Rabbit Harness and Lead

Putting your pet bunny in a rabbit harness and lead is just the same as taking a dog for a walk. Rabbits, just like other household pets such as a cat or dog can be trained and taken out for walkies on a leash. Not everyone has the luxury of a large garden or safe place to allow their rabbit to run around. The next best thing is to exercise them on a lead using a rabbit harness.

Rabbits are highly intelligent animals and as such are curious about everything and love exploring. Walking your pet on a leash will give them stimulation and play as well as great exercise, very important aspects to keep your pets fit and healthy.

There are a number of rabbit harness and lead systems available but they all do basically the same thing. A harness is much more suitable than say a cat collar would be. These arrangements fit either like a waistcoat on the rabbits body or the other kind slip onto the body very similar to fitting reins on a horse or the kind of reins you can get to fit onto a human toddler when they are first learning to walk.

The variety of materials used for these types of  rabbit harness are usually leather or nylon or a combination of a leather leash and nylon or other man-made material for the coat.

A comfortable but not too tight nor too loose fit is important because you do not want to make your pet uncomfortable in the harness and of course you have to ensure it doesn’t allow your pet to wriggle out of it and run off. The ‘strap’ type rabbit harness in often the best choice purely because of the adjustability of the various straps to create a better and more secure fit to the rabbit’s body.

Here are a number of varieties of Rabbit Harness you can buy for your pet: