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The perfect pet for young children is a rabbit. Rabbits are small and cute and cuddly, cheap to feed and cheap to buy, quiet and don’t live nearly as long as a dog or a cat, so you won’t be looking after him 15 years from now.

Not only that but they can be an indoors pet as well as an outdoors pet.

A rabbit hutch is comprised of two main living areas. The first is a sleeping area where he should be able to sleep out of the weather to keep warm. The second is an outdoors run where he can run and jump as rabbits do.

The rabbit hutches that you find in pet shops are generally too small.

They are too small for one rabbit let alone two. Rabbits are extremely active and need lots of exercise and for this reason most rabbits are unable to get sufficient quality exercise in a small hutch.

If you are keeping him outdoors you can overcome this problem by having a rabbit run. A run is simply a protected place where he can play when left out of the hutch where he is protected from predators and unable to escape.

But you can also keep a rabbit indoors. For example you can keep rabbit cages in the laundry where he will be warm and dry and happy.

And whether you decide to keep his rabbit hutch indoors or outdoors it still needs cleaning.

And is important to remember not to put wire on the floor of the hutch as rabbits do not like walking on wire.

Just the same as for outdoors rabbits, indoors rabbits need plenty of exercise and time out of his hutch each day.

Why not have a room set aside in the house for rabbits daily exercise. Taking him out of the hutch, playing with him and exercising him is the best part of having a rabbit.

Though it takes a little effort rabbits can also be house trained, or what can be known as potty trained.

However before you allow your rabbit to play in his play area you need to do a thorough inspection because rabbits are very quick to disappear into holes, and can become stuck there. Do a full inspection of your rabbit play area for any dangerous holes.

Then populate it with fun things such as plastic pipes to play in and you and your rabbit can play, and exercise, to your, and his, heart’s content.