It's easy to build a rabbit condo

According to the House Rabbit Society, if you're keeping a rabbit indoors in a cage, this rabbit shelter needs to meet several requirements:

• Enough space so the rabbit can stretch out in any direction
• A shelf to allow vertical jumps up and down
• Room to provide hay, water, food, and toys
• Security

In addition to these, I'd like to offer some extra suggestions, as well as talking about the benefits of building a bunny condo.

The floor should never be wire mesh. It should be covered with a soft surface that provides traction and is kind to little rabbit feet. This should also be easy to clean. Old towels or throw rugs on top of waterproof, washable vinyl floor tiles or linoleum is excellent.

Many people make a bunny condo out of modular storage cube components, such as NIC (Neat Idea Cubes) or similar 14-inch square wire panels. When I made mine, I attached them together with nylon cable fasteners, also called zip strips or zap straps.

If you make your condo 3 panels high and wide, and 2 panels deep, you can cut the base and three shelves out of one 4 x 8 sheet of plywood.

One of the big benefits of a highrise rabbit condo as compared to a conventional rabbit hutch is that much more square footage can be contained in the same amount of floor space.

You can see what all this looks like in an excellent rabbit condo video on YouTube.

There are also complete detailed instructions at the Rabbit Condo web site.