rabswood
Wise Old Thumper
My mum's new neighbour is a rescue person, she has 4 rescue dogs and 2 rescue cats and also works for a dog rescue. so I was guessing she must be a nice person although I have never even seen her. Anyway the other day my mum told me the family now had a rabbit. So I looked over the fence and saw a 3 ft double storey hutch and could see a little Nethie in there. There was clean water and hay in a hay rack. I told my mum one day soon I would call round with a bag of farm hay, introduce myself as another animal person and talk rabbits with the intention of making sure she had enough info to do good by the little bun.
Yesterday while at my mums I say her in the garden at the hutch so popped out (in my four inch high heals) across the muddy garden I went to the fence and started a conversation about rescue animals, telling her about my buns, the forum etc, etc. While there I noticed there was also a piggy in the hutch with the rabbit. So we had a conversation about that too.
Much to my delight not only does she seem a really nice person she listened to everything I said about bunnies and pigs, small hutches, getting them neutered, splitting them up. She even asked should she get a friend of their own kind for each of them. I didn't want to mention that at this point as she had already said she would split them and get bunny bigger housing, I didn't want to overwhelm her.
Anyway I am going to take her a pack of info round (housing, feeding, exercise and stimulation, spaying and neutering, etc) in the next couple of days and a bag of farm hay. It was so great to talk to someone who was receptive. I do talk to quite a few people in pet shops or other places where it comes up that I have rabbits and they have a rabbit but quite a few of them come up with excuses as to why they can't make the improvements I tell them about - you know the usual...'we haven't got the space for a bigger hutch... the pig and the rabbit have always lived together they get along fine...
So result!
Yesterday while at my mums I say her in the garden at the hutch so popped out (in my four inch high heals) across the muddy garden I went to the fence and started a conversation about rescue animals, telling her about my buns, the forum etc, etc. While there I noticed there was also a piggy in the hutch with the rabbit. So we had a conversation about that too.
Much to my delight not only does she seem a really nice person she listened to everything I said about bunnies and pigs, small hutches, getting them neutered, splitting them up. She even asked should she get a friend of their own kind for each of them. I didn't want to mention that at this point as she had already said she would split them and get bunny bigger housing, I didn't want to overwhelm her.
Anyway I am going to take her a pack of info round (housing, feeding, exercise and stimulation, spaying and neutering, etc) in the next couple of days and a bag of farm hay. It was so great to talk to someone who was receptive. I do talk to quite a few people in pet shops or other places where it comes up that I have rabbits and they have a rabbit but quite a few of them come up with excuses as to why they can't make the improvements I tell them about - you know the usual...'we haven't got the space for a bigger hutch... the pig and the rabbit have always lived together they get along fine...
So result!