He came with another rescue and they were supposed to have been bonded, but with hindsight we don't think they were. Many, many attempts to bond them and to get the other rabbit to bond with us failed. And when she started to attack my daughter, we had to move her to another family where she would be a single.
Ouch! They say rabbits aren’t ideal pets for children, but I bet the last thing your daughter expected was to have to fend off such an adorable creature.
[Paging David Attenborough] Stretch and yawn or prelude to a pounce?
we learned the hard way about cables when a few years on my birthday of all days i came downstairs to find he'd been behind the TV and home entertainment systems and ruined several hundred pounds of high quality cabling and somehow managed to nibble all of the live power leads without injury to himself.
We haven’t had significant loses… a few dangling headphone cords and a charger have, however, been sacrificed to the cause.
Mirror leaning against the wall
Who's the most distracting of them all?
Not bovvered
Even after all this time, we still experience the occasional shock of coming into a room and finding a rabbit there.
You're out of printer paper
I was just leaving
Even when he’s not in the room, there are clues all over the place; aside from the aforementioned bunny proofing, it’s a safe bet there’s evidence of his habbit of doing takeaway. I’m referring, as some of you will already know, to hay. Not to exaggerate, but it. Gets. Everywhere.
Not satisfied with the frequently replenished pile in his tray, he often feels the need to drag it out onto the carpeting, perhaps to satisfy his foraging instinct. My wife even used to find the odd strand in her handbag after she’d gone to work in the big city.
Hay satisfies both the need for fibre for the constantly moving conveyor belt of this herbivore's digestive system,
Not to scale of appetite
but to maintain the health of ever-growing
teeth. Common advice is that you should offer them an amount equal to the size of their body every day. Our hungry fella says “You must be joking, mate!” He’s so picky that it’s safe to say we throw at least half of it away.
A week’s supply
Fortunately hay is cheap. We get ours from an animal feed store for £4.25/bale. (Later I shall be examining bunny economics.)
This brings me to
Pet Anxiety Awareness month, which apparently March has been. In our case, we’re switching that around to pet owner anxiety month.
Though hay is the bulk of his diet, he also gets a morning and an evening serving of greens.
I can recommend the basil today
I’m sure you’re aware that it can now be difficult enough stocking your own provisions, let alone those of your small furry charges. We’re just as concerned about maintaining his diet as we are ours. [Snopes: more concerned.] So my wife, his personal chef, has been slowly decreasing his portion size to prepare his stomach for possible lean times.
Ocado still not picking up?
PS. Was a bit surprised nobody called me out on the
Shania Twain upthread.
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