Setting up the bunny's new home

We used a gym mat as a cushiony soft base, and the organization cubes to make the actual siding of the home.

** Important note: We found out that Totoro could actually squeeze through the larger holes of the organization cube and escape, so it was best to construct the entire house using cubes with small holes (around 1.5 inches x 1.5 inches square openings). 

We bought some linoleum (white flooring you usually put in kitchens) to cut and put on top of the gym mats, from Home Depot. It was not that expensive, around $10 max I think.

Inside Totoro's "rabbit condominium"...

• We bought the small pet carrier (striped) from Pet Smart for around $20. 
• We bought the towels from Target, 100% cotton I believe, this is the safest. 
• We bought the brown "rustic cabin" that's edible and made from Willow sticks, from PetSmart for $15 or so. 
• We bought the Dino (children's toy) from Target since it resembles a bunny and is the same size (Totoro actually grooms/licks Dino as if he was a real rabbit!) ;)
• We bought a common pet water dispenser to hang on the outside of his cage. 
• We bought a ceramic food bowl heavy enough so that he wouldn't flip it over, to fill with his pellets.
•  We bought the orange box to use as his litter box was actually a plastic paint tray bought from Home Depot, and the bedding is rabbit-safe paper shavings. 
• ** Important Note: NEVER get cedar or pine shavings, or clay cat litter to use as rabbit litter!! This is very unsafe for them. 

Totoro emerging from his carrier to explore.

Totoro immediately goes to the Timothy Hay pile to check it out and eat!

Totoro eating some lettuce. 

** Important Note: It's best to wash the lettuce to get rid of residual pesticides, before giving to your bunny to eat.

Totoro really loves his rustic cabin. He settled right in. It provides comfort and is airy, roomy and breathable. Best of all, it's edible! And bunnies LOVE to chew on almost everything.

He is very relaxed.

More chewing on lettuce.

He jumped to the top floor where we keep a big pile of timothy hay for him.

He began eating here. He loves this top floor, he often comes to the top to do a "flop" (stretch himself out and lay on his side) and sleep. He has grown so much as compared to this picture, taken 3 months ago.

He is looking at the camera with a very cute expression.

Totoro is a very curious bunny.

 As you can see here, he is fitting his nose through one of the larger holes in the cubicles, which he eventually could squeeze out from. This is dangerous so we replaced these larger holes with cube sidings that had smaller holes. Usually a pack of these organizational cubes come with both sidings of large and small holes, so we bought ~3 packs of organizational cubes and just selected the small hole cubes from the large ones.

Curious bun!

He did a total flop inside his cabin, resting relaxed and happy on his side.

We take him out to play every evening. Here he is relaxing outside his "condo", doing a flop.

After he is very tired and relaxed around us, he does a big flop in his condo.

Here he is right outside his condo, doing a flop on the carpet. We bought a carpet especially for him since he chews on it. He doesn't like the hardwood floors so we don't have to set up dividers for other rooms. He mainly just stays on the carpet and does binkies (happy jumps and twists in the air) and flops on it.