Free-roam time is some of the best exercise and enrichment a house rabbit gets, but a living room is built for people, and almost everything at rabbit height in it was never meant to meet a rabbit. The hazards are not exotic: they are cables, woodwork, plants, furniture mechanisms, and doors — ordinary objects whose danger only becomes obvious when you get down and look at the room from twenty centimetres off the floor.
Cables: the hazard a rabbit hunts for
Rabbits chew constantly to wear their ever-growing teeth, and a cable on the floor reads to a rabbit much like a root or a twig — a natural thing to test with the teeth. A live mains cable can give a fatal shock, and even a low-voltage one can burn the mouth, so cables are the first job in any free-roam room, every time. Run them through rigid protectors or spiral wrap a rabbit cannot bite through, route them behind heavy furniture the rabbit cannot get behind, or lift the devices and their cables out of the room for the session. Phone chargers left trailing from a sofa are the classic miss: small, chewable, and exactly at rabbit height.
Woodwork, plants, and everything stored low
What a rabbit cannot be shocked by, it will still eat. Skirting boards, door frames, chair legs, and the bases of wooden furniture will be gnawed — protect valued pieces with guards or block access, and offer legal chew toys nearby so the teeth have somewhere better to go. Houseplants are a quieter danger: many common decorative plants are harmful if eaten, and a rabbit will sample a leaf before you notice it browsing, so plants in a free-roam room go up onto high shelves or out entirely. Cleaning sprays, detergents, and similar bottles stored in low cupboards or left by the sink must be behind closed, latched doors — a rabbit that cannot open a cupboard can still chew a bottle left standing in the open.
Furniture that moves and doors that swing
The injuries vets see from free-roam accidents often involve furniture that changes shape. Reclining chairs hide a scissor mechanism underneath that can crush a rabbit sheltering in the dark beneath them, and rocking chairs can come down on a rabbit resting by the runners; a rabbit under either is invisible to the person sitting down. Keep rabbits out from under recliners and rockers entirely — block the undersides or keep that furniture in a rabbit-free room. Doors are the other moving hazard: a door swung shut or blown by a draught catches a rabbit crossing the doorway, so wedging the room's door in one position for the session removes a whole class of accident. Watch your own feet as well, and shuffle rather than stride when a rabbit is loose around you.
The pre-session sweep, done every time
Rooms drift out of safety between sessions: a charger gets plugged in, a plant comes home, a bottle is left by the bucket. Treat the check as a fixed sweep, in the same order, at floor level — cables, gaps behind appliances and the television (rabbits squeeze behind warm units and chew what they find there), plants, low storage, furniture undersides, door position. Block the gaps behind appliances with panels or boxes so the sweep stays short. Once the sweep is done, the session is genuinely relaxing, for you as much as the rabbit, because watching a rabbit in a proofed room is spectating rather than guarding.
Anyone else who supervises roam time needs the sweep and the hazard list exactly as you know them, not a verbal summary from memory, and a KinsLe Care Pass hands that list to a sitter as part of your rabbit's care details — cables, plants, the recliner rule, and all — so free-roam stays safe on the days someone else is in charge.