zarathustra
Warren Scout
I wasn’t sure where about this post would fit, so I decided to pop it in here.
The other half and I have wanted to get a dog for a while, and we went to the local dogs trust place today, saw a dog that we like.
We have two rabbits, who live outside in their hutch and have a heavy duty run that they have access to via a heavy duty tunnel (run a round binky box).
We bought this up with the dogs trust and they are going to bring the dog over on Monday for a home visit, home check and “rabbit test”. As we want to make sure that the dog isn’t going to try and eat them as that would obviously be a deal breaker.
Providing the checks and everything on Monday go OK we then need to move on to other visits, presentations etc, so things will move relatively slowly.
The dog is 2 years old mastiff cross (possibly with some sort of terrier) who is house trained, good with other dogs etc etc.
If, and it is a big IF at this point, we did rehome her does anyone have any advice on how to get the dog and rabbits used to each other?
I should make it clear that the dog would never have access to the rabbits, other than being able to sniff their hutch/run. The rabbits would never have free run time with the dog etc. But, if we rehome the dog they would need to at least tolerate each other.
I hope that makes sense, we would like the rabbits not to freak out every time they seem the dog and race all over the place stamping their feet.
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The other half and I have wanted to get a dog for a while, and we went to the local dogs trust place today, saw a dog that we like.
We have two rabbits, who live outside in their hutch and have a heavy duty run that they have access to via a heavy duty tunnel (run a round binky box).
We bought this up with the dogs trust and they are going to bring the dog over on Monday for a home visit, home check and “rabbit test”. As we want to make sure that the dog isn’t going to try and eat them as that would obviously be a deal breaker.
Providing the checks and everything on Monday go OK we then need to move on to other visits, presentations etc, so things will move relatively slowly.
The dog is 2 years old mastiff cross (possibly with some sort of terrier) who is house trained, good with other dogs etc etc.
If, and it is a big IF at this point, we did rehome her does anyone have any advice on how to get the dog and rabbits used to each other?
I should make it clear that the dog would never have access to the rabbits, other than being able to sniff their hutch/run. The rabbits would never have free run time with the dog etc. But, if we rehome the dog they would need to at least tolerate each other.
I hope that makes sense, we would like the rabbits not to freak out every time they seem the dog and race all over the place stamping their feet.
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