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Forum BEHAVIOR Leaving the cage door open at night?

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    • pixmix
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        So usually Anais stays in her cage at night while I sleep with the door closed. Now, this means by 5:30 am she is ready to bust out of the cage (quite often I’ll open it and she’ll just go lie somewhere else in the room) and wakes me up by making a lot of noise. The main reason why I don’t like to leave her out unsupervised is because I don’t want her in my bedroom. Recently, though, Anais has ventured into the bedroom on her own (while I was looking the other way) and discovered the mysterious underbelly of my bed. I wouldn’t mind if it wasn’t for the fact that my bedroom is literally 5 ft wide and that I can’t clean up any potential mess she would make on the far side of the bed.

        So having forced my hand, I bought a baby gate.

        But now that I have the baby gate, there’s nothing she really can get into. The bathroom door remains closed so she can’t get in there, and she knows her way around the kitchen (any dangerous parts are sectioned off from her). The rooms are bunny proofed, at least successfully at this point in time. So there’s really no reason to NOT let her out at night now. 

        I’m still nervous about it though!

        What should I look out for or expect? Would it be any different than keeping the door closed? Would she even venture out of the cage anyway? Any tips or suggestions?


      • genie1
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          I still don’t think that I would. part of the reason why I love rabbits are because when your not home you know where they are. (to any free range animale lovers out there – great. I love cats and dogs too. and if it works for you then I couldn’t be happier).
          even with a baby gate things don’t always work out. I had a rabbit named snowball that would jump over them and jump over pieces of cardboard thigh high.


        • Megabunny
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            Yeah. That’s a tough one. Lots of people seem to manage it, but I can’t take my eyes off my fella because he always comes up with SOMTHING to get into…unless the room is close to empty


          • manic_muncher
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              I have 3 single buns at the moment. I’m hoping to bond at least 2 of them soon, but the way we roll around here is… the oldest bun who was here first is free-roam whenever the other 2 are not having floor time. Many times when they are all sleeping he’ll put himself in his “room”, or sometimes he sleeps next to one of the other rabbits on the opposite side of the pen. Sometimes he sleeps in the middle of the floor, and we have to be careful when coming through at night so we don’t accidentally kick him.

              I definitely think it would depend on the rabbit. Out of my three, I think two -could- be free-roam all the time, unfortunately they don’t like each other… at least for now!

              I would say expect some loose poos initially, and you may find she wants to potty in a new corner, so you may need to get another litterbox. I do have one community box that everyone likes to use when they are out, and I had to place it in that spot because it is right beside one of the rabbit’s pen, so everytime the other 2 are out, they have to go make that area smell like them. Constant power struggle around here. Ugh.

              Don’t be surprised if you still often find her chillin out in her caged area, that’s like her bedroom!

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