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Rabbit

Q: Why is a rabbit like a cent?
The answer is on the bottom of the page, and it has to do with money.

     It is OK to keep rabbits in a cage with a wire floor. Rabbits were not designed to live on wire floors--they're hard on their feet (which have no pads on the, like cats or dogs). If you must use a cage with a wire floor, you need to provide your rabbit with a resting board or rug for her to sit on, otherwise she will spend all of her time in her litterbox.

The first thing to remember is that rabbits have a much different digestive system than humans and other pets such as cats and dogs. In fact, their digestive system and the way rabbits select, eat and digest their food in nature is much like the way horses go about this. Rabbits and horses are herbivores (vegetarians), they graze grassland and digest the organic plant matter with the aid of colonies of beneficial bacteria that live in their digestive tract. These bacteria are very important to both rabbits and horses and we have to be very careful not to destroy these colonies by inappropriate feeding. For example, if we feed the rabbit food that is rich in carbohydrates (sweet treats), the bacteria that help the rabbit to digest food may be killed thereby making room for the development of bad bacteria that will make the animal very sick.

You can find cages with slatted plastic floors, which are more comfortable, or you can use a solid floor. As long as your rabbit has a litterbox in the corner that he chooses as his bathroom, there shouldn't be much of a mess to clean up. A: Because it has a head on one end and a tail on the other.