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Just been looking to buy a new run (as all my garden stuff was stolen! :<> ) and am shocked at the sizes of some hutches! My local pet store does a 1 and a half ft by 2ft which is apparantly suitable for guinea pigs! a hamster maybe! They didnt seem vey impressed when i pointed out that it was no-where near big enough!

why isnt there some kind of law for pet minimum requirements!?!
 
OMG that is a tiny size :o It is the same here. There is a garden centre close to where I live that has a pet section. The pet section is horrible and the hutches are way to small. The hutches they seel for guinea pigs are no bigger than 3ft and the ones for rabbits are no bigger than 4ft.

When we take our cat to the cattery, there is a cottage we drive past and I have noticed they have 2 hutches in their garden. One of them is quite big which houses a rabbit but there is a hutch on the top which is tiny and I noticed a guinea pig in it. It annoys me that people asume that pigs can live in a tiny hutch :(
 
I have a tiny 3ft hutch, which i use to store things in, and as an emergency if ever i need it, but no way would i ever consider keeping anything in it! Its just sad, cos a lot of people will just presume if pet shops sell them that size that they are ok.. my friend has a french lop in a 4ft hutch and it cant even stand up! BUT>> thereis just no telling her.. she says they wouldnt sell them if not suitable! pow-pow
 
Exactly and that is the opinion that some pet owners will have :( I have a 3ft cage in my parents shed that my piggies stay in when we go and visit HOWEVER I would never have that as their proper home and they only use it to sleep in for a couple of nights.
 
despicable! :)>>>

poor little babies crammed in....... 8...8...8...

The sooner some regulations come in to protect innocent animals.......the better!
 
Hi,
I have to say i foolishly fell for that trap. I put my minilop in a 97cm hutch which is just under a metre (3.18 metres!) He couldn't stand up and he could barely do two or three hops. I was so angry and upset when I realised how small it was (I had bought it online so didn't quite get the visual. the advertising words seemed to make me think it was suitable). I solved the problem by buying an outdoor puppy play pen and placing it securely around the hutch and then creating a dog/cat proof wire top.

Timothy loves having the space and enjoys his time running freely around it. we leave the hutch door open and he can easily hop into the outdoor run part now (which is even larger because we didn't complete it into a hexagon, we used the hutch for a side)

i guess it's a lesson for us all. a lesson in making sure you know what you're buying in comparisen to the animal and how to improvise! my minilop now gets a couple of hours of free range around our enclosed, safe garden. always when there are people home of course, to supervise.
 
I think another problem is that some people do not do enough research and don't realise that rabbits and guinea pigs actually grow up from being tiny babies mallethead
 
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bekkie said:
Hi,
I have to say i foolishly fell for that trap. I put my minilop in a 97cm hutch which is just under a metre (3.18 metres!) He couldn't stand up and he could barely do two or three hops. I was so angry and upset when I realised how small it was (I had bought it online so didn't quite get the visual. the advertising words seemed to make me think it was suitable). I solved the problem by buying an outdoor puppy play pen and placing it securely around the hutch and then creating a dog/cat proof wire top.

Timothy loves having the space and enjoys his time running freely around it. we leave the hutch door open and he can easily hop into the outdoor run part now (which is even larger because we didn't complete it into a hexagon, we used the hutch for a side)

i guess it's a lesson for us all. a lesson in making sure you know what you're buying in comparisen to the animal and how to improvise! my minilop now gets a couple of hours of free range around our enclosed, safe garden. always when there are people home of course, to supervise.
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I think a lot of us are guilty of that. I must admit my last bunny was kept in a 3,5ft hutch, which at the time, I didn't realise was FAR too small. I am doing things right this time, my girls have a 6ft double hutch and shed, with a 7ft run, and I will never keep anything in that small again!
 
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