Practical Pet Care Tips
Rabbit teeth never stop growing. A vet’s two-hour explanation, why hay does the real dental work, my daily ten-second incisor check, and the warning signs.
In just over two years, nearly every piece of my rabbit’s setup has been replaced at least once. The hay feeder lost its crown to a $15 plastic bin. The water setup went through three versions. The housing itself, four. Each of those stories has its own post on this site — this post is … Read more
Let me save you some time: I owned a rabbit harness. It was purchased with the best intentions, my Netherland Dwarf rejected it absolutely, and it went in the trash without ever being used for an actual walk. This post is about why I’ve made peace with that — and what I use instead when … Read more
My rabbit’s housing has gone through four eras: a store-bought starter cage (metal bars on a plastic base), a DIY pen built from wire grid panels, a stretch of full free roaming, and finally the setup we’ve stayed with — a DIY enclosure built from opaque square panels, two panels tall, with a partial ceiling … Read more
Here’s a detail about rabbit anatomy that took me embarrassingly long to learn: rabbits don’t have paw pads. Dogs and cats walk around on built-in cushioned soles — tough, bare, shock-absorbing pads. A rabbit’s foot has none of that. The sole is just skin covered in fur, resting directly on whatever surface you give him. … Read more
Quick note before we start: this post is about bonding with your rabbit — the human-and-rabbit kind of trust. If you searched for bonding two rabbits to each other, that’s a different (and much more delicate) process, and not what I cover here. What I can tell you about is the human side, because I’ve … Read more
Search “how to clean a rabbit cage” and you’ll find schedules that look like a part-time job: daily spot cleans, weekly deep scrubs, monthly teardowns. I’m going to offer a different data point. My Netherland Dwarf’s enclosure takes me almost no effort to clean — and that’s been true since the day he moved in. … Read more
On my rabbit’s very first day home, the pet shop sent us off with two cooling products: a thin fabric cooling mat, and a stainless steel mat wrapped in blue patterned vinyl. Summer is dangerous for rabbits, they said — and that part is absolutely true. Over two years later, here’s the scoreboard: the fabric … Read more
For about a year — from late 2024 through most of 2025 — my Netherland Dwarf was a free roam rabbit. No cage, no pen — the room was his. We didn’t start there — he outgrew a starter cage and a DIY grid pen first — but free roaming was supposed to be the … Read more
Rabbit toy lists usually read like a pet store catalog: twenty items, all “great.” Here’s my version instead. My Netherland Dwarf’s entire toy collection is exactly two items — a plush carrot that’s been in daily rotation for about a year, and a snuffle ball that joined four months ago — and one confidently-purchased toy … Read more