Content

• Steps
• Rabbit Toy Ideas
• Warnings
• What do you need

Rabbit cages can be quite expensive, especially if you want to give your rabbit a run when you are not around to release him / her. A cheaper and more efficient way to get a rabbit cage is to make one yourself. You will need wood planks, basic tools, and some materials that you most likely have somewhere in your house or yard. Soon your bunny will enjoy his new home as much as you enjoyed building it!

Steps

1. 1 Gather the required materials. Most of the materials you will most likely be able to find in any lumber store (in construction supermarkets).
2. 2 Saw a large board into 3 pieces of 2 x 3 feet (60cm x 90cm). Knock them together to create two walls and a floor. Drill holes for ventilation. Make sure you nailed the walls to the top of the floor and not to the sides, as this will not fit the ceiling.
3. 3 Put on a protective mask. Drill holes along the edges along the two long sides of the large piece of plastic and along three sides of the small piece of plastic. Attach the large piece for the ceiling and the small piece for the back wall. You can attach a small piece a little higher for better ventilation and / or cleaning of the cage.
4. 4 Use a drill or chisel (drill is better in this case) to make a 1/4 "x 2 x 2ft (6mm x 5cm x 60cm) slot in the front, against the plastic wall." In a small piece of wood, drill a hole large enough to fit your finger (if your bunny is biting, drill a hole so that your finger only partially goes in; if your bunny is a sweetheart, drill the hole right through) to make opening the cage easy ... You will be inserting this into the slot, but not now. First you need to make the bolt and the interior.
5. 5 Take a thin nail and hammer it partially into the wood on the opposite side of the slot where the rabbit will be, and hammer from different directions so that the nail bends. If you did everything correctly, the nail will stick into the cage.
6. 6 Make a cleaner. Drill holes through each dowel about 4-6 inches (10-15 cm) down. Insert the washer through both holes. Insert a 2.5 "(6 cm) bolt through the washer and thread it into a nut, preferably 5" (23 cm) wide. Attach two paddles, one to each dowel at the same end, with the holes facing each other, and when you close the cleaner, so that the edges line up.
7. 7 Take a pocketknife and a piece of unpainted, raw wood from any unused leftover. Make shavings - this will be a great primer for the animal.
8. 8 Find a piece of packing foam or buy cheap foam insoles. Also find a soft rag or any nice cloth twice the size of the foam. Place the styrofoam on one side of the fabric. Place the other side of the fabric on top of the foam and sew the edges of the fabric. To create a hammock, tie a piece of tape to both sides of the bed and tap / tape to the ceiling of the cage. To make a regular bed, just put it in the cage under the shelter.
9. 9 Find an old cardboard box (2-3 inches (5-8 cm) thick) and get scissors and tape. Cut the corner of the box to the size you want the roof to be. Cut a long piece of the wall box.
10. 10 Find an old beach ball and cut off the part where you are blowing. Cut off the cork (everything else from this part will be needed, we don't need to rip the ball to shreds). Now you need a fist-sized plastic bag (look in your cupboard). In the middle of one of the two short sides, cut a hole the size of the nose of the previously cut ball where you are blowing. Empty the bag (eat or drink the contents) and rinse at least 5 times. Now use waterproof glue to glue the hole you are blowing into to the bag (rubber / synthetic glue will work, but if the bag is plastic, you don't need to use hot melt glue, or the bag will shrink and you have to start over). When the drinker is dry, tie it to one of the vents you drilled on the sides of the cage.

Rabbit Toy Ideas

• Hard cardboard molds - for burying
• Cardboard rolls from toilet paper or paper towels
• Untreated wicker baskets with: cut paper, straw, or other organic materials to dig into (try not to use dyed materials, paint can be toxic to your rabbit)
• Yellow Pages - for tearing
• Cat toys: plastic balls that you can roll and throw
• Parrot toys that can be thrown or hung from the ceiling of the cage to beat or chew on
• Children's toys: hard plastic toys (not teething toys), rattles and keys, throwable
• Baby or bird whipping mobiles
• "Resting place for a lazy cat" (a cardboard box with a slope and windows) so that you can climb in there and gnaw on it. Cat houses, tunnels, pipes and trees will also work.
• Push and roll toys such as large rubber balls, empty round boxes, and cans
• Rabbit toys
• Plastic rainbow springs
• Tilt toys or observation posts to observe the world
• Dried pine cones
• Climbing toys
• Straw broom / broom
• Hand towel, for tying and running away
• Untreated wood, branches and logs that are more than 3 months old. Branches of apple trees can even be eaten straight from the tree. Stay away from: cherries, peaches, apricots, plums and mahogany, which are poisonous.
• Raw damask or maize mats
• Some things to jump on (rabbits like to sit higher)
• Multi-colored hard plastic bottle caps with detergents and softeners. They have great edges to make it easy to grip with your teeth and make interesting collision sounds. In addition, the closure ribs embedded in the plastic create a popping sound when the rabbit burrows into them. These caps are great for playing with a person on the floor. But make sure these caps are not from caustic bottles (like pipe cleaners, bathroom cleaners, etc.), as traces of such substances can still remain on the caps no matter how long you wash them.
• If you do not have the aforementioned commonly used materials at home, look on the Internet which is cheaper: buy such materials or ready-made things.

Warnings

• Make sure your rabbits are slowly adjusting to their new location, or they may get sick or even die. So put them between the new cage and the old cage while you build the new cage and make toys.
• Do not use a wire floor unless you intend to add a bunny board. Rabbits don't have pads and tendons will hurt. Rabbits are very easy to train to do their business in a pot (filled with hay, not cat litter, which is dangerous). In fact, most rabbits do not even need to learn this, it will be enough if you place the pot in the opposite corner from the drinker. Rabbits usually defecate in one place to make it harder for predators to find them.

What do you need

• two pieces of 1/4-inch plywood (6 mm)
• one - measuring 3 feet (90 cm) by 6 feet (180 cm)
• one - 2ft (60cm) x 2ft (60cm)
• a piece of plastic measuring 2 feet (60 cm) x 3 feet (90 cm)
• a square piece of plastic with a side length of 2 feet (60 cm)
• two 1-inch (2.5 cm) wooden dowels
• one washer 2 "(5cm) thick less than 1" (2.5cm) in diameter
• a few screws or nails
• two fairly small round baskets / spatulas
• protective mask