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E got a nice surprise when we got back from The Gambia. Unbeknown to her, I'd been out and bought a rabbit and hutch and left it with a friend, who brought them down to the flat the day before we got back. She leapt a few inches off the ground when she saw it, and I think I made a pretty good choice.

She decided to call her rabbit Toffee, and they've spent the last few days getting to know one another. Despite the fact that I've spent the last couple of years regularly threatening to go round and eat fundamentallyflawed's rabbit, I've been taken in by her cute cuddliness as well and regularly pop out for a chat, armed with a few fresh dandelion shoots as a treat. E sits and watches telly with Toffee on her lap, and we have a bit of fun chasing her around the dining room table when it's time for her to go back in the hutch.

Pics will follow when I have them

I'm glad you're enjoying the company of your new 'family member'.

You'd better go wireless though, from what I've heard from other people, rabbits do like to nag at everything.

VC's rabbit tries to bonk her chickens!!

Note to self: Must buy chicken.

Maybe that's why rabbit tastes like chicken...

Awww, that's really lovely.

Rabbits are great pets. I had a ferret for a few years. I think they are quite similar in some ways, except that rabbits don't stink quite as much.

Anyone got a recipe for rabbit stew?

If your serious Venus (which I doubt) then yes I have. I hsve several servings in my outside freezer!

Many years ago, a neighbour of our's had a huge rabbit; which always lived indoors and was fully house trained.

The family used a new electric cooker; but had an old fashioned fireplace with built in oven. The oven door was removed and the rabbit had a bed in there - right beside the cosy warm coal fire.

We had a rabbit for years, YomYom, he loved dandelion leaves too, and carrots with tops!

He certainly didn't stink, and won't, if you clean the cage out regular

Awww you're making me want one now!

You chase E around the dining room table? What larks!

Rabbits are luvverly, I've had some as pets (and as dinner too).

When I lived in Plymouth the downstairs flat had some, and on nice days I'd open the back door and they'd hop up the fire escape and come and frolic in the kitchen. Until they bit my girlfriend of the time. Then I only let them in when she was out...

Rich, I had two bunnies as a child, but was devastated one morning to find they had died of fright from fireworks. In those days 'house' rabbits were unheard of. My son had a house rabbit for a while and loved it. It was very comical. My next door neighbour had one for a long time and it used to *thump* at me every morning when I went out to feed the birds. I think he was hungry, and his family did not rise as early. I am sure he expected me to feed him at the same time.

Look forward to 'bunny' photos, as well as holiday snaps when you have time.

Websailor

I've had a few rabbits. The best was the first, a lop eared dwarf rabbit, a beautiful brown colour with greyish brown markings on his nose and around his paws and haunches. His name was Squonk.

He was a house rabbit (and yes, B'El, he seemed to love snacking on cables - i had to "borrow" cable protectors from the Army in the end). Like my does now, he would follow me around the house ( was only accompanied if I wasn't around, Squonk used to run around a bit to check first before he deigned to do that though)

he used to thump in the morning when I fed him, and again when I got home from work (until I started working mental shifts, then he just thumped at feeding times)

He died of cancer, though

Aww, how sweet!
You've brought back happy childhood memories for me, too. We had a rabbit when I was young, too. She wasn't a house rabbit, either; during winter when it was too cold to leave her outdoors, we brought her hutch into the basement, otherwise she stayed in her hutch outdoors. We used to keep plastic buffet trays under to catch all of her by-products, and what an unpleasant job that was. Wish we'd known then that rabbits could be litter box trained and allowed to hop around the house!

She died when she was only a couple of years old. I've always felt that it was somehow my fault. She'd hopped out of the yard and under a neighbor's car, and I had to pull her out from underneath. I've always thought I scared her to death.

She was such a sweet bunny, though. She'd let me dress her up in a sweater and take her for rides in an old umbrella stroller. She loved eating cuttings from the flowers in the back yard. I absolutely adored her!

As an aside, about the "snacking" on cables... I worked in the automotive repair industry for several years (high school and college), and people were always bringing in vehicles that they stored during winter to have the electrical wiring replaced. Rodents eat the insulation in the electrical wires.

I'm not sure if they use the same materials in Europe or in the UK, but here in the US, they coat the insulation for electrical wiring with a vegetable-based oil, which helps prevent it from drying out. Apparently it's quite appetizing to rodents.

aww bless

I used to have two rabbits and chickens but we also had a visitor known as Mr fox! The rabbits and chickens were lovely. I have a gold now and a Golden Retriever.

Awwwwwwwwwwwwww!!!!!

What a lovely thing to do, Skanky, you soppy ol' thing!

are indeed lovely pets. You might consider getting a guinea-pig as companion, if Toffee seems to become over attention seeking toward humanoids; they co-exist very well together & obviously can't breed, so no huge Bunny extended family ti find homes for or eat!

Ferrets are just so ....i may be rather weird, but i actually liked the musky smell of Felix...he had baths regularly though ,which he was fine about: just did a "Ferret war dance"!...their toilet habits are much nicer than ....but i doubt ferret & bunny would get along: natural enemies!

(Please don't send me photo file Skanky: much as i'd love to see the pics, Beast simply can't handle pics, videos, etc, but i may be able to link from on here)

zdt

Aww, isn't he sweet, ladies?

Major plus points to you for that, I'm sure.