Right now since my bunnies are so small they live in my daughter’s bedroom in a small cage.  My daughter spends most of her time in her bedroom in the summer playing her Wii or watching TV.  When they get a little bigger and we build the NIC cage they will be down in the living room where the ferrets are. 

The boys are held a lot during the day and at night we bring them downstairs to hop around in the living room. 

I would say leave your bunny in the kitchen if she’s used to the hustle and bustle and take her in your room with you when you go in there.  She might get depressed if she’s moved from an active part of the house to a quieter area.

i prefer buns being in a central family location. so if you’re not home, maybe your mom can talk to her or spend time with her. if you’re not planning on getting her a friend, it might be better to leave her somewhere she’ll get more interaction.

our two are in a room off the living room and our bedroom. we have to walk thru the bunny room to get to our bedroom. during the day, they are allowed everywhere in teh house.

Right now I have my 3 couples (yes, Simba is not only permanent, but he has a companion, Hershey now) in separate rooms.

One couple is in the office/living room in a large NIC condo right next to my computer table so I spend a lot of time with them.

Pringles and Toby have a large condo in a back bedroom and have the run of their room, kitchen and my bedroom when out. I have a lamp, radio and reading chair in there and I work in my bedroom a lot so I play with them a lot too.

Simba shared the back bedroom with Pringles/Toby, but right now I have him and Hershey bonding in my bedroom in a large pen. I’m debating whether or not to make the arrangement permanent with the couples separated.

I make a point of spending time with each during the evenings either working or just sitting on the floor to watch tv or read. My house is older and has an abundance of doors, so I can close off different ways to give them new areas to explore.

I hope it’s OK to answer the ferret question here…

Ferrets are MUCH different than rabbits. They are obligate carnivores, which means they can’t digest vegetation, sort of like how rabbits can’t digest meat. They’re very curious and get into EVERYTHING! They’re funny little critters but they are poop machines. And the poop isn’t nice and hard and easy to keep up with like bunny poo. It’s loose and stinky. They are very high maintenance pets…I personally think more high maintenance than bunnies, and they’re prone to health issues. I’ve spent up to $1000 trying to save a sick ferret only to lose the battle. They also bond very strongly to their cage mates and their people. Abandoned ferrets and ferrets who lose their cage mates can literally die from depression. Homeless ferrets can go into what’s called shelter shock…and have to be force fed and cared for 24/7 until they bond with a care giver or new owner. I love my critters but honestly, if I had a bunny years ago I probably wouldn’t have ferrets now. My foster ferret and my female are both seniors. My boy is still young-ish. When these three go to the bridge I won’t be getting more ferrets.

I don’t want to sound discouraging because I really do love them I’m just burned out I think.

OMG they CANNOT eat fruit and dairy!!! Ugh!

Many ferrets, especially kits, bite. They have to be nip trained. Once a ferret is nip trained it will very rarely ever bite again…but the training is pretty intense. And socialization is important. If the only time you ever stick your hand in a ferret cage is to feed it…then the ferret is going to be territorial and bite you. In that case blood will most likely be drawn. I’ve helped nip train many a foster ferret and it was my least favorite part of ferret rescue work.

My ferrets always had to play in a playpen because of the dogs but now that I have my own house I can block the dogs out of the living room for playtime…and I have recently discovered that my little old lady foster ferret likes to nip feet! The only time she nips is when there are feet to be attacked and then it’s only because she’s playing. Ferrets have very tough skin and they bite each other very hard when they play. They don’t know that people don’t like to be nipped unless we teach them. I think it’s a little late for Miss Marcy but I’m working on it anyway. She ticked me of pretty bad yesterday and I think she got the message…and she tried to make up to me. They are very sensitive. Probably even more so than rabbits. They don’t tend to have attitude like rabbits. They don’t mind being picked up but they’re too hyper to sit still for very long so they will wriggle around trying to get down, but it’s not frantic like it is with a bunny.

They definately have their up side and now I feel bad for making them sound like little pains in the butt…lol. They are extremely affectionate.

Edson is in my office which is right across from the kitchen.  We are always in the office so he gets a lot of interaction.  Not sure the basement is the greatest place for the very reasons others have expressed.

My rabbits have there own room, the rabbit room. It was the nursery when my sister lived in my house. It’s a good spot because it’s right next to our living room so they get lots of attention and we also have air conditioning in the living room which cools them off too. I find with their room there is too much natural light, when the sun goes down it pretty much beams right on Bindi so I have to put dark towls over the curtains to keep it out.

