My brother's Staffie will be coming to live with us for 3 weeks when he goes away on holiday next week!
Now, this staffie, like any other dog has natural instincts and that is to eat rabbits!
My brother who had moved out years ago, came back home with his dog, (this was about 2 years ago) and we have tried to train his dog to get on with rabbits before but didn’t work. My last rabbit, Skip (English X dwarf) was the 'tester' as you could say. We put him in a run outside and the dog on a lead, and let him go up to rabbit and sniff him etc. but, unexpectedly, he broke through the run and tried to go for Skip! Fortunately, the rabbit survived this and all was well afterwards. (Surprised he didn’t die of a heart attack! :?)
we didn’t want to take any risks this time, and the rabbit had to spend almost 6 months in the garage where he died in there at 7 years old it was heartbreaking for me to see this, as he died without getting his freedom back.
Now that my brother has moved out again, we decided it was time to get a couple of new rabbits
Now, I have a little situation: cry: I feel so bad for my rabbits that I have at the moment, as they’re going to have to be cooped up in their hutches and runs for these 3 weeks.
If this dog even sees them running around in the garden he goes ape!!
I just don’t know what to do…
Is there anything that I can do?
Oscar (giant rabbit) is probably half the size of this dog so I don’t know whether or not he might get on with him, or his natural instincts will kick in again!!
I can see why he went for skip, he was a tiny little rabbit who looked like a small snack for him :lol:
is there any suggestions on this? becuase anything is better than nothing.
Now, this staffie, like any other dog has natural instincts and that is to eat rabbits!
My brother who had moved out years ago, came back home with his dog, (this was about 2 years ago) and we have tried to train his dog to get on with rabbits before but didn’t work. My last rabbit, Skip (English X dwarf) was the 'tester' as you could say. We put him in a run outside and the dog on a lead, and let him go up to rabbit and sniff him etc. but, unexpectedly, he broke through the run and tried to go for Skip! Fortunately, the rabbit survived this and all was well afterwards. (Surprised he didn’t die of a heart attack! :?)
we didn’t want to take any risks this time, and the rabbit had to spend almost 6 months in the garage where he died in there at 7 years old it was heartbreaking for me to see this, as he died without getting his freedom back.
Now that my brother has moved out again, we decided it was time to get a couple of new rabbits
Now, I have a little situation: cry: I feel so bad for my rabbits that I have at the moment, as they’re going to have to be cooped up in their hutches and runs for these 3 weeks.
If this dog even sees them running around in the garden he goes ape!!
I just don’t know what to do…
Is there anything that I can do?
Oscar (giant rabbit) is probably half the size of this dog so I don’t know whether or not he might get on with him, or his natural instincts will kick in again!!
I can see why he went for skip, he was a tiny little rabbit who looked like a small snack for him :lol:
is there any suggestions on this? becuase anything is better than nothing.