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Ungrateful bunnies2007-11-24 22:15:46

I have two male rabbits which I recently put into an enclosure approximately 10 feet x 8 feet x 6 feet x 9 feet and 7 feet high, there's a two-storey hutch in there too. I let them out of the hutch every morning and shut them back in again at about 11.30pm, so they have free-roam all day. Anyway, despite this lovely big run they still try to dig under the gate and fencing to get out! There's logs and pipes for them in the run, I put fresh grass and dandelions on the ground for them everyday as well as the rabbit food in their hutch, and yet all this isn't enough for them!

But anyway, my question is, if I bury chicken wire under the ground around the edges of the enclosure will that stop them digging? Or is there anything else I could do?

Answers:

The only thing you can do to stop them digging through is to have a material on the floor of the enclosure that is un-diggable! Such as concrete.

Your little rabbits are not "ungrateful"! They are just rabbits with a natural instinct to dig (afterall they live in burrows in the wild).

Its nice that you have provided such a good home for them rather than letting them rot in a hutch 24/7.

Over time as your rabbits get older they will mellow out a little bit, and may perhaps stop the digging.

In the meantime, perhaps you could consider having them neutered which will help the raging hormones to settle and get them through the naughty teenage years a little quicker!