Can a bunny live in a cage outside?

Answer 1

Yes, provided it is safe from predators, has a proper cage, and doesn't get too hot. It is safer to keep a rabbit inside the house, but make sure you bunny-proof your house, for you, your house, and your bunny!

Answer 2

Yes, bunny can live in a cage outdoors, but it is not recommended. They are easily frightened by predators (dogs, cats...) that roam freely outside and are more often forgotten by their owners ( far from the eyes, far from the heart..). They are also at a danger of getting heat-stroke in high summer and/or freezing in winter if you live in a northern country. The lifepan of an outdoor bunny is about 3-4 years shorter than indoor rabbits. If you have no other choice, make sure he has a box in which he can hide and burrow in bad weather (you can fill it with hay for extra insulation) or if menaced by something, and take a great care in getting him food and water , especially in winter when it gets cold (congealed water = thirsty bunny!)

Answer 3

First answer: Yes. Before they were domesticated they lived outdoors.

Response: That's very faulty logic! Rabbits have been domesticated for almost a thousand years, and in that time they've been transported all over the world, and they've become dependent on humans.

First of all, when they were wild, rabbits lived in the western Mediterranean region. It never gets too hot or too cold there. Pet rabbits are a completely different species than the wild rabbits in North America. Pet rabbits can freeze to death in the winter, and die of heat in the summer, even when the wild rabbits in that area survive just fine.

Second of all, wild animals have strong instincts that keep them alive. Pet rabbits haven't needed those instincts since they were domesticated, so they've lost a lot of them, and you can't expect them to know how to take care of themselves. Pet rabbits also don't have the benefit of education: wild animals learn from their mothers, and this helps them know what to do once they're on their own.

How would a pet rabbit find food, or know which foods are healthy and which are poisonous? How would they know where to hide from predators? They don't know these things.

If you don't want your pet rabbit anymore, you have to find a new home for it. Look around for local rabbit rescue groups or animal shelters. You can't just let the rabbit go outdoors: it won't know how to survive, and it will probably live a short, terrified, miserable life.

If you want to keep your rabbit outside, you have to consider all the possible dangers, and make sure your rabbit is protected. Here are some of the dangers:

• Bad weather
• Predators
• Parasites, insects
• Lack of care (easier to forget about them)
• Exposure to toxins (like pollution, pesticides, diseases, bacteria)
• "Foxtails" (plant seeds)

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Answer 4

yes you can but in the winter time you need to make sure it has plenty of hay or straw to snuggle in.. if it is really cold outside you would probably need to move it.. but only in extreme measures.. and its water might freeze so make sure you check it.

Answer 5

im guessing that means go outside instead ov got outside? if so yes they can as i have had two indoor dwarf bunnies and they live outside, nd they love it.