Hi
I'm a new poster looking for advice from rabbitty people. My family have a house rabbit, a little Netherland Dwarf who we got from a rescue centre. She is very friendly, up to a point, and well trained since she uses her cage as a litter tray and will go back into it on command. She's also a bit aloof, keeps herself to herself and spends a lot of time under the dining room table while we (two adults and two teenage kids) are in the lounge. She is calm and laid back and gets her nails clipped without fuss and will let my daughter look at her teeth if she's in the mood. She's about four or five and is spayed.
We're now wondering if we could have a cat, since someone we know needs to have theirs adopted/fostered since they are going abroad for some time. The cat has never been housed with another pet and is also an indoors only pet and has been spayed. The cat is very affectionate and I have never seen her chase anything. She's also laid back about being handled and since she is semi longhaired she gets groomed regularly and tolerates that very well.
Now, I've visited loads of cat and rabbit advice pages and most of them seem to think that cats and rabbits can and will get along very well. The introduction needs careful handling and obviously an eye needs to be kept on whether one or other is being bullied and I believe that the rabbitty half can be as guilty of this as the cat half.
I'd appreciate opinions/experiences and views on this since if it isn't right for either pet then we will need to have a rethink about our friends and their cat.
I'm a new poster looking for advice from rabbitty people. My family have a house rabbit, a little Netherland Dwarf who we got from a rescue centre. She is very friendly, up to a point, and well trained since she uses her cage as a litter tray and will go back into it on command. She's also a bit aloof, keeps herself to herself and spends a lot of time under the dining room table while we (two adults and two teenage kids) are in the lounge. She is calm and laid back and gets her nails clipped without fuss and will let my daughter look at her teeth if she's in the mood. She's about four or five and is spayed.
We're now wondering if we could have a cat, since someone we know needs to have theirs adopted/fostered since they are going abroad for some time. The cat has never been housed with another pet and is also an indoors only pet and has been spayed. The cat is very affectionate and I have never seen her chase anything. She's also laid back about being handled and since she is semi longhaired she gets groomed regularly and tolerates that very well.
Now, I've visited loads of cat and rabbit advice pages and most of them seem to think that cats and rabbits can and will get along very well. The introduction needs careful handling and obviously an eye needs to be kept on whether one or other is being bullied and I believe that the rabbitty half can be as guilty of this as the cat half.
I'd appreciate opinions/experiences and views on this since if it isn't right for either pet then we will need to have a rethink about our friends and their cat.