Materials:
- A cardboard box or multiple boxes
- Box Cutter
Cost:
- $5 – only if you don’t own a box cutter already **Don’t worry the cutter will come in handy for lots of other projects too!**
To a rabbit a cardboard box is a hidey house, a tunnel or something to chew and rip to their heart’s content! Best of all you can find free boxes everywhere! Check around your house or in your garage. Do you get supplies shipped to you at work in boxes? If you do ask if you can bring them home for your rabbits! Many supermarkets pile their extra boxes at the checkouts for customers to take. When choosing a box, try to pick ones that have few or no dyes in them and don’t have tape or staples holding them together. Large peel off shipping labels or other stickers need to be removed first before you give the box to your bunny. These things can hurt your rabbit if ingested.
Once you have your box, let your imagination take over! If you only want to use one box, you can cut two holes in the box as an entrance and exit. In a matter of minutes your box has become a hidey house! Connect more boxes together with an assortment of holes to create a fun ‘burrow’ for your rabbit to run in and out of!
If you have mischievous rabbits like me, they may spend more time ‘remodeling’ their new box than actually hiding in it! They’ll love tearing at the doorways you made and trying to dig their way through the bottom of the box. Rocky loves to jump on top of the box and stand up on his hind legs to get a better look at his surroundings. Oh, that reminds me, be careful of where you put your box! If you confine your rabbit to an area of the house with a baby gate or an uncovered ex-pen it may serve as a bunny launch pad to freedom!
Check out some of the great ideas I’ve used boxes for!
Boxes not only make great hideouts, but they’re also a great way to contain a mess! When my rabbits are running around the house I always have a litter box or two inside a cardboard box. I cut a hole in the front of the box so it makes it more fun for them. Best of all when they jump in and out of their litterbox, it keeps my carpets mess free! Sometimes as Honey demonstrates in the far right photo, any box will do! She became obsessed with this ‘useless’ piece of packaging. I would stand it up for her over and over again as she loved to knock it down!
