If you are considering taking in rabbits as pets, and you happen to live in a house with an outdoors compound, then you would probably be looking to get outdoor cages for them. This is because by their very nature, rabbits are the types of pets that seem to thrive best in outdoors settings (though they can also somehow do well indoors, if you to lack an outdoors space).
Outdoor rabbit cages, also called hutches traditionally, differ from indoor rabbit cages in a number of ways.
For one, outdoor cages tend to be much more spacious than indoor cages: since the indoor’s variety are subject to the space constraints that the indoors setting comes with. Of course, you can opt to have your outdoors cages made smaller, just as another person with a big house can opt to have their indoors rabbit cage made bigger. But the typical case is that the outdoors rabbit-cages tend to be more spacious than the indoors variety. And the spaciousness of the outdoors cages turns out to be a great attraction in them, seeing that the rabbit is one pet that really loves its play, so that by getting your rabbit a more spacious cage, you would know that you are doing your pet a great favor.
Wood is a very commonly used material in the building of outdoors cages – so that most of their structural bits are made from wood, alongside woven wire of course. This is unlike the case with indoors rabbit cages, which tend to be based on metallic ‘basin’ structures at their bases, with the upper parts of them being filled in with the woven wire. In other words, wood ends up taking the place of metal, as the material most extensively employed in the building of outdoors rabbit cage.