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A Free Rabbit to a Good Home
Sometimes you just can't win.
This morning, Patty found a domestic rabbit abandoned inside the exclosure designed to keep rabbits and other voracious critters (you know who you are) out of the little butterfly garden in our side yard.
As a result, Robby the Rabbit — along with a cage of its own — is now available to a good home. Just e-mail me.
Any advice regarding this poor rabbit would also be appreciated.
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P.S. We used to also give them these little blocks of greenish hay and they also loved yogurt drops….we also gave them a type of vitamin but I forget now what it was. We used to let them have a time of the day in which they went out of the hutch and just hopped around and they were very territorial so they would go back into the hutch if we shooed them in but we had a fenced yard at that time.
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We used to raise and breed rabbits. DO NOT FEED THEM LETTUCE. They choke on it. You need water from a water bottle hung upside down into the cage or you have to allow them to eat regular grass. Our rabbits loved rabbit pellets, apples, carrots, and I used to basically hunt for their favorites in our yard which hasn’t been sprayed with pesticides. They loved branches from the azalea bushes and would leave little white sticks barely visible after munching on them. Ron used to build the hutches for them himself with little hinged doors that opened down onto the ground so they could get out. Put in a small chunk of untreated wood so they do not get snaggletoothed. Our rabbits stayed outside and loved it. They grew thick coats of fur in the winter and we made them a separate room in the roofed hutch with a thick box with blankets, etc. but they loved the winter.
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P.S. We used to also give them these little blocks of greenish hay and they also loved yogurt drops….we also gave them a type of vitamin but I forget now what it was. We used to let them have a time of the day in which they went out of the hutch and just hopped around and they were very territorial so they would go back into the hutch if we shooed them in but we had a fenced yard at that time.
Marianne Herrmann
We used to raise and breed rabbits. DO NOT FEED THEM LETTUCE. They choke on it. You need water from a water bottle hung upside down into the cage or you have to allow them to eat regular grass. Our rabbits loved rabbit pellets, apples, carrots, and I used to basically hunt for their favorites in our yard which hasn’t been sprayed with pesticides. They loved branches from the azalea bushes and would leave little white sticks barely visible after munching on them. Ron used to build the hutches for them himself with little hinged doors that opened down onto the ground so they could get out. Put in a small chunk of untreated wood so they do not get snaggletoothed. Our rabbits stayed outside and loved it. They grew thick coats of fur in the winter and we made them a separate room in the roofed hutch with a thick box with blankets, etc. but they loved the winter.