People often take on rabbits as pets without realising how quite unlike mice or other easily cage-able rodents they are. While smaller animals, such as hamsters and gerbils, have plenty of room to move about in a standard sized cage, rabbits can fast outgrow average sized rabbit hutches and keeping them in an enclosure that is too small amounts to cruelty.
A decent rabbit hutch offers your rodent plenty of room to move about in. This means the rabbit can hop along all adjacent walls of the enclosure and not simply turn around.
Better rabbit runs will include interesting architectural features to keep rabbits amused and allow them exercise. Hutches are available with ladders, steps and even small platforms for the rabbit to hop up and down.
It is important to remember that rabbits, along with all animals, are freerange and the caged lifestyle is not entirely healthy. Your rabbit should be allowed out of its enclosure ideally once a day so that it can really stretch its legs.
Giving your rabbit some free time from a young age will also help in the event that it burrows out of its run. A rabbit habituated to the garden and its perimeters is less likely to get lost and escape.
