sweetcheeksemma
Mama Doe
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1. Can you afford to:
Buy a large cage, outside run, food, bedding, litter and toys?
Have your rabbit neutered and vaccinated?
Pay the vet bills if your rabbit becomes ill?
Board your rabbit or pay someone to look after it when you go on holiday?
2. Can you spare a few hours every day to keep your rabbit company or are you willing to get two rabbits as company for each other. You need to get an already bonded pair or two babies from the same litter but they must be neutered at 3- 4 months for a male and 5-6 months for a female. If not, females will fight when they become adult and of course a male and female will have babies. Two males will also fight when they reach maturity if not neutered.
3 If you have children, are you willing to take full responsibility for looking the rabbit yourself, teaching your children not to pick up and carry the rabbit around and to quiet around it?
4. If your rabbit is not to be kept permanently in the house, do you have a shed to keep it in? It really is not suitable to keep a rabbit outside in a hutch.
5 Can you provide a large a large escape proof run for outside exercise — under supervision?
6 Are you willing to get to know your rabbit at floor level? As rabbits are prey animals, they hate being lifted off the ground. At best they will be terrified. At worst they will scratch and bite or may fall and break their backs.
7. Do you have a quiet, smoke free room without loud TV or music (the bass is very stressful for rabbits’ sensitive ears) to keep you rabbit in or let it exercise in. Also where then is no expensive carpet, pieces of furniture or wallpaper to worry about?
8. Are you willing to bunny-proof any rooms where the rabbit has access to eg cover or block off all electrical / telephone cables and make some compromises in you furniture arrangements?
9 Are you willing to do more cleaning than you would do without a rabbit, including litter-training accidents?
10 Are you willing to take on responsibility for the rabbit for its lifetime — even if it becomes aggressive, chronically ill or if you move house?
NB. Taking on a rabbit is the equivalent of taking on a dog or cat. A rabbit is not a disposable commodity — It can live for anything up to 14 years. It is your responsibility to find out everything you need to know before getting a rabbit.
This mini article was from here and I was posting it so people will think before getting a rabbit.
1. Can you afford to:
Buy a large cage, outside run, food, bedding, litter and toys?
Have your rabbit neutered and vaccinated?
Pay the vet bills if your rabbit becomes ill?
Board your rabbit or pay someone to look after it when you go on holiday?
2. Can you spare a few hours every day to keep your rabbit company or are you willing to get two rabbits as company for each other. You need to get an already bonded pair or two babies from the same litter but they must be neutered at 3- 4 months for a male and 5-6 months for a female. If not, females will fight when they become adult and of course a male and female will have babies. Two males will also fight when they reach maturity if not neutered.
3 If you have children, are you willing to take full responsibility for looking the rabbit yourself, teaching your children not to pick up and carry the rabbit around and to quiet around it?
4. If your rabbit is not to be kept permanently in the house, do you have a shed to keep it in? It really is not suitable to keep a rabbit outside in a hutch.
5 Can you provide a large a large escape proof run for outside exercise — under supervision?
6 Are you willing to get to know your rabbit at floor level? As rabbits are prey animals, they hate being lifted off the ground. At best they will be terrified. At worst they will scratch and bite or may fall and break their backs.
7. Do you have a quiet, smoke free room without loud TV or music (the bass is very stressful for rabbits’ sensitive ears) to keep you rabbit in or let it exercise in. Also where then is no expensive carpet, pieces of furniture or wallpaper to worry about?
8. Are you willing to bunny-proof any rooms where the rabbit has access to eg cover or block off all electrical / telephone cables and make some compromises in you furniture arrangements?
9 Are you willing to do more cleaning than you would do without a rabbit, including litter-training accidents?
10 Are you willing to take on responsibility for the rabbit for its lifetime — even if it becomes aggressive, chronically ill or if you move house?
NB. Taking on a rabbit is the equivalent of taking on a dog or cat. A rabbit is not a disposable commodity — It can live for anything up to 14 years. It is your responsibility to find out everything you need to know before getting a rabbit.
This mini article was from here and I was posting it so people will think before getting a rabbit.
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