Bunny in the same room as snakes?

Does anyone also have a pet bunny?

I might be getting a mini rex bunny as a free roam house pet, assuming the scent all over the house doesn't mess with my snakes. Since my snakes are on rats right now, I was wondering whether a bunny would smell similar to or would seem like food to the snakes, even remotely. Her cage and play area would be in the same room as the snakes. Since she's free-roam, her scent would be all over the carpet, would the snakes go into hunt mode when they go on the carpet too? Or generally, what kind of problems or reactions would it cause in the snakes?

I don't see why not. My son has pet rats and likes to roam all over the house with them (my snake rack is in our unused dining room). I have also heard of people keeping their rat racks in the same room with their snakes and have had no other issues. Maybe others have had problems but i can think of none personally. :gj:

My boas react to my ferrets, my ball pythons don't seem to notice them. But only when the boas actually see them (if I walk past that cage with them). I doubt there will be an issue, but as always, your mileage will vary.

i got a lop ear bunny but it is in a complete different house then my snakes, anyway prepare for lots of poop, the only thing mine does it poop

Granted, cats are not rodents or even related to rodents, but when I was growing up we had too cats in addition to my two snakes (BP and corn). I would sometimes sit around watching TV or whatever with two shakes around my neck and a cat on my lap,and none of the critters seemed to notice or care.

Thanks guys! I'm relieved. Okay, I'll continue on my bunny searching path.

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Originally Posted by alphahippo

i got a lop ear bunny but it is in a complete different house then my snakes, anyway prepare for lots of poop, the only thing mine does it poop

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LOL Oh yeah, bunnies practically poop all day. It's so wild. My past bunny (a dwarf mix) was easily litterbox trained, so the poops weren't a big issue though! Sometimes I'd still find some stray marbles. :rolleyes:

I'd say this classifies as close to some of the snakes. Contrary to popular belief, rabbits are not rodents and I've never noticed any difference having them close to each other. Granted I also don't have a giant Burm or retic around. And yes, so much poop! I always say they must turn each food pellet into 2-3 poo balls. It's been 3 days since I cleaned his cage and it looks so bad on the blue bedding my son wanted. Never again!
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Yeah IMO they are worse than rats with the poop. We had a bunny given to us and he was a poop machine!! He was also really smart lol. In a previous home we rented we had white carpet. We woke up one morning and found these brown beads all over the living room and the rabbit in his cage but the cage was a little off center from the bottom tray. We thought someone bumped it the night before and he was able to get out. The next day same thing lol. I fixed the cage and sat in the living room. I then started hearing a knocking sound and i look over at him. He is literally lifting the cage by his teeth and scooting off of the plastic base. Lol it was so funny! :8:

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Originally Posted by HannahLou

I'd say this classifies as close to some of the snakes. Contrary to popular belief, rabbits are not rodents and I've never noticed any difference having them close to each other. Granted I also don't have a giant Burm or retic around. And yes, so much poop! I always say they must turn each food pellet into 2-3 poo balls. It's been 3 days since I cleaned his cage and it looks so bad on the blue bedding my son wanted. Never again!

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LOOL I never thought of it that way, but it's so true. Weird rabbits. As long as they can keep it in their litter tray in a short time of litterbox training and not all over the floor, I'm good with throwing out the poo! I think daily poo-throwing is necessary with rabbits. They really are poo and stink machines. Especially males.

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Yeah IMO they are worse than rats with the poop. We had a bunny given to us and he was a poop machine!! He was also really smart lol. In a previous home we rented we had white carpet. We woke up one morning and found these brown beads all over the living room and the rabbit in his cage but the cage was a little off center from the bottom tray. We thought someone bumped it the night before and he was able to get out. The next day same thing lol. I fixed the cage and sat in the living room. I then started hearing a knocking sound and i look over at him. He is literally lifting the cage by his teeth and scooting off of the plastic base. Lol it was so funny! :8:

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Omg... what a smart bunnie! What breed of bunny?

