bunnies.

[cosmo105]

i'm considering becoming a rabbit owner. adopting a rescued one, of course. anyone have any experience with rabbit ownership? i've been doing research and reading all the handbooks and such.

[paulb]

they poo ALOT...

[The Notorious LOL]

yup they shit constantly.

[mickill]

We have two. It's messy.

hpdrifter wants to get rid of hers. Maye she'll let you have them.

[paulb]

i think bunnies need their own line of colostomy bags.

[burbboi]

Bunnies are cute, but smell bad and bite sometimes when they're pissed.

[hpdrifter]

i'm considering becoming a rabbit owner. adopting a rescued one, of course. anyone have any experience with rabbit ownership? i've been doing research and reading all the handbooks and such.

Oh my god this is my area of expertise. I have 4 rescue bunnies and am the team leader for the volunteer program that handles rabbits at the Seattle Animal Shelter. I've been working with this for like 4 years.

I have acres of knowledge. Many of the handbooks out there have misleading or outright incorrect info. I'll PM you my email address and we can chat about it there, there's kind of a lot to say. To start off go to www.rabbit.org (http://www.rabbit.org). They're the House Rabbit Society and have extensive FAQs about rabbit ownership.

*claps hands together*

Having bunnies is awesome.

[hpdrifter]

We have two. It's messy.

hpdrifter wants to get rid of hers. Maye she'll let you have them.

This is patently false.

[ToucanSpam]

When I was a kid the daycare center I went to all the time had rabbits. We were supposed to only feed them carrots and lettuce, while someone who didn't puke as easy as us kids was to clean out the barn of the shit. Sadly, many of the bunnies we had died over the winter because they stayed in the barn the whole year, which is awful. :(


I was actually considering getting a rabbit too, no lies. I know nothing about them either except I tried chasing a wild rabbit in a forrest once. The crazy thing managed to run up a 90 degree hill and take off. When I managed to get up to the top of the hill, I found myself sliding down this retarted mountain that happened to be on the other side....and I wound up in their pooping area and a couple of them went retarted and scampered off.

[tracky]

We had a rabbit as kids. He was a cuntbag to us, and then needed all sorts of special treatment and such. rabbits. meh.

[Freebasser]

My sister had a rabbit as a kid in the 80s.

He used to run up her shellsuit sleeve and shit in it.

[B4BY 4NN]

I want a big, fat BLACK bunny that would probably be named some Japanese hoopla like my cats.

But that's the problem, I think... Cats. I've 5, and they're not leaving.


If I someday get a bun, I do it Radetica-stylee. Take it to the park on a leash and stuff.

[TurdBerglar]

get a ferret instead

[B4BY 4NN]

get a ferret instead

No. They're assholes.

[TurdBerglar]

yeah i know

[befsquire]

i'm pretty much an expert on them because my best friend in 8th grade had one and i once looked at it when she went to feed it.

it was smelly.

but maybe you'll love it so much that you won't think it smells, and you won't notice that no one wants to hang around you because you stink like smelly rabbit. :)

[Ace42X]

I had an albino rabbit that was blind in one eye and had a loppy ear, and he was sooooooooo adorable and affectionate.

My sister's albino rabbit was PSYCHO though, so we got rid of it. We got an older one (already 4), which was brown, REALLY flufy, and was one of the "turned down ear" breeds. He was also really sweet. They never left our garden (even though ours neighbour's rabbits were always escaping and getting run over) and whenever they were done running around, they'd jump back into their hutches. But if the hutch door was closed, they'd try to jump in (they were above the ground to stop cats and mice bothering them because of the food and straw and hay etc) and bounce off the mesh.

[Medellia]

My sister had a couple for a while. One was really sweet, but kinda ugly. The other was the most beauty rabbit I've ever seen but was a vicious little thing. The pretty one would bite everyone's toes whenever you walked past. We had to get rid of the mean one and the sweet one died a few months later. She was pretty lonely during those couple of months, even though she played wiht the cats and dog all the time.

Oh, and before those two my mom rescued a baby bunny from work that had been attacked by a dog. We managed to keep it alive for a couple of weeks, but it wouldn't eat and for some reason animal control wouldn't take it. So yeah, the baby didn't make it either.

[faz]

I think I had a rabbit when I was a kid, I dont really remember though. We had gunnie pigs but the dad started beating the kids or something so we got rid of them....or they died.

I've considerd getting a terrapin turtle recently. How ace would that be? Little turtle running around and stuff.

[TurdBerglar]

you could make some money off a turtle that could run

[cosmo105]

well scratch that. my hours got severely cut at work and there's no way in hell i could afford even a friggin goldfish now, unless something changes drastically. thanks for the info though everybody. no mr. bun buns for me. :(

[Drederick Tatum]

fuck bunnies. an Axolotl (http://www.branchesquarterly.com/images/axolotl-RFein700.JPG) is what you need. they can go on land AND WATER. they're also known as Mexican Walking Fish, so you know...

