Anyone have an indoor rabbit?

[BubblPopElectrc]

Anyone have a rabbit that they keep indoor? Do they smell? I keep hearing that their.. waste smells really bad and "they are for outside."

Do you have it spayed/neutered? If not, any negative effects of not doing so?

I feel in love with lion head rabbit at a local breeder and would love one. But, I'm really sensitive when it comes to odors though.. so I wouldn't want to have one if it would constantly smell badly.

[OLIVIA_KARHIS]

most pet shops that sale them, already come fixed. At lest thats what petco told us when we got are ferrets a few yrs ago (I would ask, just to be on the safe side). Just like any pet, if you dont clean out where ever its living, every week, it will smell. Rabbit them self dont smell.

I have only had ferrets, so I am not much help. hope some one else can answer your questions better.

Good Luck!

[Nikki+2]

My daughter's first pet was a rabbit. He was a great little guy. His cage was never smelly but he was a dwarf bunny so I don't know if that was the difference. I had read that females are very easy to litter train and males very hard. I asked for a female- (darned if I could tell the difference) but it turned out to be a male. I freaked when his testicals dropped thinking my "girl" had a tumor. Um, yeah, that was embarrassing! Anyway he wasn't so good with the litter box but his poo was very hard and had no odor so I just had to be ready to vaccuum whenever he had been out. Females are no problem from what I've heard. He was a really sweet little cuddle bug.

[BubblPopElectrc]

Originally Posted by Nikki+2

My daughter's first pet was a rabbit. He was a great little guy. His cage was never smelly but he was a dwarf bunny so I don't know if that was the difference. I had read that females are very easy to litter train and males very hard. I asked for a female- (darned if I could tell the difference) but it turned out to be a male. I freaked when his testicals dropped thinking my "girl" had a tumor. Um, yeah, that was embarrassing! Anyway he wasn't so good with the litter box but his poo was very hard and had no odor so I just had to be ready to vaccuum whenever he had been out. Females are no problem from what I've heard. He was a really sweet little cuddle bug.

LOL. A tumor!

Did you not have him neutered? I was looking for a vet who spayed/neutered rabbits and it's outrageously expensive.

[Patti]

I had one when I was a teenager and it smelled pretty bad. I also had guinea pigs when my dtr was younger and one female turned out to be a male and we had 5 babies, so I had him neutered it was like 120.00. They really smelled even though I cleaned their cage every other day.

[Anna Banana]

I rescue rabbits...well, I rescue any animals, but I've rescued 15+ rabbits. I only have 5 right now, and only one is inside. I have never had any problems with the smell, but we clean her litter box every day, when we clean all the cat litter boxes (12 cats). Our house usually smells fine (with A LOT of daily cleaning), and the rabbit doesn't smell at all compared to the cats or the guinea pigs or rats.

We have a kind of unconventional set-up for our house rabbit, that you might want to think about rather than just putting him/her in a cage. Her "home" is a medium sized wire dog crate inside an ex-pen. Inside her crate, she has her litter box, and her food and water. (I don't know how much research you've done, but rabbits are sooooo smart and easy to potty train.)

She's in her crate during the night, out in the ex-pen during the day with access to her crate, and in the evenings, she hops around the house. She gets along with the other animals, but I worry about her hurting Wobie, so I try to keep my eye on her when she's out of her pen.

Good luck! Be sure to post pictures if you end up with a new bunny!

[BubblPopElectrc]

Originally Posted by Anna Banana

I rescue rabbits...well, I rescue any animals, but I've rescued 15+ rabbits. I only have 5 right now, and only one is inside. I have never had any problems with the smell, but we clean her litter box every day, when we clean all the cat litter boxes (12 cats). Our house usually smells fine (with A LOT of daily cleaning), and the rabbit doesn't smell at all compared to the cats or the guinea pigs or rats.

We have a kind of unconventional set-up for our house rabbit, that you might want to think about rather than just putting him/her in a cage. Her "home" is a medium sized wire dog crate inside an ex-pen. Inside her crate, she has her litter box, and her food and water. (I don't know how much research you've done, but rabbits are sooooo smart and easy to potty train.)

She's in her crate during the night, out in the ex-pen during the day with access to her crate, and in the evenings, she hops around the house. She gets along with the other animals, but I worry about her hurting Wobie, so I try to keep my eye on her when she's out of her pen.

Good luck! Be sure to post pictures if you end up with a new bunny!

Do you think she would be fine (behavioral and such) if she wasn't spayed?

Originally Posted by Patti

I had one when I was a teenager and it smelled pretty bad. I also had guinea pigs when my dtr was younger and one female turned out to be a male and we had 5 babies, so I had him neutered it was like 120.00. They really smelled even though I cleaned their cage every other day.

That's what I am afraid of!

[Anna Banana]

I forgot to reply about the spaying, lol...

None of my rabbits have ever been spayed or neutered. I might be ignorant, because I'm no expert, but I don't think it would make that much of a difference. Maybe the boys would be calmer if they were neutered, but all the girls have been really cuddly and sweet even though they haven't been spayed.

