Hi Everyone,
I thought I had better introduce myself after lurking about for the past few days I'm Vicky, 26 and live near Southend in Essex with my boyfriend Ian, our 4 rats (Dot, Dana, Ruby and Rose) and syrian hamster Mr Cloud all of whom are rescued/adopted animals.
I'm here because I'm adopting a female lop called Jessica next week (although she will probably be known as Jess/Jessie as I can't get the image of Roger Rabbit's girlfriend out of my head when I call her Jessica). I'm taking her in from a friend as her other rabbit just won't take to her and my friend just can't give her the time she deserves and her garden isn't big enough for 2 permanent hutches plus runs. She's getting spayed this coming Monday & providing she's happy & well after that I'll pick her up a few days later. She is going to be a house bunny as we don't have a garden, we have ordered a large dog cage/crate and have been getting ideas from some of the cage layouts on this forum (although I'm hoping she won't have to spend too much time in it anyway). I went out and bought heaps of things for her to chew on and to keep her amused yesterday. I can't wait for the cage to arrive so we can deck it out, I'm already thinking about putting in a shelf. I'm really excited, can you tell?! She will be a lone rabbit for the time being as my OH has said that's it for animals while we live here, I hope to plant ideas in his head though so he will let me get her a neutered male to live with her but we'll have to see how easy it is looking after Jess really.
This forum has been really helpful so far, I like to be prepared and so I know I'll be giving her the best care possible. I hope to chat with and swap tips with lots of you in the future and it would be good to hear from anyone near me that can give me any tips on the best places to get pet supplies from as there is a PAH really near me but I'd like to avoid it if I can.
Edit: Here's the pic from OH's phone
I thought I had better introduce myself after lurking about for the past few days I'm Vicky, 26 and live near Southend in Essex with my boyfriend Ian, our 4 rats (Dot, Dana, Ruby and Rose) and syrian hamster Mr Cloud all of whom are rescued/adopted animals.
I'm here because I'm adopting a female lop called Jessica next week (although she will probably be known as Jess/Jessie as I can't get the image of Roger Rabbit's girlfriend out of my head when I call her Jessica). I'm taking her in from a friend as her other rabbit just won't take to her and my friend just can't give her the time she deserves and her garden isn't big enough for 2 permanent hutches plus runs. She's getting spayed this coming Monday & providing she's happy & well after that I'll pick her up a few days later. She is going to be a house bunny as we don't have a garden, we have ordered a large dog cage/crate and have been getting ideas from some of the cage layouts on this forum (although I'm hoping she won't have to spend too much time in it anyway). I went out and bought heaps of things for her to chew on and to keep her amused yesterday. I can't wait for the cage to arrive so we can deck it out, I'm already thinking about putting in a shelf. I'm really excited, can you tell?! She will be a lone rabbit for the time being as my OH has said that's it for animals while we live here, I hope to plant ideas in his head though so he will let me get her a neutered male to live with her but we'll have to see how easy it is looking after Jess really.
This forum has been really helpful so far, I like to be prepared and so I know I'll be giving her the best care possible. I hope to chat with and swap tips with lots of you in the future and it would be good to hear from anyone near me that can give me any tips on the best places to get pet supplies from as there is a PAH really near me but I'd like to avoid it if I can.
Edit: Here's the pic from OH's phone
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