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Originally Posted by redshepherd

Omg... what a smart bunnie! What breed of bunny?

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Lol never knew. Just a regular old rabbit i guess :confusd:. Came to us as Peter Rabbit but my son called him Magic because he was a white rabbit like magicians use. I guess he sort of was a bit like Houdini :D

Good luck with the bunny! I don't think it will be a problem. I keep the mice in the same room with my snakes, and nobody notices except the dogs. Love house bunnies - yeah, they are classified as lagomorphs, but I've never bothered to learn what the actual distinction is.

My last house bunny was something of a "magic" bunny too. Long story.
Rest in peace, Ifshin.

Given the way all mine ( Burm , King snakes , Royals , Boas , Corns , Ratsnakes and Garters etc ) get ' restless ' when there's the smell of defrosted rodents in the air - I presumed keeping LIVE ones in the same room would be a No - No ..

I have a hamster, a rabbit, and formerly (:() a ferret in the same room as my snakes, lol. It's a big room ;). They still get excited when I warm a mouse/rat, and nobody seems bothered by the proximity. Of course I imagine it would be a sad ending if the hamster and snakes ever got loose at the same time (well, the cats and dogs would end things first), but I'm not worried about the rabbit. . .she's 6 pounds and kinda mean.

I suspect that after awhile, smells that are just sort of always there in the background get tuned out and ignored. That seems to be basically necessary for everyone at some point, animals as well as humans, because we can't just be constantly on high alert all the time on account of information whose relevance doesn't pan out. The snakes might react at first, but after awhile the smell of the rabbit will just be the normal background of the room they live in. They'll have no problem picking out the smell of a feeder you serve them.

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Originally Posted by Coluber42

I suspect that after awhile, smells that are just sort of always there in the background get tuned out and ignored. That seems to be basically necessary for everyone at some point, animals as well as humans, because we can't just be constantly on high alert all the time on account of information whose relevance doesn't pan out. The snakes might react at first, but after awhile the smell of the rabbit will just be the normal background of the room they live in. They'll have no problem picking out the smell of a feeder you serve them.

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Yeah , that makes sense I guess.

My rodents (mice and rats) never seem nervous when I have to move them into the snake room because of a power outage or something. That's the only room I heat when my power goes out, so everyone has to go in there for awhile. The snakes that eat f/t don't seem to notice or care that the rodents are in there, but my BP eats live and she will go into feeding mode.
But that's probably because it's the exact same scenario as when she gets fed. I doubt it'd have the same effect on one that doesn't eat live.

I used to have 2 female rats as pets. I also had 2 snakes, at the time. They were in the same room together. But, they were at opposite ends, if that makes a difference. I handled my rats everyday, after taking a shower, I would handle my snakes. They were still tame as could be. The only time they reacted was during feeding time. I noticed that they had a faster response. Nothing really bad to notice.

When I first started I kept rats in the same room as snakes for about a year, once I moved the rats out I kept a bunny in the same room as my snakes....for the past 6 years it's been snakes only in the room however I never had any issue during the years fury animals and snakes were housed together.

The important thing if you keep small fury animals and snakes together in the same room is not to have them out at the same time, wash your hands between handling and make sure that all enclosures are secure and no one can escape.

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Little late, but for what it's worth I have snakes and a hamster and guinea pigs all in the same room and I don't think they've even noticed each other.

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I guess it depends on the type of snake, a buddy of mine started keeping his rat colony in his snake room, the BPs were fine but the Brazilian Rainbow boa was in constant feeding mode. He took the rats out of the snake room after repeatedly getting tagged by a big female boa after that all went back to normal. In my experience BPs , I have my collection in my animal room with a Senegal parrot, two gerbils, and a small ASF colony for my picky female and I haven't noticed a change. The only snake that goes crazy is my GTG but that lunatic is ready to kill all day everyday.