Do you let your rabbit run free in the house?

I let mine run around when supervised. When I get an apartment, I plan to just have the one out at least. My 10 year old rabbit just doesn't go far enough for a litterbox anymore, so I can't really trust him running around the house and going back to his pen to go potty. I use a puppy pen for his housing inside, so he's still got a lot of room. The rabbit I found, Floppy, who is under 2 years old I'm guessing, I tried giving her full access to one room for awhile and she kept ending up on 3 foot high shelves! Now I put a puppy pen in that room over linoleum, and she's got 16 square feet of space in there. When I got my 10 year old rabbit, Sunny, he was about 4. When he'd roam around the house, it was so cute to watch him do what we called "bunny dances" and what some people call "binkies". Floppy prefers to be lazy and all stretched out across the floor (which is how she got her name). Sunny used to just go out onto the two rugs we had on the tile, and just dance away for like 2 minutes straight. I'm hoping to see Floppy try that sometime. :) I think rabbits have to be at least 10 times more fun to have as pets in the house. :D

We have a rabbit which is brought indoors in the winter because it is too cold for her outside, even in the shed, but after the last bad experience, when I let one of the rabbits loose to run around in the house, she bit through one of my cables to my computer, I was left without the internet for the whole weekend! I was not best pleased, even in the shed she managed to gnaw away at the cable on the lawnmower! But even so I still love her, I bring her out of her cage and put her on my knee when I'm watching tv every day, making a fuss of her, as for letting her have the run of the household, no not again!

We use to have rabbit that ran loose in our house. He would jump back into his tank ( that is what we used as his cage a fish tank.) to do his business. A few times he nibbled on electric cords. But other then that he was great to let loose in the home.

We will let ours out at times and let him run around. He loves it. He will play with the cats and the dog actually. The dog tries to get him back into the cage. She's a collie and it's her nature to herd animals but she's very gentle with him. We don't let him run around all the time but just now and then to let him get lots of excerise. He likes to get our attention while he is out to get pettings. He can be a lot like a cat at times I agree.

My parents had a very small rabbit that was more like a dog really. It had it's own litter box and would play with all four of their cats. It would even lick your face if you kneeled on the ground in front of it. Cute little fellow :)

My sister has a dutch lop and she leaves the door open on his cage so he can get out onto the floor. He is very good to use the cage for going to the bathroom. He too is playful and it's so cute to watch him play with his toys. He has a thing for chewing rugs if they are shaggy, but doesn't bother the low pile type. She brought him to visit me and it was a 10 hour road trip. He was very comfy in his cage and made the trip like a trooper.

We have a 10 week old dwarf lop named Pixie and she loves to roam around the house. She flips around doing the bunny dance that others have described and jumps up on our laps for pats all the time. I think she is more cat than rabbit. The only problem we have is that she nips our legs or clothes sometimes when on our laps. How can we stop this?

yeah..i like her to be fre..she's nice. ..

Rabbits can be like that,, usually they love to have attention. If introduced to things like a litter tray early enough they will use that without any complications! Learned though experience though put things down like carrots and things that they can knaw on as other wise a rabbit in the house can mean electric wires getting chewed through. If you provide them with something to knaw on they genereally wont go near the cables Lynn-Marie

We had a beautiful black rabbit and we let it run free in our yard. Actually in our fenced in yard at first and then out in the open later. It would usually head to the woods behind our house, but one morning we looked out and it was laying in the road and had been hit by a car. At least he had the good life for awhile.