Baby bunnies!

[Miss Z]

Your bunnies are very sweet! I used to keep bunnies, and i know how fun they are to keep!

I was comforted today when i saw that one of your bunnies is called Foxy, as you can see in my avatar, i recently lost my beautiful smoke pearl cross syrian hamster, and her name was Foxy . Thanks for reminding me of her today

[snarkfeathers]

Hi everyone, thanks for all the positive feedback! I would love to share more pics but someone (my hubby) dropped our camera...grrr...
money's tight...so first I will get Shakes fixed and then the camera! Might be a few weeks...probably too late for this litter but I will definately post pics of the next litter...maybe put something on Flikr.

These babies are sooooo unbelievable adorable! They are so active now, it won't be long until they get out of the nest box! There is one we call Lightning because he has a little lightning bolt stripe but otherwise he takes after Shakes - black with white band and blaze. The other three are agouti with white bands and two of them have tiny white stars. We've dubbed them, Flash, No-tail, and Bighead (no star). Lightning is timid but curious, Flash is sweet and curious, No-tail is just sweet, and Bighead is ballsy. Lightning is my hubby's fave and I like Flash the most...so looks like we might keep two. I wonder though...what happens when the next litter is just as precious...do we keep two more...? hmm................
How many is too many?

We just moved into this house (our first house) a couple months ago, and have lots of plans for their patio. They have an enclosed porch, the brick patio and a dirt area with trees right now but we want to put in a grassy strip and plants for them to munch on. I also want some flowers or an herb garden in the back but I know they will eat everything! So I can maybe put stuff in pots or build raised beds or tall topiary herbs like bay and rosemary... but I don't know if I have the patience for that! Any ideas?

[snarkfeathers]

your Foxy was beautiful! what a gorgeous colour!

What is the difference between hampsters and other rodents? I don't think we have hamsters in NZ.

Tia Maria is so cute (and great name!)

We lost our first darling ratty, Ratty, last year and it was so sad. Only a few days later we were at our pet store and they told us about this young rat they had that someone had brought back because they "didn't have enough time for her." So now we have Padmé.

We have a hard time with friends and relatives that hate rats and don't understand why we want to keep them or what wonderful pets they can be.
People hear "rat" and think of big scruffy diseased sewer rats. I think we need to start a campaign...change the name or something. Prunes are dried plums, rats can be....i dunno...mini-dogs? They're affectionate and smart and can learn tricks like dogs. Or maybe...Hand-dogs. Any ideas?

Most of my life i've had horses and cats as pets...now i have rabbits and rats. And I love ALL of them. I guess a pet is a pet. I want guinea pigs and birds next...this IS an addiction isn't it? Does anyone else go to the pet store or wherever and just stare for hours (or until hubby drags you away)?

[Miss Z]

your Foxy was beautiful! what a gorgeous colour!

What is the difference between hampsters and other rodents? I don't think we have hamsters in NZ.

Hamsters are sort of like little mice, but they have very short tails and have a much more rounded figure than other rodents. It's hard to describe how different they are, but if you saw a mouse and a hamster next to each other then you'd see a very obvious difference

Thanks, Foxy was a very pretty girl, you can't really tell from those pics, but she was a medium-haired hamster, and with smoke pearl in her, was luxoriously soft. We lost her to an internal tumour in January and she was just a little over a year old, I still miss her terribly

We have a hard time with friends and relatives that hate rats and don't understand why we want to keep them or what wonderful pets they can be.
People hear "rat" and think of big scruffy diseased sewer rats. I think we need to start a campaign...change the name or something. Prunes are dried plums, rats can be....i dunno...mini-dogs? They're affectionate and smart and can learn tricks like dogs. Or maybe...Hand-dogs. Any ideas?

YES!!! That annoys me so much! Rats are intelligent, playful, cuddly, cute, clean.... i could go on forever, and yet they've been burdened with this stereotype of a mangy smelly animal. I think people really need correcting on this, and Tia has helped me do this. So far, i think we've converted about 10-15 people who would never have even looked at a rat to the joys of holding one and letting her climb all over you! She knows about 20-ish commands, so that proves rats are intelligent, and she's got the funniest little personality! She's a doll Yes, you're right, rats are a little like mini dogs !

[dab_20]

Well, I have bred a couple litters before. How old are the bunnies? If their eyes just opened... I'm guessing 1 1/2-3 weeks? The one without a tail I've never heard of... maybe he's just got a small one that you can't see as well.

Make SURE you seperate the bunnies male from females at 12 weeks of age. They can get each other pregnant. Since the female is pregnant again, do NOT let the male rabbit near the female. Rabbits can get re-pregnant and have 2 litters that are 2 different ages inside her.

Good Luck, and if you have anymore questions, please PM me!