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Rabbit Care Checklist for New Pet Rabbit Owners
With this rabbit care checklist, getting started taking care of pet rabbits will be so easy!
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Here is our checklist of all the crucial stuff you’ll need right away in order to take care of your pet rabbit.
We limited this checklist to the essentials so you won't worry that you're forgetting something. Now you can get what you need, and then get on with the fun of owning and caring for your pet rabbits.
Go to Pet Rabbit Care for more information on each of the items below.
Rabbit Care Checklist #1: A CAGE
A cage that's the right size for your new pet rabbit, and that is strong enough to protect it from predators. In the USA, we tend to use all-wire cages and provide a resting board for the rabbits’ comfort. Rabbit owners in the UK tend to like all-wood hutches.
Get some high-quality commercial rabbit pellets to start with (make sure the bag is fresher than 2.5 months old when you buy it). Feed young bunnies
All the pellets they want (free-fed)
Grass hay every day
See Feeding Rabbits and Pet Rabbit Care for lots more information on how to feed as your bunny grows up, plus adding green forages and veggies to the diet.
Rabbit Care Checklist #3: Get a feed container
A heavy crock, a crock that attaches to the wire or a J-Feeder work great. You can also fashion a feed dish out of tin cans or other materials, if you need to. Whatever you use, work out a way to secure the container to the hutch or cage so the rabbit won’t yank on it, fling feed everywhere, or simply tip it over. Less waste means less $$ spent and less frustration.
Rabbit Care Checklist #4: Water
Water is probably a rabbit's most crucial need, so give them as much fresh water as they can possibly want or consume, every day, 24/7/365. Don’t ever let the water go dry.
Rabbit Care Checklist #5: A water container
This will probably be a water crock or a valved water bottle, ideally with a top lid.
Then here's a few more points to not forget at the beginning:
Rabbit Care Checklist #6: A litter box
Rabbits can easily be litter-box trained. But your typical cat litter isn’t the best for rabbits. Better to use a high sided litter box with pine shavings--your rabbits will probably kick up their heels when leaving the litter box, and the high-sides keep the shavings from scattering from hither to yon while they hop away.
Rabbit Care Checklist #7: Watch the Electrical Cords...
Don't let your bunny chew any electrical cords! This is a critical consideration only if you plan on giving your rabbit the run of the house. Electrical cords are amazingly inviting to your wonderful bunny. And logically so...his front teeth grow and grow, and it is part of his make-up to chew stuff. You sure don't want the little guy to turn into a char-broiled shish-ka-bob, compliments of your electricity provider.
A cage that's the right size for your new pet rabbit, and that is strong enough to protect it from predators. In the USA, we tend to use all-wire cages and provide a resting board for the rabbits’ comfort. Rabbit owners in the UK tend to like all-wood hutches.