[HotAndWet]

I want a bunny too. I have a friend that rescues them and told me a lot about them. Also, from working around them I've learned quite a bit. As soon as I get my apartment I am hoping to get a bunny and/or chinchilla. :)

[mickill]

This is patently false.
Pardon? (http://www.beastieboys.com/bbs/showthread.php?t=63290)

[ASsman]

Good eats.

[enree erzweglle]

Over the weekend when I went into a store, three rescued and excited Rottweilers eyed me up and one nearly knocked me down. It was all friendly.

When I looked closely, I saw that there were four Rottweilers. One was one sort of half-hiding under the table. He kept a downcast eye on me and when I looked at him or took a step close to him, he went further under the table.

To get him to come to me, I had to pretend like I sort of wanted him not to come to me. It took maybe 10 minutes for him to halfway untuck his tail. After awhile, he took a few steps toward me then retreated and then he'd peek out, come out for a bit, and just look. With his head down. We did this for maybe 15 minutes and eventually, he came all the way to me, although even that was tentative, like he couldn't help but second-guess whether he should have done that.

After maybe an hour of this, he came over, head low, and stayed with me, half leaned up to me. But he was so, so nervous. He watched me and when I'd look at him, he'd look away. I know what happened to him.

I want that dog.

But I kind of don't like dogs. This one spoke right to me, though. His name is Fred.

[ms.peachy]

I have to say I have never understood the lure of bunnies as pets. Yes they're cute and soft and everything, but what do they actually do besides shit and chew through all your cords? They just seem very boring to me, compared to a cat or dog. Plus I've never gotten the feeling that they really particularly like being petted or anything - like, they don't mind if you do, but really, they don't care if don't either.

ps great story enree; I would have been totally suckered by that dog as well.

[ASsman]

The sure don't like getting fried up by your drunken neighbors.

Yeah, I don't see the point either, even cats are like 'buh'. All bitchy and what not. All rabbits I've known to have been own by someone has either been killed by a fox, escaped and killed by a fox or just gotten stuck in a fence and killed by a fox.

Ironically they get all fat and comftorable in their cages , when it comes to running away from foxes and what have you, hehe.

[discopants]

I used to have an albino hamster called Steve.

Rabbits? In the words of Father Jack:
"Hairy Japanese bastards"

[hpdrifter]

Pardon? (http://www.beastieboys.com/bbs/showthread.php?t=63290)

I don't want to as such. I sort of have to.

[mickill]

My bad. Wrong choice of words.

[hpdrifter]

I spent some time with Lewis yesterday. He's a good bunny. He's the only one who will sit with me and just sit still and let me pet him. I'm going to miss him. A lot. :(

[hpdrifter]

I just feel bad because he's had such a hard life. He came to the shelter as a baby. He and his family (mom, dad, and 2 litters of babies) were being kept in a stacked cage under a duck and the duck was crapping all over them. So they came to the shelter and Lewis got adopted. But then he was returned about 6 months later, sick as hell and with his legs atrophied so bad that he couldn't walk (too much cage time, not enough exercise). I put him on the floor and his legs just splayed out underneath him.

I got him back to health, gave him the right diet and got his weight down so he was able to groom himself again. Now he can hop and run and stuff. He's got some problem with his back, though, he can't stand on his back legs like some rabbits do.

I wish I could afford to own a house, then I could keep them all.

[mickill]

I spent some time with Lewis yesterday. He's a good bunny. He's the only one who will sit with me and just sit still and let me pet him. I'm going to miss him. A lot. :(
That's how Pringles is. He's very good-natured. Wouldn't hurt a fly. Fella, on the other hand, would remove chunks of your skin if you tried to pick him up. I use oven mitts. We should leave him with a kindergarten class, maybe.

[Planetary]

Rabbits? In the words of Father Jack:
"Hairy Japanese bastards"

LMAO

[cosmo105]

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god you suck.

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[Ace42X]

but what do they actually do besides shit and chew through all your cords? They just seem very boring to me, compared to a cat or dog. Plus I've never gotten the feeling that they really particularly like being petted or anything - like, they don't mind if you do, but really, they don't care if don't either.

My rabbit would groom me, and come up to see what I was doing, and use my legs as cover for his blind eye.

[cosmo105]

My rabbit would groom me, and come up to see what I was doing, and use my legs as cover for his blind eye.
rabbits can be very interesting and even like being petted and whatnot. i would still like to get one eventually when i can afford it, but when i do, i'll do lots more research and go to different shelters and rescues to find one that works just right for me personally.

cmute, i've been doing these for a long time. it's my thing that i do.

[fucktopgirl]

in high school,my friend had a rabbit,he was clean,always go do is duty in the same place.

But,it does not give back attention like a dog/cat, i guess its alright to have in a apart if you cannot have a dog....