[BubblPopElectrc]

Originally Posted by Anna Banana

I forgot to reply about the spaying, lol...

None of my rabbits have ever been spayed or neutered. I might be ignorant, because I'm no expert, but I don't think it would make that much of a difference. Maybe the boys would be calmer if they were neutered, but all the girls have been really cuddly and sweet even though they haven't been spayed.

Good to know.. thanks!

[RoxyJosMom]

I bought my dtr 2 miniture angora female (checked by the breeder and a farmer that had rabbits - yep, both females) bunnies that were to "guaranteed" to stay very small so they could stay indoors. Bought 1st cage - outgrew it. Bought 2nd cage - outgrew it. Bought 3rd cage - Ethel started chasing Trixie around the cage for long times - non-stop. Called vet who told me how to sex them to be sure. I tried, but Ethel absolutey did not appreciate me getting up inside her bubble! Took them to the vet - he took Ethel in the back and brought her back out and said "I just don't have the heart to call you Ethel, Mr. Bunny." So, I made the appt to have him fixed (didn't want a bunch of baby bunnies to worry about). The day I picked him up, 3 people in the vet's office asked me if they could buy a baby if we had any. Trixie was a light brown with very dark brown around the nose, edges of ears and paw tips, and Ethel,oops Mr. Bunny, was white with dark silver in the same places as Trixie. Took them home, bought a bigger cage. Finally, as they grew to each be quite a bit bigger than a basketball had a hutch specially built for them and moved them outside next to a storage shed under a big tree. Sorry, got reminiscing - they were beautiful and sweet bunnies but grew into what looked like mutant killer rabbits - but still sweet .
Hope, if you get your bunny, you can keep it inside. After having raises many indoor rodents of all types, they only smell if you don't keep them clean. And rabbits can be litter trained.
Forgot to add - our guinea pigs (the males) did tend to smell.

[BubblPopElectrc]

Originally Posted by RoxyJosMom

I bought my dtr 2 miniture angora female (checked by the breeder and a farmer that had rabbits - yep, both females) bunnies that were to "guaranteed" to stay very small so they could stay indoors. Bought 1st cage - outgrew it. Bought 2nd cage - outgrew it. Bought 3rd cage - Ethel started chasing Trixie around the cage for long times - non-stop. Called vet who told me how to sex them to be sure. I tried, but Ethel absolutey did not appreciate me getting up inside her bubble! Took them to the vet - he took Ethel in the back and brought her back out and said "I just don't have the heart to call you Ethel, Mr. Bunny." So, I made the appt to have him fixed (didn't want a bunch of baby bunnies to worry about). The day I picked him up, 3 people in the vet's office asked me if they could buy a baby if we had any. Trixie was a light brown with very dark brown around the nose, edges of ears and paw tips, and Ethel,oops Mr. Bunny, was white with dark silver in the same places as Trixie. Took them home, bought a bigger cage. Finally, as they grew to each be quite a bit bigger than a basketball had a hutch specially built for them and moved them outside next to a storage shed under a big tree. Sorry, got reminiscing - they were beautiful and sweet bunnies but grew into what looked like mutant killer rabbits - but still sweet .
Hope, if you get your bunny, you can keep it inside. After having raises many indoor rodents of all types, they only smell if you don't keep them clean. And rabbits can be litter trained.
Forgot to add - our guinea pigs (the males) did tend to smell.

Angoras are pretty! Were they a lot of maintenance?

Seems like a lot of people have had sexing (of the bunnies. ) problems.

[Tytainea]

I have also thought about getting a bunny. I am more worried about whether or not a bunny and a puppy can get along. Does anyone know if they play well together or do they need to be kept separate?

[trixiesmith]

I have one & he is litter box trained. He never stinks at all.

[Nikki+2]

Originally Posted by Tytainea

I have also thought about getting a bunny. I am more worried about whether or not a bunny and a puppy can get along. Does anyone know if they play well together or do they need to be kept separate?

We actually had to get rid of our bunny when we got a puppy. Our puppy (not a yorkie) loved to chase poor little Flopsy and it scared him to death. I felt like I wasn't letting him out as often as he should be once we got the puppy and luckily my cleaning lady was in love with him and took him. Maybe with an adult dog (hopefully calmer) it would work.

Kyle, no I never did have him neutered. It didn't seem to be a problem, he didn't mark or hump and like I said was very sweet. I'm wondering if the type of bedding might be the difference between why some of us have not had an odor problem. I can't think for the life of me what we used, it was about 10 years ago but I know it wasn't cedar shavings.

[mizzwanned]

I had a rabbit when I was 7, it didn't smell but it was messy. We gave it away to this guy that had a big farm and tons of field. It was a bigger rabbit. Then in PR when I was about 12 I had a tiny white rabbit. It was the cutest! It would follow me around and it fit in the palms of my hands. It wasn't messy and didn't smeel at all. It was an albino and it stayed small. I was only in PR for that summer so I had to give it to someone. I hope that rabbit had a happy life. I wish I coulda brought it here. And it costs me only like $1.