I have an indoor rabbit and would like to introduce a kitten or two?

[liamjlewis]

would this be safe and possible in the long run?

 

[Veronica Alicia]

Yes - we have kept indoor bunnies and cats plus a dog together in the same house.
You do need to protect your kittens though - a bunny, especially a big male, will attack a cat and injure or even kill it. One of our outdoor angoras once broke a leg of a nosey neighbour's cat.

 

[Daisy's sis]

as long as the kitten isn't TOO playful and it is laid back you could try supervising them together for a while and see how it goes.

 

[SlsB]

I don't know what would happen if they knew each other for a long time but I had a cat that used to hunt and kill rabbits (wild, not tame), adult cats can kill adult rabbits.

 

[Fontofall]

I don't think it would be a problem. If the cat is introduced as a kitten and grows up with the rabbit they will probably get on well together, just like dogs and cats that grow up together. I had a big white rabbit and my cat used to play stalk it. Believe me the rabbit could hold its own and knock the cat across the room with kicks from it's back legs. They used to play for ages together.

 

[kori p]

it depends on the cat, most if introduced as kittens are fine with them. we have 8 cats and a rabbit and our cats are fine with her. i worry about my gsd more than the cats. my pit bull as odd as it seems i never worried about with our small animals because she loved them , we have pics of her with kittens, baby rabbits and baby chinchilla's. its all in the temperament of the animal,. one of my cats is a hunter, a matter of fact we saw him kill a huge rat in the yard yesterday but he ignores our rabbit and hamsters. i think my crazy cats think if its inside its ok, outside fair game. which means even with 8 cats we have a field mouse problem we had a cat named buffy when i was 18, my hubby nicknamed him buffy the hamster slayer cause he kept killing my hamsters, i finally got rid of him gave him to my brother.