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Rh easier to take care of, as the attendant does not have to stoop so far to get into the interior of the hutch and the measure of additional protection afforded will certainly pay for the extra expense.

There is nothing that can offer the discouragement that a raid from some neighbor's dogs can. In my own case I have had as many as twenty-five fine, husky, pedigreed and registered rabbits in the back yard, all worth at least $10 each, many of which I had refused to sell at any price, destroyed in one raid in just one evening's absence from home. The dogs never eat the bunnies—just seem to hunt them for the sport (?) there is in it. But Experience keeps a dear school, and I soon learned to stop this nuisance by building the hutches right and by taking other precautions which will be mentioned later in this book.

Build your hutches of good lumber. This does not necessarily mean that it must be the most expensive lumber that you can find. It may be second-hand lumber. The point is that