Multi-room housing for Giant Papillon rabbits

Most rabbit hutches sold in pet shops are far too small — rabbits need space to do at least three full hops, stand fully upright, and have separate areas for sleeping and toileting. That's even more critical when your vet has specifically flagged mental stimulation as a priority. So your Giant Papillon needs multi-room housing — great that you're taking that advice seriously. Is this setup going indoors or outdoors, and what kind of floor space are you working with?

Over-grooming from boredom is really common in large, intelligent breeds like Giant Papillons — they need variety and the ability to choose where they are at any given moment. For Biscuit at 6kg, you want something with genuinely distinct zones: a sleeping area, a feeding area, and open space to move through. What does his current setup look like, and has he used any kind of tunnel or hideaway before?

That tells you a lot — he wants to feel enclosed in a space that's his choice, not just one big open box. The product I'd point you toward is the Midwest Homes for Pets Wabbitat Deluxe Rabbit Home. It's a large modular indoor enclosure that you can expand with additional panels, so you can configure it to give Biscuit genuinely separate zones within a controlled footprint. It's tall enough for a large rabbit to stand upright, the panels clip together without tools, and you can attach a hideaway or tunnel inside it easily. For an indoor rabbit whose vet has specifically recommended mental stimulation, the ability to move between distinct areas — and to choose a semi-enclosed spot — makes a real difference. You can find it on Amazon UK under 'Midwest Wabbitat Deluxe'.

The base unit gives you a single large space, so to create proper zones you'd add a simple cardboard or wooden hideaway box inside — something with two entry points so he doesn't feel trapped. A tunnel connecting two areas of the enclosure works brilliantly for this; Rosewood do a cardboard activity tunnel that fits inside most large enclosures and costs very little. The real structural separation comes from placing the hideaway centrally so it divides the space naturally. Given that he already seeks out the space under your sofa, he'll take to an enclosed hideaway quickly. The Midwest setup gives you the perimeter; you furnish the interior to create the zones.

Good luck with Biscuit — a Giant Papillon with proper space and something to explore is a very different rabbit to one sitting in a single box. If the over-grooming doesn't improve within a few weeks of the new setup being in place, it's worth going back to the vet to rule out a skin issue alongside the boredom, but the housing change is absolutely the right first step.