(Sorry for the long post....)
:? A friend of my mum's has 'just' has found out that we've been looking into rescuing a rabbit. I don't know whether it is due to her being a breeder (I don't know if she is one or not...) or if it was an accidental litter:evil:, but anyway, she has two lop bunnies looking for homes, and she said if we don't take them she doesn't know what to do with them as no one else wants them... poor buns
My mum and I went to see them today and they are lovely I have to admit They're both male, one is a broken white/orangey colour, the other a kind of brown/light brown stripey pattern... gorgeous
However, the things that stopped me whisking them away from her there and then was that for one, she didn't seem exact on how old they were ("oh, about eight to ten weeks now" she said:shock and she doesn't know, or she just won't say(??) what type of lop they were. I have got a feeling that they were dwarfs, but they were so small I couldn't tell and I don't know much about breeds anyway, just that we were looking for a mini lop, having heard good things about them.
I feel like i'm in an awkward position... if I don't take them in, instead of getting a rescue rabbit, i'm seriously worried what will happen to them. But if I do take them, what if they turn out to be dwarf lops? My dad's building a hutch and run based around the RSPCA guidelines...but will that be big enough for dwarfs, we had designed it for mini lops because that's what we thought we were getting...:?
I wonder if anyone can help me... is there anyway of telling what type of lop they are? I do know it shouldn't really matter but I would like to know what i'm getting myself in for if I accept them... and what should I expect from a dwarf lop? Any help?
I've got to make my mind up fast, she said we've got to take them this weekend if we want them. *panics* I suppose it could still be called rescuing, couldn't it? They might end up in a rescue anyway (actually i've got a feeling that that's the nicest thing that might happen to them...maybe i'm just paranoid:shock:).
Thanks, honestly...anything anyone can say to help is apprieciated ...:wave:
:? A friend of my mum's has 'just' has found out that we've been looking into rescuing a rabbit. I don't know whether it is due to her being a breeder (I don't know if she is one or not...) or if it was an accidental litter:evil:, but anyway, she has two lop bunnies looking for homes, and she said if we don't take them she doesn't know what to do with them as no one else wants them... poor buns
My mum and I went to see them today and they are lovely I have to admit They're both male, one is a broken white/orangey colour, the other a kind of brown/light brown stripey pattern... gorgeous
However, the things that stopped me whisking them away from her there and then was that for one, she didn't seem exact on how old they were ("oh, about eight to ten weeks now" she said:shock and she doesn't know, or she just won't say(??) what type of lop they were. I have got a feeling that they were dwarfs, but they were so small I couldn't tell and I don't know much about breeds anyway, just that we were looking for a mini lop, having heard good things about them.
I feel like i'm in an awkward position... if I don't take them in, instead of getting a rescue rabbit, i'm seriously worried what will happen to them. But if I do take them, what if they turn out to be dwarf lops? My dad's building a hutch and run based around the RSPCA guidelines...but will that be big enough for dwarfs, we had designed it for mini lops because that's what we thought we were getting...:?
I wonder if anyone can help me... is there anyway of telling what type of lop they are? I do know it shouldn't really matter but I would like to know what i'm getting myself in for if I accept them... and what should I expect from a dwarf lop? Any help?
I've got to make my mind up fast, she said we've got to take them this weekend if we want them. *panics* I suppose it could still be called rescuing, couldn't it? They might end up in a rescue anyway (actually i've got a feeling that that's the nicest thing that might happen to them...maybe i'm just paranoid:shock:).
Thanks, honestly...anything anyone can say to help is apprieciated ...:wave: