anyone here taken care of a dwarf rabbit before?
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I was expecting the story to be like this:
Hey guys, tell me what you think you'd do if you were me - I had a crush on this girl, who was really hot, in my acting class, and I found out she likes rabbits. And so I bought a dwarf rabbit for her thinking she'd go out with me, but then I found out she has a boyfriend. So I'm keeping the rabbit.
Hey guys, tell me what you think you'd do if you were me - I had a crush on this girl, who was really hot, in my acting class, and I found out she likes rabbits. And so I bought a dwarf rabbit for her thinking she'd go out with me, but then I found out she has a boyfriend. So I'm keeping the rabbit.
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best way to take care of it is put it in a heft cinch sack and seal it for an hour.
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wasabi said:
If we're putting it in a sack, might as well beat the sack with a bat, or swing it against a wall.
whenever i get a new animal i usual put it in the microwave on HIGH for 1 second. if nothing happens (it usually doesnt) i put it in for 2 seconds. then 3, 4 all the way to 10 seconds. if it is still ok after a 10 second microwave trip then that animal is pretty fucking cool.
how long is ur rabbit up to? dont be scared dude they are tougher than u think.
how long is ur rabbit up to? dont be scared dude they are tougher than u think.
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I prefer to expose small woodland animals to Gamma rays.FeelGood said:
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This thread has officially been brought to the attention of Fygee, the bunny person. 
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You people are horrible. :P
Anyways, as a longtime proud owner of dwarf rabbits, here's some tips.
1. Fresh water, alfalfa hay, and food at all times.
2. There's various types of rabbit food out there that he might like and is better than the standard "green pellets". A good one to go with is one that features a good amount of the green pellets and also includes some dried fruit and vegetable chips with it. You can also suppliment with small amounts of oatmeal which many rabbits tend to like and helps their digestion.
3. Try to resist the temptation to feed your rabbit a lot of fresh vegies and fruits. If you give them too much they'll get upset stomachs and massive diarreah, which is both a major pain to clean up and just bad for your bunny. I usually feed mine a small piece of fresh vegies or fruit once every two or three days.
4. Make sure to change its litter at least once a week or every two weeks if its a large cage/hutch. It'll help prevent illness and just make things smell better. Also use paper based litter (looks like grey clumps) instead of pine chips as pine chips give off a chemical that can be harmful to them in the long term.
5. Be sure to pet it a lot and give it lots of love, especially when you've first got it. That will both build a strong emotional attachment with you and get it used to being touched by people. Don't just let it sit in a cage and look at it every once in a while, as they'll become depressed and will be forced to live boring, sad lives. Rabbits are very social animals and need proper attention and love just as much as they need food and water to stay healthy.
6. Brush it every once in a while to keep its fur neat and remove and loose hair. This is VERY important during seasonal changes when they start shedding and they lose their hair like mad. If you don't, they'll end up eating a lot of their own hair when cleaning themselves that will both disrupt their digestive systems, and even cause fatal blockage if its pretty bad.
7. Excersize is very important, whether or not its indoor or outdoor. Be sure to allow them to run around at least an hour every day freely or in a large contained area. If you have an area in your backyard that has some grass and loose dirt, you can get a large dog cage and give him a little playground area for them to fun and dig.
8. Rabbits will occasionally eat their own poop. Its nasty but its instinctual and necessary, as they use it to get vitamins and minerals that aren't absorbed in the first digestion process.
9. Because their teeth continuously grow just like fingernails and toenails. To prevent their teeth from getting too long and requiring a vet to manually grind them down (which is a horribly uncomfortable and disturbing thing to see), be sure to get hard, crunchy things for it to chew on. You can get crunchy treats (I use Vitacraft carrot sticks once or twice daily) and gnawing wood blocks at your pet store.
