This, That And The Other

[poliphilo]

My father-in-law has realised that sheltered accomodation doesn't mean nursing home and was talking about it quite reasonably yesterday. I doubt, though, whether anything will actually happen.

I don't watch many detective shows, but The Body Farm has me hooked. I love the idea of a bunch of forensic scientists living together in a run-down farmhouse with dead bodies festering all around. The autopsy room may not be next door to the kitchen but it's only just down the corridor.  They liase regularly with a policeman played by Lily Allen's dad. He too seems to be entirely lacking in a sense of smell. 

Can pet rabbits spend the winter outside? I need to know. We've never had one who lived in the garden before; he's happy there and we really don't want to move him inside unless we have to. 

Comments

[rosamicula.livejournal.com]

I had lots of friends with rabbits when I was growing up and they all lived in hutches outside all year round, but the hutches were mostly lean-to type jobs up against the house walls, so I suppose they were quite sheltered.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Our rabbit lives in a shed with a hutch in it. He doesn't use the hutch, but I suppose he might do if he was cold and wanted to huddle up in the straw. There's a hole cut in the door of the shed so can come and go as he likes.

Yeah, I think he'll be fine...

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

It's fun. Complete piffle of course, but fun.

At the moment our rabbit prefers to sleep on top of his hutch. He won't go in it; I've no idea why.

[zoe-1418.livejournal.com]

I believe they can do fine outside in the winter as long as they have some sort of shelter should they choose to use it. Does your bunny dig? Rabbits dig burrows into the ground...

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

He doesn't dig, but he has a shed he sleeps in- and the shed contains a hutch, though he prefers to sleep on top of it rather than inside it.

[setsumev.livejournal.com]

Отлично!

[lblanchard.livejournal.com]

We had rabbits in a hutch in Pennsylvania, which has winters comparable to or more harsh than yours, I think. Within the hutch we had nesting boxes not much larger than their bodies. They did fine.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Excellent. I think your winters are harder than ours. If your rabbits were fine, I believe ours will be.

[daisytells.livejournal.com]

I'm glad that your F-I-L understands the difference in accomodations for elders. Perhaps he will now come around to making a decision for himself. It's always better for us to make our own decisions (speaking as an elder myself).
I dont know about pet rabbits, but my friend's father raised rabbits years ago for food. Their rabbits lived in an unheated rabbit house, generate their own heat with their bodies I guess. Their major problem was rats that would get into the hut and kill baby rabbits.
That sounds like SOME weird show!

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

My in-laws live on the side of a hill, too far from the shops for them to get there without a car, in a bungalow that is only partially adapted to my father-in-law's increasing disability. It would make sense for them to move.

Everyone is telling me the rabbit will be fine, so I'm going to stop worrying.