toffeeandbuttons
New Kit
last year, my lionhead doe toffee escaped and got out in the feilds behind my house, she couldnt have been out of sight for more than half an hour. we got her back quite easily and put her back in the hutch with her guinea pig roommate, releived that the whole thing was over. low and behold, a month later we find two little babies in the hutch, one is dead but the other is very much alive. we were baffled over where they came from, initially unsure if the babies were the guinea pigs or rabbits, but closer inspection revealed they were defenatley rabbits. My mum suggested the guinea pig who we thought was a girl must be a boy after all and had mated with her. It took me so long to convince her that was defenatley not what had happened. Finnally, the penny dropped and we realised she must have had a cheeky fling with one of the wild rabbits behind our house in the few minutes she was out of sight when she escaped. we took toffee and her new baby who we named buttons inside the house and seperate from the guinea pig, and hoped for the best. I straight away turned to google to find out what to do in this situation, surely it had happened to someone before? but i found nothing, most sites told me it was impossible for cottontails and domestics to breed because of a different number of chromosones. Luckily, toffee was a great mum and with only one baby and a whole lotta a milk, buttons grew big and strong. He's now a year old and just as tame and good natured as any domestic rabbit, the only indication of his heratige being his appearance. He looks mostly like a wild rabbit, apart from a ginger tinge on his brown coat and ginger fluff behind his ears, like his mum. Has anyone heard of this before because the 'chromosone' information is quite obviously a load of ****, and people should be made aware that if their female bunny escapes in a rural area, this could happen 
