Does anyone have bunnies in an apartment?

[The Rabbit]

How do you house them, and manage it?

[LizzieKnittyBun]

We live in an apartment! Our buns are free-ranging in our living room, which is bunny-proofed, and they’re closed off from the bedroom because of Stan’s allergies.

Works great, but we have lost some of the carpeting, lol

[Monkeybun]

I do! All 3 of mine are in separate pens right now. 2 int he dining room, 1 in the living room. They take up alot of room, but they are worth it

[mrmac]

I currently have two pairs that are in an apartment. They are both housed in xpen setups, one taking up the dining room, the other in our living room.

[bunnymum16]

i have both my bunnies in a condo connected to a pen.theyre only allowed in my room.they get out time like 4 hours a day.they pretty much stay in their condo most of the time.

[LoveChaCha]

Yep.
Well, WILL be apartment SOON.

I live in a house. Bunny gets the bottom floor, which is the living room. She is currently in an x-pen. She used to have the kennel and x-pen, but we are almost done selling the house. Bunny free roams when I am at home – usually 2-3 hours on days I have to work, and longer on my days off.

I’ll be living in an apartment next month. There is a sunroom that I plan to put my bunny. I know she’ll be happy there. She will get to free roam the living/dining area, but I am going to limit her free roaming at first to see how she reacts to her surroundings.

[RabbitPam]

I do.
I’ve always used a large cage, until this year when I constructed a movable tile floor to go under a movable x-pen, but the footprint is basically the same.
I like to put it where the bunny can see the door when I enter, in a room where I will spend the most time at home. It’s set back against a wall, often a corner wall, for a feeling of safety.
In former, smaller apartments that was in the livingroom and now it’s in an open 2nd bedroom that I use for her, the TV and the computer table. I close my main bedroom door so she only goes in there when I let her. She is out most of the time I am home, and runs around the living room and “her” bedroom, in and out of her cage by choice. If I’m in the living room, she’s in there with me…sometimes. And vice versa. She basically chooses where she wants to be among the bunny-proofed spaces. I close her pen for the night after she clearly is ready for bed. (Me too.)

[Elrohwen]

We technically have an apartment, because we’re renting, though it’s a townhouse with two floors. The rabbits’ pen takes up about half the dining room on the main level, and while we’re home they’re allowed free range of that floor. They don’t really go in the kitchen (Otto hates the floors, Hannah’s afraid of the noise that comes from the kitchen), so it’s mostly the dining room and living room. Neither have discovered the stairs, somehow. I’m waiting for the day that Hannah realizes there are carpeted stairs leading to another level – we’ll be in trouble!

I’m excited to have a house so they can have a room more to themselves, and I can have a my dining room back!

[Chazz]

And I also have a bunny in an apartment. And a very small one! (Grad student) But we make it work. Larry has an x-pen in the bedroom and he’s allowed out in the mornings and evenings. Also have a cat and a turtle….oh and some fish. But it manages to stay clean and tidy with minimal damage, as long as I am observant.

[Alina]

I have my bun in my apartment with me. I built him a 3 story NIC condo that sit in the kitchen. He’s staying there til he’s litter trained, and then he’ll have run of the living room. I close the doors to the bathroom and both bedrooms so he stays just in the living room and kitchen area

[Lis]

Zelda lives in HJ’s apartment. She simply has run of his room, and gets locked in his bathroom at night so she doesn’t hop up on his bed while he’s sleeping.

[bunnnnnnie!]

Yup, Zeus and me live in a small studio apartment together.  He probably takes up 1/10th of my entire living space with his cage and run, haha!  But I don’t mind.  

[Newsy107]

I live in an apartment, and I keep my bunny’s cage in the bathroom (tile) and I’ve blocked off a bit of the hallway and half of my room so that I can open the cage door, and she can come out and run around when I’m home.

[RabbitPam]

Clearly all these apartment bunny dwellers need to start working and paying their share of the rent!

[Kokaneeandkahlua]

I did for the first few years actually. I had a few different set ups, mostly condo with free range.
I didn’t really manage any differently then I do in a house except I was more worried about damage, so I kept a close watch for any carpet chewing. If they favored nibbling carpet in an area, I would put some toys and a phone book there so they’d choose that instead. But otherwise it’s fairly the same Oh -besides hiding them when the landlord is doing walk throughs

[MayaConsuelo]

Bun-Bun lives in a large apartment with me, but mostly stays in his glamorous tri-level bunny condo. When I’m home and he’s not misbehaving he can run around in the kitchen and both living rooms (kind of a semi-divided large living room.) One thing I noticed is that since I have hardwood floors he can’t run and binky like he wants to, so I’m thinking of getting an area carpet for one room. I hate carpeting (hardwood floors are better for allergies) but I figure if I get an area carpet with very short fibers and keep it clean, it should be fine. People have mentioned bunnies eating carpeting and fabric, but I’ve seen him try to chew on stuff and he can’t bite through it… maybe because he’s a mini breed?

Bun-Bun has to stay in his condo when I’m not home and when he decides to start peeing everywhere. A lot of the time when I’m home and I have his condo door open, he still plays around inside and lounges in there, so I know he’s not too confined, he really likes it there!

[LizzyBunn]

I have two bunns and we live in a 365sq foot studio with two cats and a boy. When I first got them they spent nights in my large bathroom and certain times in their cage under a little table. They are free range now though and pretty much own the place. They used to pee on my bed but got over that. Sometimes they hop on my head while I’m sleeping but are otherwise very happy living in the apartment. I think the animals like having one big room knowing where everyone is. I do plan to move to a one bedroom in a couple months and am secretly thrilled to make the bedroom a no bunn zone. I think with organization your bunns can live with you anywhere.

[Dreya T]

We live in a flat/apartment and weren’t expecting to have to split our bunnies up but it’s more or less worked – Major has the living room when he’s out, and we shut him an a hexagonal outdoor run at night, and Frankie has a huge dog cage in the spare room with space to run around the room and hallway.

We bought a box of what I now understand are NICs, and they’ve been SO useful in bunny proofing – we have one set blocking off the TV and cables, lines of panels blocking access to the kitchen and our computers, and panels here and there against walls that Frankie likes to chew.

As long as you give them plenty of time to run around, living in a reasonably small space isn’t so bad. I think I’d love a garden they can run around in though.

[Helenor]

I live in an apartment in the living room. Lago has her area within the x-pen and she also has a computer chair mat under her area for easy cleaning. She doesn’t slip on the mat or anything, from what I’ve seen. I also let her out during the day and NICs to block off areas with lots of electrical cords. I found out that the apartment management doesn’t mind “caged pets”, but I do have to be careful that she doesn’t damage anything.

[The Rabbit]

I’m glad to see it’s worked for so many people! I’m hoping to move to an apartment in the next couple of years.

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