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Lucy and Moose got adopted! Shadow is shy  Milo, less so   Finally a decent shot of Jareth  Didn't get a shot of Truffles
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Adorable. It's funny, I was cleaning up after a bunch of rabbits yesterday because someone else had to spend half an hour trimming and brushing Norma. How do you keep up with an Angora?
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Jan 27, 2020 17:53
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Anybody going to their regional Bunfest this year? Mid-Atlantic Bunfest is March 7th in Richmond, and I'm going to volunteer.  I was helping the shelter sort their merch. (Very popular battleship-shaped one not pictured)
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Jan 30, 2020 22:37
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You move 16 tons and whaddaya get You get too tired to write a parody No seriously I just stacked exactly 16 tons of hay Remora posted:excuse me can these battleships be sent elsewhere in the country tia 
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Jan 31, 2020 03:57
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drat, you're doing the Lord's work.
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Feb 4, 2020 17:02
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Yes, I didn't know what to say, but it sounds like she had a good run. I hope I get 10 years with my next rabbits.
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Feb 14, 2020 22:31
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I don't know how they manage to do that.
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Feb 24, 2020 17:24
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I was going to plug Bunfest again by way of all the pictures I took at the shelter last weekend. But I just lost one of my pet chickens and don't have the energy. I'm still really looking forward to it! We filled a trailer full of bunny playhouses and swag last weekend. I was also happy to learn several bunnies were adopted out over the past couple weeks! https://midatlanticbunfest.com/
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Mar 7, 2020 04:08
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I should have taken this shot of Bert and Ernie after I put up the new lighting panels.
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Mar 7, 2020 04:15
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They do that every time we clean their pen. This guy gets it: 
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Mar 7, 2020 22:02
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[bunfest] Rosebud  Tried to hop into the adjacent guinea pig run, very bad  Strong candidate for Biggest Ears Prize  Strong candidate for Pet and Owner That Most Resemble Each Other Prize  Bunpack  Cannot confirm if bun was boss  Princess  Like 20 people wanted to adopt these boys  Callie is tired  [/bunfest]
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Mar 11, 2020 14:19
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Well, like, what are her demands
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Mar 11, 2020 14:30
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If you're not really old or immunocompromised go to the loving store and buy lettuce
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Mar 12, 2020 23:51
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Use the self checkout
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Mar 13, 2020 06:32
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poverty goat posted:Questions:
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Mar 16, 2020 15:41
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D34THROW posted:Those are some pissed-off-looking lops. What'd you do, steal their poops?  
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Mar 23, 2020 15:02
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The thing is, while I know a lot of people advise against it, I've seen dozens of rabbits all using this system and never found a single one with sore hocks, and I'm checking their feet every time I move them or clean their pen. (In practice, Bert and Ernie's boxes are covered with a thin layer of hay over the mesh anyway. I'm not sure what Ok means by "free floating," but the mesh rack has feet and sits into the base of the tray so that there's not more than a centimeter for the rack to move in any direction.
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Mar 26, 2020 21:27
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The boys were spending most of their time under their playhouse, digging in the corner. So I moved it a few inches away from the corner and put a dig box behind it, full of torn scraps of the rug they already tore up. Bert dragged it out of the corner so he could dig at the floor. I put a rock in it. Bert is strong enough to drag like half his body weight in rocks. I put two boxes in the corner with a rock in each box. That seems to work?
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Apr 21, 2020 14:36
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I use the cheap bulk stuff from Tractor Supply with newspaper on top.
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Apr 24, 2020 03:18
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I noticed that Bert & Ernie were pushing their pen outward so that they could sit on the hardwood instead of the carpet. So I got them some ceramic tiles! Bert has accepted the cooling embrace of the tile, but Ernie is still checking it out.
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Jun 11, 2020 18:29
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Is anyone else following the news about RHDV2 (rabbit hemmorrhagic virus)? Fortunately, there are no reported cases in VA yet, but that also means that it's not legal to import the vaccine.
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Jul 7, 2020 17:12
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You'll Coward Don't Even Eat Papaya
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Jul 28, 2020 19:02
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Adorable!
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Aug 7, 2020 17:46
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Ikea sells these collapsible carriers that are easy to keep in your trunk in case of emergency.
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Aug 16, 2020 18:34
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Yeah, don't risk RHV.
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Aug 27, 2020 02:30
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JerikTelorian posted:Fortunately by morning she ate most of what I left laying out and when I gave her a new treat she gobbled it down like her usual self; she then had a nice breakfast of some fresh greens and ate lots of the timothy hay I had laid out for her. When I called the vet they said it sounded like she rounded the corner, but I've been panicking over every ear twitch since Friday. Has anyone seen a transient event like this? Does it happen every now and again? Could it be a symptom of some underlying condition? Of course it had to happen over a long holiday weekend.
