confusedman
Mama Doe
My OH and I are supposed to make a decision. I'll try to explain as much as I can the situation. We have spent hours and hours thinking and discussing about it and we are very worried about the decision.
I hope ARC members don't mind I post this thread and I hope they give us their opinion as well.
Our firs rabbit is Fanta, a fawn minilop. We thought she was a disaster as a house rabbit (but now we know she's not). We kept her for one year in our kitchen/living room in a nero 3 cage (I've been told of already because it's small, please don't do it again). From october she was free range 24/7, using her cage as her refuge but with the door open.
We decide to giver her a boyfriend and we adopt George from ARC the 7th of december. We knew already he was a difficult boy, growling and biting a bit but we weren't worried about that. We were worried about their relationship and how good he could be as a housebunny, even if George was littertrained.
ARC, very kindly, organized the bonding.
From the first day George was quite nice with Fanta and not horrible with us, but awfully destructive. He's a very very active lad who is able to destroy furniture in few seconds. He wees and poes all over the place and when he gets excited about food, etc, he starts biting Fanta (maybe this is normal but we are worried about her)
The situation now is the following: After a month and a half we can not keep Fanta free range anymore. We keep then closed in the cage and we try to let them run in the garden in the afternoon under supervision. It's really cold and we dont know how bad it can be for them (as well for us..., after five minutes we are desperate!).
Options:
-Keeping them both inside closed in a small cage (no chances of upgrading due to small apartment)
-Keeping them both outside in a hutch, loosing contact with Fanta. I dont know how much time you spend with your outsiders but I dont think I can spend a lot with this cold.
- Keeping George outside and Fanta inside. Then, going back to the initial problem of having a lonely rabbit, now we would have to lonely rabbits. We dont know if we can keep then together part of the day or if they would fight if they dont spend all the day together.
- Sending back George. My other half doesnt mind but I dont want to because I feel we are failing him. Apart fromt he fact that he is like terminator I love him. But maybe if he goes back he can find a better home.
Please dont think we are irresponsible because as I told you before we have spent a lot of time worrying about the situation.
Any advice???
Thanks in advance
I hope ARC members don't mind I post this thread and I hope they give us their opinion as well.
Our firs rabbit is Fanta, a fawn minilop. We thought she was a disaster as a house rabbit (but now we know she's not). We kept her for one year in our kitchen/living room in a nero 3 cage (I've been told of already because it's small, please don't do it again). From october she was free range 24/7, using her cage as her refuge but with the door open.
We decide to giver her a boyfriend and we adopt George from ARC the 7th of december. We knew already he was a difficult boy, growling and biting a bit but we weren't worried about that. We were worried about their relationship and how good he could be as a housebunny, even if George was littertrained.
ARC, very kindly, organized the bonding.
From the first day George was quite nice with Fanta and not horrible with us, but awfully destructive. He's a very very active lad who is able to destroy furniture in few seconds. He wees and poes all over the place and when he gets excited about food, etc, he starts biting Fanta (maybe this is normal but we are worried about her)
The situation now is the following: After a month and a half we can not keep Fanta free range anymore. We keep then closed in the cage and we try to let them run in the garden in the afternoon under supervision. It's really cold and we dont know how bad it can be for them (as well for us..., after five minutes we are desperate!).
Options:
-Keeping them both inside closed in a small cage (no chances of upgrading due to small apartment)
-Keeping them both outside in a hutch, loosing contact with Fanta. I dont know how much time you spend with your outsiders but I dont think I can spend a lot with this cold.
- Keeping George outside and Fanta inside. Then, going back to the initial problem of having a lonely rabbit, now we would have to lonely rabbits. We dont know if we can keep then together part of the day or if they would fight if they dont spend all the day together.
- Sending back George. My other half doesnt mind but I dont want to because I feel we are failing him. Apart fromt he fact that he is like terminator I love him. But maybe if he goes back he can find a better home.
Please dont think we are irresponsible because as I told you before we have spent a lot of time worrying about the situation.
Any advice???
Thanks in advance