If you keep your house at a comfortable temperature, then he should be fine. Rabbits tend to like things on the cooler side anyway, so I wouldn’t worry as long as he has a place to snuggle if he is cold.

May I suggest you be very cautious about giving him (and Especially Leaving him alone with) fabrics! Until you know if he eats towels, rugs, mats and/or beds it would be very unwise to leave him with any. Offering him a cotton towel and seeing if he chews (alright) or eats (Not Alright) it would be a good start. Ingested fibres can be very dangerous to a rabbit’s health.

While he’s free roming I expect he’ll find spots he thinks are cozy. Cardboard and/or untreated wood boxes can provide a place where he can feel sheltered and if they are the right size they will retain his body heat. As LBJ mentioned they prefer cooler temperatures so there probably isn’t a need for concern, but if you are really uneasy a hot water bottle tucked into a cardboard box is a good source of heat that he can choose to be as close to (or far away from) as he wishes to be. (The box should stop him biting the bottle, and keeps it warmer longer.)

Hope this helps give you some alternate ideas. Once you’ve been with and observed him for a while you may be able to give him cotton towels, or fleece blankets, or little rugs, … just depends on the rabbit.

Maybe someone else can remember the exact temperature range that rabbits are happiest at, but if my memory is accurate you really have nothing to worry about. Far as I recall you are at the lower end but still with in the range.

I’d suggest you give yourself a little time with him, once you know about his chewing habits it will be easier to work out what is best. But its worth pointing out that they don’t view these things the same way we do, … having different kinds of flooring/surfaces for him to lie on is important (not because of temperature but because of his paws and joints), however, lots of rabbits ignore the softer options provided by their humans and Choose a plain hard surface to rest on.

Something you could get right away to help in those first few weeks are some untreated grass, straw or hay mats. That would give him something besides the floor to lie on and its fine if he eats them. Both this store (Binky Bunny) and the Busy Bunny carry a nice selection of different sized grass and hay mats, … its an easy safe solution.

You may get lucky, some rabbits can have soft things. Mine ate the cotton towel I offered (and removed), don’t eat their grass mat (that I bought for them to eat, … love how they do that sort of thing), and have two little rugs in their condo. They have carefully ripped up a large section of the fibre on one rug (they pull it off and pile it to one side not eating it so I just pick it up and let be, if they want a bald rug that’s fine by me), and the other (identical in all details except that its on a different level of the condo) hasn’t been touched.

I know cardboard boxes don’t sound lovely but they are surprisingly warm, (a grass mat in one would also be cushiony) and unless they eat an excessive amount chewing on them is safe, and a box that is destroyed won’t cause you any upset, boxes are not hard to come by.

Hope some of this may be helpful.

Looking forward to hearing about your new family member, … good luck bringing him home and settling him in.

I think I remember reading rabbits prefer it 60-70 degrees, so yea, I agree… I don’t think you need to worry there. They deal much better with the cool temperatures than hot ones. We keep our house around 65, sometimes down to 60 at night. Bumpy stays pretty comfortable, usually just laying on the indoor/outdoor carpeting. Once in awhile he sleeps in one of his litterpans that’s filled with hay. But I think its only because he likes to, not that he’s cold.

Does he like warm things? My bunny hates them. If I try to given him a towel or blanket it he gets mad and immediately pulls it out of his bed and shoves it in a corner of his pen. His favorite temperature is freezing. I bring him snow in a sled inside in the winter and he loves laying in it.

I would give him a box with a grass mat or hay in it.

So amazing how so many bunnies are so different with fabric beds.  Some eat it, some just destroy it and leave little fabric confetti around, some  just pee on it, some avoid it, some love lying on it. Right now I have a bunny who loves lying on it. If it gets lumpy she will try and rearrange it and by doing so, she chews little holes in it, but doesn’t eat it…So it looks like a Swiss cheese blanket surrounded by fabric confetti. And sometimes she wants to feel cozy and protected and creates blanket mounds around her. So just watch and see what your bunny does and if you notice chewing, tugging and rearranging just make sure your bunny isn’t actually eating. Many times bunnies will chew holes but they will spit out material. However there are those bunnies that seem intent on actually eating it as Grey Dove pointed out. So its just a matter of watching what your bunny does