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My first rabbits...

Summer&Skye

Summer&Skye

Mama Doe
Been looking through some old pics and thought u might like to c mine and my sisters 1st rabbits way back in 1991 when I was 11!

My sisters rabbit Candy, on the left, and my girl Tammy! :love:
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A very gormless looking me :oops: with a huge looking Tammy!
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Tammy in a basket!
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Tammy and Candy and our cat Max (also no longer here :()
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We found out Candy was a boy when this happened!
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Tammy had 8 gorgeous healthy babies!

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We called this little man Punk as he had the best fuzzy hair!! We wanted to keep him but weren't allowed
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There were 2 little white 'twins' my mum named Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee!
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Unfortunately Tammy always suffered with a sticky bum and i remember my dad always cleaning her but one day we discovered maggots :cry: it was one of the worst things iv ever witnessed. She had to be put to sleep :cry: We did our best but didn't know what we know now :(

These pics are when Candy was a lone bunny, from around 1994 so poor Tammy must only have lived 2 or 3 years :(

Candy and my cat Luca
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Although we knew less than we know now, they actually had a pretty good set up, my dad had built them a spacious 'L' shaped hutch then he built them a fenced off enclosure and the hutch went in there. It wasn't huge but at least they got out regularly.
 
Thanks for sharing. :wave:

The REW babies are especially cute. I expect my Spenser looked like that when he was little.
 
tonibun said:
Lovely photos, especially the babies!
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I know I still get sad when I think about them, we gave 2 to our friends who lived near us so we thought it was great as we'd get to c them, their dad built them a decent hutch, but they turned out to be male and female too and had a litter which the mum started eating :cry: it was so sad, most of them died but I remember one that had had its little leg chewed and they were trying to hand rear it but it died :cry: and in the meantime they'd split the hutch in 2 to keep the mum and dad apart but u can imagine how small the space would have been for each rabbit. I can't remember what happened, whether they got the boy neutered or not :(
We sent the rest to the pet shop where we got Tammy and Candy from :( Then we found out my sisters friend had bought Punk! She named him Bramble. I don't know if my sis ever went to c him but I like to think he had a nice home!
 
susie bun said:
Thanks for sharing. :wave:

The REW babies are especially cute. I expect my Spenser looked like that when he was little.
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:love: Spenser was prob like them but with Punks fuzziness!! :lol: Punk was the only long haired one. It still amazes me that she had 8 and there were such a variety of colours! None were like their mummy :( My faves were the two grey ones, I can't remember what we named the other :oops: but it was a gorgeous very pale creamy grey :love: That's one that our friends had, can't remember what they called it either :oops:
 
Summer&Skye said:
I know I still get sad when I think about them, we gave 2 to our friends who lived near us so we thought it was great as we'd get to c them, their dad built them a decent hutch, but they turned out to be male and female too and had a litter which the mum started eating :cry: it was so sad, most of them died but I remember one that had had its little leg chewed and they were trying to hand rear it but it died :cry: and in the meantime they'd split the hutch in 2 to keep the mum and dad apart but u can imagine how small the space would have been for each rabbit. I can't remember what happened, whether they got the boy neutered or not :(
We sent the rest to the pet shop where we got Tammy and Candy from :( Then we found out my sisters friend had bought Punk! She named him Bramble. I don't know if my sis ever went to c him but I like to think he had a nice home!
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It's so sad isn't it. I had never even considered rabbits as a pet in 1991. It wasn't until 1998 when my neighbour brought 2 home for the children and promptly went off for days on ennd and left me with their food! That's when I fell in love with them. She also brought 2 kittens home and kept them in the downstair's loo!
 
Summer&Skye said:
:love: Spenser was prob like them but with Punks fuzziness!! :lol: /QUOTE]

Spenser didn't really have his mane until his second summer with me, and he was fully grown when I got him. I met his Mum, a dark brown lionhead rather smaller than Spenser, but I don't know what his Dad was like.
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