The most basic and expensive investment that you need to make when purchasing a brand new rabbit or another rabbit is the cage. Rabbit cages that are high quality and offer everything that a rabbit needs such as room to move around and some jumping space can run you up to $300+. For the price of a simple low quality cage you can make yourself one even better than what a store would charge $300 for, with just a little time and effort.
However, if you build your very own rabbit hutch out of a few simple material you can cut the cost down to $50 or less that will have more room and a lot more comfortable for your rabbit than anything you could purchase at the stores.
And another benefit to building your own rabbit hutch is the added jumping room that you can add for your brand new rabbit, this is vital to a happy but caged rabbit. If your rabbit does not have enough jumping room to get some exercise throughout the day you run the risk of having a depressed rabbit, which can lead to bad behavior.
Also if you want to give your rabbit all of the luxuries that you possibly can you could also add a type of AstroTurf to the cage. This lets the rabbit feel as though it is back out hopping on the grass all within the confines of its rabbit hutch.
If you are sly enough you can make up a whole bunch of ways to customize your rabbit hutch as well. Such as one woman who told me about her rabbit hutch that she came up with. She included flowers and various other plants into the hutch making it feel a little more outdoorsy.
Its no wonder so many people are searching for ways to build their own rabbit hutch as the initial investment is so much lower than purchasing a cage right off the bat and when you get the time and money you can add things to upgrade to it as well. You will like the hutch more and so will your brand new rabbit.
Dan Foote has been in the same situation, looking for a great alternative to purchasing a rabbit cage and while searching online found the perfect way to build your own rabbit cage.
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