Hidey box with blankets draped over it might work!

Is it 40 in your house too? Brr… We’re here in new england but at least we have indoor heat!

Could you try leaving hot water bottles wrapped in towels? She could snuggle up to them if she wanted and it would probably last several hours.

I’ve read that 30 degrees and below are too cold for bunnies, I usually struggle with my buns room getting too hot. I wish it was 40 sometimes! lol. 50-70 F is what I’ve heard is the best for them to live at.

Buns are actually very resilient to cold, as long as the cold sets in gradually so the bun can acclimatize. Freezing degrees are ok as long as you make sur the bun gets fresh water twice a day (they can’t drink frozen water). What’s detrimental is draft and moisture. This is why outdoor hutches should be elevated off the ground and provide shelter against wind, rain and snow.

A hideybox with fleece blankies should be enough unless there’s a really bad floor draft. She can burrow in the fleece and make a nest to keep warm in, if she wants to. A hot water bottle is safer than an electric blanket, but if she’s in a cage she must have space so she can move away from the heat if she doesn’t want it. Buns are very sensitive to heat.

She’ll be growing thicker fur and keeping warm also costs energy, so a little bit of extra food is good while this cold spell is going on. You can give her some extra pellets or a teaspoon of rolled oats.

40 degrees indoors doesn’t sound nice at all, but it’s worse for you than for her, you (most likely) don’t have a double coat of isolating fur.

50 F is pretty chilly, but it’s ok for a bunny. The laundry-basket with a blanket sounds like a very nice and cosy nest for her. But your bed is probably even nicer and cosier and she’ll be fine in a bed because it’s off the floor. If you give her a blanket to burrow in on the bed she’ll want for nothing.

It really is lovely to have a snuggly bun!

Temps generally vary between the low 60’s (when I turn the A/C on to help dissipate stove heat) and just over 70 in my small efficiency this time of year. Panda and Fernando both seem to be doing fine, but I’m planning to get them a couple of fleece blankets for Christmas to make them comfier. Or, I should say, even comfier; they’ve been bunloafing, puddling (as in bunloafing so relaxedly that they look like they’re melting into a pool of fluff), lambchopping or flopping, seemingly half the time every day. I’m going to have to get them into their carrier next Saturday morning for the trip down to North Carolina for Christmas, though; it’s likely to be very cold early in the morning so I’m planning to take them out last of all after everything else is packed, and try to get the car started so that the heat is already running. Would it help to put something around the carrier while I’m carrying them out to the car to protect from the cold air?

Posted By BunNoob on 12/11/2017 12:24 PM

They share a carrier right? If that’s the case, then I would say a few towels or blankets would be plenty. They can huddle together and that should make them plenty warm in a confined space.

Funny thing, I’ve lived in this apartment for 3 years but I’ve never needed to use the heat! Silly Florida, don’t you know that you shouldn’t be this cold? I must say though, it’s quite a refreshing change from the scalding hot and nasty humid days that are typical most of the year.

Correct, they share a carrier (10-lb pet size Petmate) with a litterbox inserted, filled with litter and hay. I customarily put a quilt down on the back seat for added cushioning and then belt the carrier into the back seat.

I lived in southern Florida some 45 (!) years ago as a boy for a couple of years. I remember temps got cool enough in December and January that there actually was a dusting of snow one winter, which was pretty big news even then.

I’ve had my bun outdoors (she’s now in) but I always
used warm water bottles, and fleece blankets because
have no seems. I also used natural cotton and let her make
a bed. But it kinda depends is your bunny will chew on it,
mine didn’t

I reckon if a hooman can cope with the cold with a few blankets the buns will be fiiiine.
I’ll be carrying mine out to the car in the carriers without no extra protection… the cats too and the dog (and then me if there is room!)

Posted By Vienna Blue in France on 12/12/2017 6:45 AM

I reckon if a hooman can cope with the cold with a few blankets the buns will be fiiiine.
I’ll be carrying mine out to the car in the carriers without no extra protection… the cats too and the dog (and then me if there is room!)

I figure they should be all right too, I’m going to wait until last of all (after everything else is loaded) to take Panda and Fernando out and not dawdle about it, so they actually shouldn’t be exposed to the sharpest cold, assuming it actually is that cold that morning – the weather has been odd the last few years – for more than a minute or so.