10. Similarly, their toenails need to be attented to in a similar fashion. So long as they have a proper area and time to dig around one some rough but loose dirt, you shouldn't have to worry about it. However, if they do get too long as they sometimes do, be sure to get some animal fingernail clippers to keep them at medium length. Its VERY important to keep them trimmed as they run a very high risk of breaking their toes if they get too long by catching them on rocks or the grates on cages. I know this from personal experience because it happened to mine twice and it was exceptionally painful for him. One thing to remember when cutting their toenails is to NEVER cut them too short. Unlike human fingernails they have some small arteries and veins at the base, so if you but them too close to the base, it will both cause it extreme pain and will cause it to bleed. So always cut at medium length, and not short length. If you're too uncomfortable with it or your rabbit is too fidgety, then take it into your local vet and have it done.
11. If your rabbit is overly hyper and seems too tenacious and aggressive, you might want to consider getting it neutered. It will kill the seasonal "spring fever" and will cause him to mellow out quite a bit. There are health risks involved though, so be sure to talk with your vet about it. Be sure to make a decision while its still young, as its a really bad idea to do it once they're past puberty or adults.
12. Neighborhood cats are your rabbit's worst enemy. Rabbits are prey animals and cats will recognize this instantly. If you can train your own cat and rabbit to get along, but its essential that you keep an eye on your rabbit anytime its not completly enclosed outside. Since rabbits are fast they'll usually escape being killed for a few minutes so you have a small time window in case your attention gets diverted, but don't hesitate for a second to rescue him if you know something is going on as they'll tire out just like any animal does.
If you have any other questions, throw them on over.
Anyways, as a longtime proud owner of dwarf rabbits, here's some tips.
1. Fresh water, alfalfa hay, and food at all times.
2. There's various types of rabbit food out there that he might like and is better than the standard "green pellets". A good one to go with is one that features a good amount of the green pellets and also includes some dried fruit and vegetable chips with it. You can also suppliment with small amounts of oatmeal which many rabbits tend to like and helps their digestion.
3. Try to resist the temptation to feed your rabbit a lot of fresh vegies and fruits. If you give them too much they'll get upset stomachs and massive diarreah, which is both a major pain to clean up and just bad for your bunny. I usually feed mine a small piece of fresh vegies or fruit once every two or three days.
4. Make sure to change its litter at least once a week or every two weeks if its a large cage/hutch. It'll help prevent illness and just make things smell better. Also use paper based litter (looks like grey clumps) instead of pine chips as pine chips give off a chemical that can be harmful to them in the long term.
5. Be sure to pet it a lot and give it lots of love, especially when you've first got it. That will both build a strong emotional attachment with you and get it used to being touched by people. Don't just let it sit in a cage and look at it every once in a while, as they'll become depressed and will be forced to live boring, sad lives. Rabbits are very social animals and need proper attention and love just as much as they need food and water to stay healthy.
6. Brush it every once in a while to keep its fur neat and remove and loose hair. This is VERY important during seasonal changes when they start shedding and they lose their hair like mad. If you don't, they'll end up eating a lot of their own hair when cleaning themselves that will both disrupt their digestive systems, and even cause fatal blockage if its pretty bad.
7. Excersize is very important, whether or not its indoor or outdoor. Be sure to allow them to run around at least an hour every day freely or in a large contained area. If you have an area in your backyard that has some grass and loose dirt, you can get a large dog cage and give him a little playground area for them to fun and dig.
8. Rabbits will occasionally eat their own poop. Its nasty but its instinctual and necessary, as they use it to get vitamins and minerals that aren't absorbed in the first digestion process.
9. Because their teeth continuously grow just like fingernails and toenails. To prevent their teeth from getting too long and requiring a vet to manually grind them down (which is a horribly uncomfortable and disturbing thing to see), be sure to get hard, crunchy things for it to chew on. You can get crunchy treats (I use Vitacraft carrot sticks once or twice daily) and gnawing wood blocks at your pet store.
