When my oldest daughter was around ten years old she won two baby rabbits at the county fair, and insisted she bring the little rabbits home. She promised to feed and take care of the little bunny's so we gave in. I built two adjoining rabbit hutches with insulated plywood "homes" at one end, installed swinging doors and 5 foot "runways: for the little bunnie's. All went well for the first couple of weeks and then she lost interest in the rabbits. Who could have guessed that? I ended up at the rabbit hutches each morning and evening to see that they had water and fresh food. after about a year she agreed we should take the rabbit hutches and fully grown rabbits to a petting zoo. This we did, and that was the end of my families raising rabbits in rabbit hutches. This story bring me to the rabbit hutches I found online today. The SuperPet Grassy Hutch Large sold at Top Line Pet Supply is one of several grassy rabbit hutches made from all natural grass. The perfect hide-out that provides the ideal spot for your pet to rest and nest! Each nest is made of natural plant fibers hand-woven onto a sturdy support frame. These natural plant fibers are safe for your pets to graze and chew. Located online at www.toplinepetsupply.com are many products for most any pet imaginable. From pet bird cages to dog food they have it.
rabbit hutches, pet bird cagesThe use of rabbit hutches has a very interesting history. The origin of keeping rabbits in the hutch came not long after their domestication about three thousand years ago to be a food source for the Romans. Ancient Phoenicians invading the area now known as Spain found such large numbers of these lagomorphs living on the hillsides, they christened this land 'Hispania' - which translates into the Latin word for rabbit.1 Through their conquests and seafaring, Roman domestication of these hardy mammals helped propagate the globe with descendants of the European lagomorpha.

The Kitchen Hutch
The hutch design we think of today in its traditional form, with top-opening pitched lid and wire mesh bottom on stilts, was kept in the kitchen of large estate homes and palaces so kitchen staff would have the evening meal handy for the slaughter while probably also affording service staff and their children with a temporary pet. Eventually the hutch moved outside as homes got smaller during the rise of the Middle Class in the Victorian era. The idea of keeping rabbits as house pets probably began in this age as the fad of keeping pets in general became popular and possible for more people. No longer suffering from such vast social class division as they had in the age of aristocracies before the French revolution, Western society became more affluent and so did the rabbit's disposition amongst us. Around the beginning of the 20th century, we have evidence of the first house kept rabbit as pets in the West.