A wildie x in p@h..

[Aly&Poppy<3]

I think it is very worth while finding out whether this little bun is all domestic bun, or whether there is a wildie component.
A few folk on here have hand reared orphaned wildies, or have a wildie X. IMO they should never be sold to the unsuspecting public. They have a few "personality characteristics" which are different from domestic buns, & it needs a fair bit of experience to understand them.

However I gather than some breeders are breeding domestic buns which resemble wildies more closely, but have the same temperament, & behaviour as domestic buns. Oh dear breeding for the fashion market.:roll::evil:

If he/she is still there what do you think I should do? I don't think I could leave without getting annoyed at the manager and without the bun :? ..we still have Don and Lola's hutch on the patio..

 

[nessar]

Couldn't the bun just be an agouti small breed? Like a mini-rex cross or something.

 

[parsnipbun]

Did it look like this???

(apols for the bars) . . .

This is a full wildie at about 10 weeks (he did NOT spend long in this cage by the way . . although he enjoyed it as a home base - as he had had this base frm 9 days old . . -but he was mostly free ranging. He now lives with two other wildies and a domestic in a large aviary and lawn runs. )

 

[Schtoffen]

Hi there...

Sorry to drag this old thread up but I saw about a baby wildy/hare type bun you saw in a local P@H....sounds like the same kind of bun that mine was and the same time of year!! (But mine was bought in Dorset). She's a small Belgian hare cross, although the vet doesn't know what with (a squirrel by the looks of her) and she was very thin and small and wild and gangly looking (the main reason I got her, she was so ugly no one would have bought her). Here are some photos. I wonder if it was one of Toasty's relatives! I've searched and searched all over on the net but never found a bun that looks like Toasty colour-wise nor heard of one until now! Also because someone on the forum mentioned that buns with some wildy in them have strange personalities... I know everyone says this about their buns...but Toasty really is mad. I mean she is proper box-of-frogs bag-of-snakes mad!!

Here are some photos of her:

Baby Toasty

Baby Toasty

Nom

The day we brought her home. Don't be fooled, she's mad, bad and dangerous to know!!


I know it's a bit of a longshot, but seemed a funny co-incidence lol