Mammals Rabbits and Hares 
ors, often black. The hind feet, and the front feet 
and legs, the neck and jaws are white. 
The Silver-gray breed has fur which is very thick 
and soft, and the color of chinchilla. The Silver- 
fawn and the Silver-brown are similar. 
The Flemish Giant has iron grey fur above and is 
white beneath. 
The Japanese rabbits have orange fur, and are 
banded with black on the hind quarters. 
The Polish rabbits are albino, with pink eyes. 
HOUSE 
Pet rabbits are usually kept in boxes or hutches. 
These should be built in a way to protect the animal 
from the rain and cold, and at the same time to ad- 
mit fresh air and to be easily cleaned. For an ordi- 
nary sized rabbit, the hutch could be at least a yard 
long, and eighteen inches wide and high. The ends 
must be draft-proof, and the roof water-tight, and 
the hutch floor should be raised above the ground. 
If the rabbits are not allowed their liberty, the hutch 
may be surrounded by a yard covered with wire 
netting. 
There should be a sleeping apartment partitioned 
off from one end of the hutch. The hutch should be 
bedded down with sawdust, and on top of this, in 
the sleeping apartment, there should be plenty of 
clean, fresh straw or hay. The sawdust in the out- 
side room will need to be renewed daily, but not so 
often in the sleeping room. 
It is best, if possible, to allow the rabbits out-door 
runs. These may be made of wire netting, but it 
must be remembered that the rabbits are burrowers, 
and so the netting should be set down into the ground 
for a distance. If the run is small it should be roof- 
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