{"id":1060,"date":"2012-07-16T19:09:30","date_gmt":"2012-07-16T18:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.therabbithouse.com\/blog\/?p=1060"},"modified":"2012-07-16T19:09:30","modified_gmt":"2012-07-16T18:09:30","slug":"scamps-rabbit-warren","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.therabbithouse.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/16\/scamps-rabbit-warren\/","title":{"rendered":"Scamp’s New Rabbit Warren"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you follow Scamp’s antics, you probably know he lives in the kitchen. His private space is usually a box\/tunnel, and for the last little while it has been a round tunnel with an upturned box over the top as a look out spot. Recently though, it’s begun to have serious structural issues. The roof is getting lower, and lower and lower. After consulting a structural engineer, we determined the issue to be – ‘the little monster has eaten the floor, 90% of the sides, two corners and part of the roof’. I believe this is the official term for ‘time to get a new box’.<\/p>\n

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The old warren – slight structural issues.<\/p><\/div>\n

So we acquired a lovely new box:<\/p>\n

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The lovely new box<\/p><\/div>\n

Unfortunately, we do need to be able to walk down the kitchen, you know for important things like cooking rabbit treats<\/a> and transferring carrots from the fridge to the food bowl. So after a few days playing with the big box in the living room, we had to do a little DIY. We started by measuring the box and carefully working out a plan.<\/p>\n

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I’m trying out stripes this week!<\/p><\/div>\n

Then Scamp went to work on making additional exits…<\/p>\n

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…. whilst I attacked it with a stanley knife.<\/p>\n

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I’m saving this bit for later.<\/p><\/div>\n

The trouble with square tunnels is they have a habit of leaning, we often make our tunnels triangular by slicing one corner and overlapping two sides, but I’ve a different plan this time.<\/p>\n

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This tunnel would be perfect for a one-eared, three-legged rabbit.<\/p><\/div>\n

First I sliced the corner and refolded, to give it double thickness walls, twice the chewing potential.<\/p>\n

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Getting better!<\/p><\/div>\n

Then, using the spare bit of box from earlier, I cut two arches and posted the tunnel through the box.<\/p>\n

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A carefully positioned hole in the tunnel (which I’m sure Scamp will expand) gives him access to a nice snug hidey hole, and once the lid is closed the tunnel will help support the roof.<\/p>\n

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All done and in place<\/p><\/div>\n

Very smart looking, if I do say so myself. Of course, how long it survives is the real test. I imagine it will have a few extra exits in no time!<\/p>\n

Anyone else carefully craft warrens out of boxes?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Making Scamp a new den\/warren out of a big cardboard box.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1068,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39],"tags":[32,46],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therabbithouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therabbithouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therabbithouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therabbithouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therabbithouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1060"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.therabbithouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1076,"href":"https:\/\/www.therabbithouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060\/revisions\/1076"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therabbithouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therabbithouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therabbithouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therabbithouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}