My previous rabbit, Bunny, just loved to go outdoors. She particularly liked the front yard. I’m very sure it was because there were so many things to watch, traffic, people walking by on the sidewalk, and also people walking their dogs. There were some bushes near the sidewalk and she just loved to lay hidden there for the perverse joy of having dogs walk by only a few feet away and not notice her! She was never out by herself, always my wife or me were nearby. Usually, she was out for 1/2 hour or so, since it could be a little booring to watch her. In the morning, I’d take a cup of coffee and the morning newspaper to wile away the time. She was pretty obedient, she learned not to go in the neighbors yard, since I would always shoo her back to our property. She was pretty good about going back into the house. Sometimes I had to use what I called my rabbit wrangling stick. She would often be behind bushes where I couldn’t reach her so the idea was to push the stick into the vegetation and give her backside a push towards the house. Of course, I never hit her, just a gentle push. Sometimes she like to have me chase her before she decided to run back into the house. We always kept the front door open when she was out. If she became scared which she occasionally did, she would run back into the house. The front door was in effect her bunny hole.
My current rabbits, nearly 7 months old, are not yet interested in going outside. I set them on the stoop in front of the front door, they do seem to be interested in looking at street scenes for a while, but then run back into the house. I did get Flemish rabbits with a goal in mind of being able to leave them in the back yard sometimes on their own with the back door open. They’ll big enough that a feral cat shouldn’t bother them. I have had both of them microchipped.