There is a lot of advice about how to prepare your home and your fellow humans for a snowstorm. You can buy shelf safe foods, charge your devices, and drip your pipes to keep them from bursting.

But bunny parents have an extra set of tasks to get through.

What to Buy Before the Storm

Before the storm, you’ll want to stock up on your food supplies.

Here are some things to make sure you have on hand:

• Hay: Timothy hay is the usual choice. Though if you have a hay allergy, you might get an orchard or grass hay. Young rabbits may still need alfalfa hay.
• Water: This is especially important if you have well water that you’ll be unable to access if the power goes out. Make sure you stock up on bottled water.
• Vegetables: In an emergency, your rabbit can survive a few days without veggies, but if you can, load up on romaine lettuce and any other greens your rabbit enjoys.

Rabbit pellets and treats aren’t necessarily needed in an emergency, but if you have time, you can stock up on those as well!

Check List of Tasks to Do Before The Storm

Before the storm hits, you’ll also want to make sure to get a few tasks done, aside from shopping! It’s annoying to have to do some of these things when you’re freezing, just trying to get through the day.

• Change the litter box: Whether that’s dumping the box’s contents into the woods out back or throwing it in the trash outside your apartment, you do not want to have to do this during a storm! Or be stuck with it inside the house with you…
• Give your rabbit’s space a refresher: Pick up the poop your rabbit has kicked out of the litter box. Collect all the old, chewed up toys they no longer use. Vacuum or rake out the hay and hair in the flooring. Having a fresh start before the storm will hopefully cut down on the work you have to do during it. Here’s my step-by-step cleaning routine (minus cleaning out the litter box).
• Get your pet carrier ready: Make sure your pet carrier isn’t broken. Throw in a clean towel, so there’s traction at the bottom. If you have to evacuate your home for some reason, your rabbit will be ready to go with you. Make sure the carrier is plastic, so it will be harder for your rabbit to chew on if they have to stay inside it for a while.
• Set up a bunny go-bag: If you have to evacuate, you’ll want to have everything ready. In a small backpack, you can pack a water dish, a ziplock bag of hay, maybe some veggies. It won’t be perfect, but it will hopefully be enough to carry your rabbit over until you can come back home or get more supplies.
• Move your rabbit to the designated “warm room”: In a lot of human prep advice, people suggest picking a room in your house for everyone to stay in. It should be central in the home and have very few windows. You can hang blankets for insulation and stuff fabric at the bottom of doors. As an added safety measure, you can move your bunny’s set-up into this same warm room.

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