Three Pet Rabbits - 3 October 2024

I wrote about my friends’ rabbit keeping some time ago. There were four rabbits but after a relatively short while only one rabbit remained. The rabbits were in a big open enclosure and predators managed to get in. My friends then got two extra rabbits but were concerned the story would repeat itself. On Saturday I got given the older rabbit and the two younger ones. I don’t know that much about rabbit keeping but I’ve done some research and accepted the challenge.

The two younger rabbits are both female. There still is a question mark about the bigger rabbit and how fertile he is. We’ll soon find out. He is a very gentle pet so it would be nice if there were kittens at some point.

To keep the younger rabbits from being taken by predators like cats, rats and urban foxes, we housed them all in an old greenhouse. There’s a convenient path down the middle which you can see in the photo. This is better than a rabbit hutch because it’s a bigger area for them and I can go in and visit them. It's not an open enclosure with access to prey birds as my friends discovered. The rabbits are very keen on the old kale plant there and have found some mint and grape vine leaves apart from the hay that we got for them.

I’m hoping to find a house for myself in a more rural area soon so they’ll be happier there but in the meantime the greenhouse is perfect with lots of undergrowth that they can munch on all day. I can go into their home so they have lots of contact as they’re so friendly and tame.

Below are the two other posts I've written about rabbits :

Four Pet Rabbits - 13 May 2024
https://steemit.com/burnsteem25/@flowertron/four-pet-rabbits-13-may-2024

Four Pet Rabbits : An update - 6 June 2024
https://steemit.com/burnsteem25/@flowertron/four-pet-rabbits-an-update-6-june-2024

Thank you for reading !