10. Similarly, their toenails need to be attented to in a similar fashion. So long as they have a proper area and time to dig around one some rough but loose dirt, you shouldn't have to worry about it. However, if they do get too long as they sometimes do, be sure to get some animal fingernail clippers to keep them at medium length. Its VERY important to keep them trimmed as they run a very high risk of breaking their toes if they get too long by catching them on rocks or the grates on cages. I know this from personal experience because it happened to mine twice and it was exceptionally painful for him. One thing to remember when cutting their toenails is to NEVER cut them too short. Unlike human fingernails they have some small arteries and veins at the base, so if you but them too close to the base, it will both cause it extreme pain and will cause it to bleed. So always cut at medium length, and not short length. If you're too uncomfortable with it or your rabbit is too fidgety, then take it into your local vet and have it done.
11. If your rabbit is overly hyper and seems too tenacious and aggressive, you might want to consider getting it neutered. It will kill the seasonal "spring fever" and will cause him to mellow out quite a bit. There are health risks involved though, so be sure to talk with your vet about it. Be sure to make a decision while its still young, as its a really bad idea to do it once they're past puberty or adults.
12. Neighborhood cats are your rabbit's worst enemy. Rabbits are prey animals and cats will recognize this instantly. If you can train your own cat and rabbit to get along, but its essential that you keep an eye on your rabbit anytime its not completly enclosed outside. Since rabbits are fast they'll usually escape being killed for a few minutes so you have a small time window in case your attention gets diverted, but don't hesitate for a second to rescue him if you know something is going on as they'll tire out just like any animal does.
If you have any other questions, throw them on over.
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Fygee said:
Let it be known that this man is gay for rabbits.
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I eat rabbits... (and I'm serious, it's quite a popular dish in Spain).
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holy shit! too funny!Tron 2.0 said:Silly wabbit's you all,yes i'm that boerd.
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FeelGood said:
Even if they don't survive, you have a delicious treat!
Bobak said:
LOL Bobak.... backstory... well, I walked in, saw the dwarf rabbits, and was charmed over by them. I told my GF about it and she loves the little guys, so we went and bought the essentials, and then went back to buy Jackie. (Jackie Chan, bitch!) Jackie hops around and karate chops like a bad-ass mofo
As you can see, haters ransack this thread making a sad attempt at lame jokes, and in general, trying to ruin the thread. Thankfully Fygee was of great help and able to make this thread worthwhile.
Fygee, I knew some of what you wrote, but some others I wasn't quite so aware of. Thanks a lot, bro. Me and the GF going back to the pet store later today after she's out of work to pick up a second rabbit from the same litter. Rabbits are indeed social animals and a pair would be great for Jackie's social life... since me and the GF will not always be available to play with it (exams, school, family etc.)
We've had Jackie for 2 nights now, and each night we've let it run around in an enclosed area for an hour. It's really fun to watch Jackie go go go. And I'm not talking THAT kind of go.
Thanks for all the words of wisdom. I'll be sure to PM you in the future should I have any more questions or concerns or whatever.
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Steve said:LOL Bobak.... backstory... well, I walked in, saw the dwarf rabbits, and was charmed over by them. I told my GF about it and she loves the little guys, so we went and bought the essentials, and then went back to buy Jackie. (Jackie Chan, bitch!) Jackie hops around and karate chops like a bad-ass mofo
Excellent, not that's the kind of Steve-quality backstory I've come to expect!
So is this the same GF? (in a way, this thread wasn't complete without some mention of a woman... don't take that as a bad thing)
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Tom Wopat said:
thats just fuckin mean dude.
i cant wait for jackie to start humping the shit out of his brother or sister (whichever you happen to grab). they grow up so fast.
btw i saw a rabbit hump a turtle before. it was the happiest day of my life.
Bobak said:
n/p Bobak. Same GF. Everything is going fine and dandy. No "3-month wall"... we fight, but it's the natural kind of quarreling every normal couple take part in from time to time. We don't fight often and when we do, she gets over it quickly. I've tamed her well, she never bites.
OKAAAAAY, enough with that...
But yeh, best of all, she's NOT a gold digger. Those are the ladies to watch out for, men. Gold diggers equal trouble (most of the times)
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