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3 comments:
Cute. My girls want a bunny. How much trouble are they?
Rabbits are wonderful pets. They are very practical for single and/or apartment living because they can be left in their cage for many hours at a time and require little space. They are also very cheap.
But I strongly urge you not to get a pet rabbit because you live in a feline household. No matter how carefully you restrict access between your rabbits and cat, at some point, they will be loose together. And in that moment, your rabbits will die.
When my wife and I selected our dog, our foremost concern was rabbit safety. So we choose a small dog that couldn't kill a rabbit in a single bite and a breed that was not raised to hunt (Papillons have been lap dogs since the 1500s).
Hyzenthlay and Inlehain get at least 15 minutes of Out of Cage Time in the morning and evening. We block off the living room with a pet gate so that Sunny cannot get in. He'll spend the whole time watching the rabbits avidly from the other side. After a time, we shoo the rabbits back into the cage and open the gate.
Sometimes we get our timing wrong and Sunny is loosed upon the rabbits. Fortunately, he is not bred to hunt, so he just wants to play with them. But rabbits are fragile and cannot take rough puppy play (for comparison: 13% of a cat's body mass is bone, 8% for a rabbit). Sunny runs over and begins pawing at them, licking their faces, and chasing them. But he is a small dog and that buys us enough time to grab him.
Such is not always the case with dogs. We once took the bunnies over to the house of a family with an elderly golden retriever. The golden perked up with energy not seen in years and did his best to hunt them.
From what I have read, cats cannot get past a hunting instict for rabbits. So I would never introduce a rabbit into a cat household, or any house with a dog whose ancestors were hunters.
Thanks for the information.
We may try a "bunny overnight" field trip for the aforesaid bunny. Little kitty can't be bothered to wake up to eat -- and she's about 5 pounds. I'll watch them very carefully.
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