. The open-air cage can be arranged in a convenient part of the room. In it various tunnels in which the animal will be able to hide, play, dig will be located. There will be enough place and for lodges from cardboard where the rabbit will have an opportunity to arrange minks. Just as in a cage, a floor should not be very firm or slippery. On a certain site it is possible to put a soft covering. Sennik, a bowl for water or a drinking bowl, a tray, a feeding trough — all this necessary attributes of the open-air cage. Besides, also various toys for the favourite will be located here. At free contents the rabbit has an opportunity to move actively. It is important for health: muscles of an animal develop, excess fat does not accumulate, the pet communicates with owners more often. But at such choice of keeping of rodents it is necessary to think of safety of the apartment and a small animal. It is necessary to hide wires, to move poisonous plants to the inaccessible place, to isolate a rabbit from other animals. And on training of a pet of time and forces will leave much more, he has to understand and adopt rules of the owner. And pleasant coexistence will be an award to both parties.