Think Outside The Hutch

21/07/2025

Rabbits need company, plenty of space, enrichment and a correct diet to be happy 🐰🐰

27/10/2024

If you want rabbits who run to you, as opposed to away from you, try only picking them up when it is absolutely necessary.
If you spend time with them sat on the ground, legs flat, and food on your lap you can encourage them onto your lap for their favourite treats.
When rabbits associate your hands with only being stroked and not with being picked up they will start to trust hands again.
When a rabbit is lifted off the ground it triggers their fight or flight response ~ in the wild being lifted off the ground means they have become someone’s dinner.

26/09/2024

Years ago I designed and delivered a Rabbit Care & Behaviour course for the staff at the Blue Cross animal charity, when working there as assistant animal behaviourist, I promised myself (and the rabbits) that I would write a book to help liberate rabbits from hutches and for them to be better understood.
Here is that book (currently cheaper here than on Amazon).
I ran a rabbit rescue during the time of writing it and many of those rabbits are the stars in the book, they all went off to amazing homes who were willing to THINK OUTSIDE THE HUTCH! 💚🐇🐇

Buy Think Outside the Hutch by Rebecca Bee from Waterstones today! Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £25.

27/08/2024

Please share far and wide to help liberate rabbits from hutches. A hutch can be a bedroom, but should never be a home 💚🐇🐇💚

Buy Think Outside the Hutch by Rebecca Bee from Waterstones today! Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £25.

08/12/2023

Think sheds not hutches.
Think chicken run not rabbit run.
Think secure garden where possible.

08/12/2023

Please sign and share 🙏🏻

Prohibit the Sale of Inadequate Sized Cages for Rabbits

07/08/2023

Happy garden bunnies! Secure gardens are so great for rabbits. You get to see so much more of their personalities.
And when you don’t handle them unnecessarily they come running like a dog would.
These two run into their night time accommodation with one call (better re-call than my dog!) ❤️

12/06/2023

A secure garden is by far the best option for keeping rabbits.

When rabbits are kept in the vicinity of wild rabbits (vaccinated or not) they often meet an earlier end due to the viruses the wild rabbits carry.

A secure garden gives rabbits freedom and also allows for a great relationship. When you keep rabbits like this and don’t pick them up, they become like dogs with a great re-call!
Our rabbits can escape from the garden (if someone leaves the gate open) and come back with one call for their pellets.
There is a balance of requirements to have rabbits in this way. If they are over-fed concentrates they will not likely develop a great re-call. If they are picked up and held a lot they are even less likely to come running.

How to have friendly, confident rabbits who run to you, as opposed to away, you can check out the information in my book, THINK OUTSIDE THE HUTCH ❤️

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Think-Outside-Hutch-confident-rabbits/dp/183975219X/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?crid=1DLBEPO9BDKXN&keywords=think+outside+the+hutch&qid=1654254910&sprefix=think+outside+the+hutch%2Caps%2C126&sr=8-1&fbclid=IwAR0PexB0ADGYT3LBmwxWdibOWeeYjsKxjGsHWnBbtk3TaVm4gAKq_miDlYw_aem_th_AcUQaroK3IE7BlcQXq7Us13mOy31lI0zAM_u3ak_nXPZJz5H095KhNSxUTbC68II1gA

Think Outside the Hutch: For happy, confident rabbits the whole family can enjoy

30/01/2023

Think Outside the Hutch: For happy, confident rabbits the whole family can enjoy

17/07/2022

In preparation for tomorrow 🥵☀️

🐇 Freeze water bottles 🧊 Rabbits (small animals) will lay next to them to cool down.

🐇 Have towels ready to dampen - your rabbits can also lay on these to cool down.

🐇 Make sure you have water spray bottles - you can mist your rabbits ears to help them cool down if they have over heated.

🐇 Give them access to tiled flooring or concrete areas (as long as shaded) to cool down.

16/07/2022

Monday and Tuesday are going to be VERY hot 🥵 🐇🐇🐇🐇

Please - if you know anyone who has rabbits or guinea pigs in hutches tell them they could die in there! Hutches are like saunas in this heat.

You can freeze bottles of water 💦 🧊 and put them in your rabbits enclosures or in the their areas in the house so they can choose to lay next to them to cool down.

If their enclosure is not very shaded you can move them into the coolest room in the house temporarily.

This applies to all outdoor animals - if they don’t have shade, they need moving ☀️🌴

03/06/2022

Currently on special offer at Amazon 🐇🐇

Think Outside the Hutch: For happy, confident rabbits the whole family can enjoy