My brother and his wife (who I haven't spoken to in years, so all this I heard from my mum) have had two unneutered rabbits for about a year - 1 boy and 1 girl - that have been living separately.
All was fine until a few mths ago when their little girl left the run door open and the 2 rabbits got together. Nothing happened that time but they still didn't get the boy neutered and about 2 weeks later the female broke out of her run for another moment of passion.
4 weeks later - 3 babies appear. :roll: The babies are now 8 wks old and they have now found another two new babies :shock::shock: (one had died), so have taken the older ones out. The vet has suggested that it was one of the older babies that made mum pregnant - would that even be possible at 4 wks old? :shock: The other option is that it happened through the bars of the run - although he would have to be an acrobat hung like a donkey surely? :shock::lol: My guess is they had another mishap they haven't admitted to. :evil:
So finally they're doing something and will get the mum spayed instead (let's just hope she doesn't get pregnant again first!!). But, they want to keep two of the older babies (all 3 are male) and they'll just hope that they won't fight because they've grown up together. I tried to tell my mum that they really need to get them neutered if they want to keep them both, but I'm really not sure they'll listen.
It's so frustrating and I can't believe how irresponsible they've been. If I hadn't already fallen out with them then i think I would have now. They were going to get the boy neutered a while ago but then had to pay for him to have a dental and didn't want to pay any more money out quite so soon. So, instead, they have let the mum have 2 litters straight after the other and have had to buy 2 new hutches.
Sorry to waffle on, just had to get it off my chest.
All was fine until a few mths ago when their little girl left the run door open and the 2 rabbits got together. Nothing happened that time but they still didn't get the boy neutered and about 2 weeks later the female broke out of her run for another moment of passion.
4 weeks later - 3 babies appear. :roll: The babies are now 8 wks old and they have now found another two new babies :shock::shock: (one had died), so have taken the older ones out. The vet has suggested that it was one of the older babies that made mum pregnant - would that even be possible at 4 wks old? :shock: The other option is that it happened through the bars of the run - although he would have to be an acrobat hung like a donkey surely? :shock::lol: My guess is they had another mishap they haven't admitted to. :evil:
So finally they're doing something and will get the mum spayed instead (let's just hope she doesn't get pregnant again first!!). But, they want to keep two of the older babies (all 3 are male) and they'll just hope that they won't fight because they've grown up together. I tried to tell my mum that they really need to get them neutered if they want to keep them both, but I'm really not sure they'll listen.
It's so frustrating and I can't believe how irresponsible they've been. If I hadn't already fallen out with them then i think I would have now. They were going to get the boy neutered a while ago but then had to pay for him to have a dental and didn't want to pay any more money out quite so soon. So, instead, they have let the mum have 2 litters straight after the other and have had to buy 2 new hutches.
Sorry to waffle on, just had to get it off my chest.