Hey melaik! I’m not a complete bunny expert, but I think your bunny will be fine. When I leave my bunny for a week he seems to be perfectly healthy when I get back. I bet that as long as your cage is big enough for him to run around in he’ll be fine. Hope this helped at least a little!

That sounds like a small cage. So your rabbit really should have a lot of out of cage time for exercise. It is recommended that a cage be big enough for a rabbit to take 4 hops from one end to the other. Can the person who is coming to feed your rabbit, stay there for a little while every day and let your rabbit have some exercise? This person would need to know how to handle rabbits and be able to get him back in the cage easily.

I agree – your cage is way too small. Putting it simply, the reality is that a rabbit needs to excercise in order to keep their GI function in good order. Buns who couldn’t move around sufficiently have been known to go into stasis. Stasis kills. Fast.

My suggestion would be bunnyproofing a small room like the bathroom and leaving your bunbun in there, OR adding an x-pen type extension (attached to the door of your current cage) as a temporary run during the time you’re away. Be creative. Your little furbaby will thank you for it.

Any chance you could get him a bigger hutch before you leave then? Pet store type hutches that only allow for one hop or so are dangerously small.

If not, then at least teach your parents about GI stasis so they can monitor your bun closely while you’re away.
The animal shelter I volunteer at lost a lot of buns to this because of their being too confined over holidays, etc. It sounds like you care about your bunny, so I imagine keeping a close eye on him is something your parents can do, if only because they, in turn, care about you?

Do you not have a carrier for your rabbit? That would be more secure than a box. The top loading carriers are especially good for rabbits, but any carrier could be used for your brother to transport your bunny back and forth. That would be safer than if he tries to pick up your bunny, since they can be easily injured if they struggle.

It really would be nice if he had a larger cage or if you got a regular x-pen for him.

Hi Melaik!

I did this once. When I have to be away for holidays I take my Chito to a boarding place, but due to space reasons he’s not able to get his daily exercise. I feel really bad about leaving him for long, but there’s nothing else I can do That being said, when I get him home, his tummy would usually be a little sad, so I have to proceed with a hay-intense diet for a week or so before reverting back to also giving him a bit of pellets and veggies so his tum would return to normal first. I suggest giving your bun some Bene-bac before you go just in case the lack of exercise or incorrect diet (if he has a lot of treats bc everybody is a sucker to those big, begging eyes) stresses him out, then a ‘detox’ when you’re back home.

As for the method of getting him in and out of the bathroom, I agree a carrier would be best. But if you don’t have one, a box would do until you have one The main thing is for your brother to not stress him out while loading/unloading him in and out, bc Chito gets upset about that :”)

Good luck!!