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Davidc

Davidc

Guru
Location
Somerset UK
Try not to hit them on a bike. My experience, twice, has been that it knocks you off the bike and leaves your front wheel bent. Oh and the bl***y rabbit hops off aparrently uninjured. They just appear in the road from the hedgerows with no warning.

Wouldn't have minded so much if they'd shown some remorse - by waiting around to go into a rabbit pie!
 
snapper_37

snapper_37

Barbara Woodhouse's Love Child
Location
Wolves
No no no. Get a dog and then you have all the fun of picking up, coping with the mad runarounds, oh and not forgetting the rolling in fox shoot. Which is what she has just done. :angry:

It's taken half an hour just to get the crap off her back.

Pet's are great!
 
cookiemonster

cookiemonster

Squire
Location
Hong Kong
I had a couple of rabbits when I lived in London.

Get 2 as rabbits are social animals, 2 females are best

Wooden floors cause trouble with rabbits as the cannot grip the floor and their feet go everywhere. Looks funny but causes damage to their legs

When you feed them salad/carrot, wash it first but then leave it until it warms to room temp as cold and wet carrots/ salad will chill their stomach and give them the runs. Runny bunny poo is not fun when clearing it up.

In hot weather, change the hutch regularly as the smell will attract blowflies which will cause a huge health problems with rabbits (blowfly strikes)

Make sure all electrical cables are well hidden from view as they will be chewed.

If you get a lop rabbit, with floppy ears, make sure that their ears are cleaned as the dust from a carpet will get in and cause infection.

Finally, RABBITS ARE SO COOL!!!!!:becool:

http://www.videobash...ly-rabbits-9346



PS - I've just noticed that Buggi has covered everything else. I hope I haven't cross posted.
 
badkitty

badkitty

A Fiddler of ill repute
Location
where the cat keeps the things he dragged in...
As Cookie said - don't get one rabbit, get two. Ideally one neutered male and one spayed female, preferably from a rescue.I thought my rabbit was happy when we only had him, then we got him bonded to a rescue female, and saw just how happy a bunny can get! I'm not renowned for being soft, but when you see a bonded pair of bunnies licking ear others ears and snuggling up together, it's pretty hard not to go a bit mushy.

Not sure if this has been mentioned, apologies if it has, but if they're out in a run it must be high enough that they can stand up on their back legs. I think mines almost 3 ft high. It lets them jump nice and high too so they get more exercise.

Oh, and pellets were invented by the rabbit breeders after the war for fattening up farmed rabbits for eating. As I'm not going to eat mine, I don't feed them any pellets at all - just high quality timothy hay, readigrass, and fresh veggies. If they eat too many pellets, as well as getting fat, they wont bother with hay and their teeth wont get worn down properly which is deeply unpleasant for the buns and very expensive for you to sort.

Best of luck - hopefully your rabbits will thrive and live out the full lifespan of 10 years.
 
buggi

buggi

Bird Saviour
Location
Solihull
cookiemonster said:
In hot weather, change the hutch regularly as the smell will attract blowflies which will cause a huge health problems with rabbits (blowfly strikes)
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when cookiemonster says "change the hutch" i think she he (sorry Cookie!) means clean it LMAO... otherwise could get a tad expensive LOL

my mum had a mate who looked after the school rabbit during the holidays. her dad was a drunk.

she came home to a pie one day. Half way throught eating she asked "this is nice, what's in it?"

"Rabbit"

a few seconds passed by

.... then the penny dropped. try explaining that one!
 
Arch

Arch

Married to Night Train
Location
Salford, UK
I like guinea pigs. We had one who was really clever, learned our routines and listened out for dad coming home from the shops and whistled for him, and used to run laps of the bedroom for fun.

She lived a fairly long time, 5 or 6 years, and when she died, we replaced her with a Peruvian, with long hair and fewer braincells than toes. She used to sit in her food bowl, and wonder where her dinner was.
 
Fnaar

Fnaar

Smutmaster General
Location
Thumberland
Arch said:
and when she died, we replaced her with a Peruvian, with long hair and fewer braincells than toes. She used to sit in her food bowl, and wonder where her dinner was.
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What, like a Peruvian peasant, you mean? Aren't there laws about having humans as pets?
 
asterix

asterix

Comrade Member
Location
Limoges or York
In Collioure, a busy seaside resort, I saw someone taking a large rabbit for a walk in the crowded town centre. It was on a lead and looked quite at home.
 
MacB

MacB

Lover of things that come in 3's
Location
Farnborough, Hampshire
good stuff from Buggi there, I'm far from an expert but we have a house rabbit, he began with a hutch in the garden and then we found this website:-

http://www.michiganrabbitrescue.org/condo.htm

so we built a Bunny Condo - very easy just bought 26 panels, a big pack of cable ties and I had bits already to make rod supports and a shelf.

We no longer have the outdoor hutch and have rabbit proofed(kind of) the garden, in the better weather he has the run of the garden and dining room(he's outside right now, I'd have needed to build a huge run to allow him the height for the sorts of leaps he does). The dining room has a laminate floor and he has to be careful with his footing but he tends to circuit the dining table on the chairs when he can't get outside. With having the open mesh cage he's never really shut away though he does have bits that he can curl up in if he wants privacy. The cage is also up against the unused set of french windows so he has an outside view as well. I've put a half gate on the door from the dining room to the rest of the house, he used to have more freedom but the nibbling got too much. I wasn't prepared to rabbit proof the whole house so he had to be limited, he's still allowed elsewhere but only under supervision, boy can he get some speed up on carpet. He loves hanging things and will endlessly swish through and back if you drape a scarf or towel over a chair.

You don't get the smells you would with a hutch, no wood for anything to soak into, but you do need to keep on top of the cleaning. We also give him a bottom bath fairly regularly, or at least my wife does, I draw the line!!! In the evenings he normally ends up slumping half on the arm of the sofa and half on my wifes shoulder, watching tv with us. I'm not convinced he watches but he does expect to be stroked and also grooms my wifes hair for her :biggrin: We had planned on getting him a buddy but were advised against it by both vet and pet shop. I think this was as we'd left it too long, he is a very content bunny and doesn't appear to be neurotic/lonely. They felt it would cause more problems and, as he was so happy, just to leave as is.
 
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david1701

Well-Known Member
Location
Bude, Cornwall
CharlieB said:
Will they co-habitate with cats? Not being facetious, it's a serious question, as I've considered it on and off.
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ours does, but its a giant rabbit so one a bit more of an even footing, the cat is pissed though.

Also, get a giant one, they're hysterical every now and again she stands up and there are ears over the table, also cleans kitchen floor (which makes me feel bad about wanting to cook rabbit pie as it would likely lead to cannibalism).

Downside is ours is slow to housetrain and does normal poos billions of them
 
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