If I were you I would decide putting my bun whearever she will get the most time and attention with you.

Coco lives in our bedroom – mostly for socialization as she was rescued from an isolated situation.

She does not like when I am away for very long…and then we make a path to the office space where my husband works in the house.

In some ways I view it as the same with attachment issues with kids ( my field of study is Early Childhood Education) – she is still in an attachment phase after being alone for so long.

Hi  Cotton has the run of the living room. the girls have the bathroom the boy has the hall kitchen area.

And Cotton does not let anything into his area. He thinks he owns the whole house. He is ok with the girls he doesn’t mark when they have been visiting with him. Unfortunately hubby does not want them together it upsets him when they circle each other and stuff. Maybe when he is sleeping.

My bunny condo is in the living room.  My apt is 2 floors w/ the living room and kitchen on the rear 2nd floor of the house and 2 1/2 bedrooms and bathroom on the 3rd floor.  We picked the living room b/c it is the hub for us all when we are home.  We also have 4 cats.  The 2 fat cats tend to stay in the living room and the 2 skinnier cats like the excessive heat upstairs.  Jessica LOVES the stairs and long hallways.  When she comes out she tends to run through the hallway up/down the stairs like a goofball.  Leo prefers to stay in the living room for his hip hop time. 

I had considered taking the 1/2 bedroom upstairs and turning it into a rabbit room, but I don’t think that they would appreciate being separated from the action.  Plus how on earth could they beg for treats if they can’t show me their big sad bunny eyes.

Charlie is in the living room/ kitchen/ dining area (small small apartment) and I think he would despise me forever if he was taken out of the hub of the house. He loves the interaction with people.

Mine is in my bedroom (only room my mom would let me use) my only concern about her being there is that she does not see anyone unless I sit in her pen with her.

Ours are in the dining room. The original thought was to put them in the livingroom and then we discovered that we just didn’t have room for them in there, so the dining room became their home base. It’s right between the kitchen and the livingroom and is open to both so they get a fair bit of intereraction from both.
– Annette

Soon she’ll be in the living room nook with her Xpen. I considered my room, but I think she loves watching people, so living room seems much better.

My buns used to all share a bedroom next to our bedroom but we moved them to the basement. I worried myself to death over this decision but in the past year we have had about 4 tornado scares and my biggest fear was that we could not get all 4 buns to the basement in enough time since our bedrooms were on the second floor.
Believe it or not they like living downstairs in the basement. Their houses are huge (each one is about 20sq ft). The floor is concrete but all of their NIC houses have carpet and their two cottages have carpet underneath as well. It stays cooler downstairs than anywhere in the house and the floor is much easier to clean than the hardwood floors they had upstairs. Since the buns typically sleep during the day it is quieter for them unless I am home and then I always have someone running around. THey all get about 5 hrs a day out to play and they all know how to go up and down the stairs without problems.

If we didn’t have so many buns they would be in the living room or dining room but since they are all together they can keep eachother entertained. lol

Here’s a funny….DH has terrible taste in movies!  Every now and then he picks somthing alright, else it’s usually the really strange/ odd independent things or the movies that are designed for pre-teens or natural disasters (they are never natural)…does that give everyone an idea???

Anyway, we’ve found that when we watch a DH crappy movie (we actually call them “Tom’s crappy movie”, Jessica and Leo usually hunger down on their food shelf and it appears that they are watching the movie.  They don’t do this w/ moview I pick or even somewhat decent movies.  It’s really funny…it’s like they have the same taste in movies as my husband

Sophie is in the corner of the living room that opens up to the hallway. The entertainment center is on the same wall and I SWEAR she thinks when we are watching tv that we are watching her. it’s hysterical. It’s quiet in that area at times, but busy in the evenings so she’s always involved in the evening activities.

^^^lol! Sophie thinks, “why are they STARING at me?!”

my buns used to be in my bedroom but then i got daxter so i moved them into the living room so they could have a larger condo, i think anywhere which isnt too hot or too cold should be fine!

Kitchen! My two love the social time when I eat in there and LOVE to do bunny-500’s when I vacate the area and it is “their” time. Although I have noticed with mine, and other have reported this too, that when any meat is being cooked (even though it is not very often), they do get spooked.

I have my three in the family room, which is actually part of a “great room” with the kitchen.  My foster bunny Cali is in the Living Room.  My guys are not good enough with their litterbox and they tend to chew rugs, so they are in their condo when we are not home.

I think Sophie thinks “I am goooorgeous…..ofcourse they should worship me!”….she doesn’t realize i am watching Project Runway and not her!