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Sep 8, 2020 21:30
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Give her a bowl of lettuce and a little bit of apple or carrot. Like just a tablespoon a day. Hard to say exactly since I can't tell the size of the rabbit, but don't overfeed sugary stuff. Hay should be like 80% of their diet. Keep it simple. Put the hay next to whatever kind of litter setup you've got. They like to sit and eat while they poop, so she won't poop everywhere.
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Sep 10, 2020 04:19
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Ernie has figured out that he can squeeze through the gap between the pen and the place where it hooks to the wall, if he believes in himself. He hasn't figured out that radio cords are dangerous and should be left alone if he wants to a) live and b) listen to Wendy Carlos and Cocteau Twins. So tonight I'm reinforcing the Bunny Jail.
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Oct 21, 2020 16:34
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Back when we were giving Dear Watson advice about the rabbit they found, it got me thinking about rabbit nutrition again. I was kind of obsessed with doing everything right when I first got Bert & Ernie. I spent a long time measuring out things by cup and tablespoon before I was comfortable eyeballing it. So Bert & Ernie are about 5 pounds put together. I give them 1/4 cup of pellets and 1 tablespoon of fruit, twice a day. That part's pretty straightforward. But greens are very relative. 4 cups of finely-chopped greens is much more than 4 cups of loose greens. Do any of y'all have any kind of disciplined system for it? Like, B/Ernie came with a packet saying 4 cups of greens, but when I ask the shelter she says, y'know, she basically eyeballs it. She also avoids Romaine in favour of green leaf lettuce because the green-to-white ratio is much better. I've stopped worrying about it as long as they appear to be eating plenty of hay, but I wonder if there's a better way. One thing I do still wish I had better information on is what kinds of greens are bad. There are wildly varying opinions out there on kale and spinach and their oxalate content. I've learned from experience that broccoli and Brussels sprouts should be occasional treats, but opinions on kale/spinach range from "basically poison" to "only a problem if they're the only greens you feed them for weeks." Halloween Jack fucked around with this message at 19:10 on Oct 23, 2020 |
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Oct 23, 2020 19:05
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drat, I wish Bernie were social enough to try to follow me around the house. We had this one rabbit at the shelter, Piper, who hated the broom and would attack it whenever her pen was swept out. Like, biting it and hanging on. I've never seen anything else like it. Last couple times I went to the shelter I didn't recognize any rabbit I remembered. Adoptions are through the roof! I did see like 8 baby Holland lops, though. They got saddled with a couple pregnant does. Didn't get any good pictures, though.
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Dec 18, 2020 19:01
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Delightful little black puddings.
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Dec 18, 2020 23:50
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I can't give mine a box or they'll never leave it. Gams 
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Jan 8, 2021 19:25
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Mine will just randomly try to do that every now and then despite having plenty of stuff to chew on and scratch at.
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Feb 4, 2021 14:51
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Justa Dandelion posted:First post on this site. Our bun is a good boy. That is all. Sassy Sasquatch posted:Proof.
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Feb 10, 2021 16:28
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Ok Comboomer posted:What I meant by crate bonding is when you put the two buns in a crate or hamper or dark box (ideally one where they cannot see or preferably smell you—or they will hate you for a bit. Some people even disguise their scent when they do it or try to leave the room, or get a friend to do it) and make them huddle with each other.
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What I mean by the crate bonding thing is: I was told they were liberated from some dumbfuck who kept them together in a cage the size of a shoebox. They've just taken a lot of work to come out of their shell and get comfortable with me, and they still don't run to me for scritches. They very rarely binky around, usually only when they think I'm not watching. They're very bonded and will spend about half their time laying on each other.
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Mar 2, 2021 16:15
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They have an enclosure here in our home office. I work from home 3 days a week, so that's three days I spend most of my time sitting next to them. I also like to sit in their enclosure until they realize I'm not a threat and start climbing me, but they're always hesitant. It's all baby steps.I'm working on "field trips" to let them run around the sunroom upstairs and the living room downstairs, but they always seem scared of new and unfamiliar places, so I don't do it as often as I'd like. I give them dried papaya chips or raisins before bed. Lately it's been raisins, since I buy papaya from the shelter and haven't been for several weeks. I don't use yogurt drops anymore. (Over the past month, I've had problems with my other pets. A raccoon killed two of my pet chickens, two weeks apart, so my weekends have been spent cleaning up after chickens living in my laundry room, fixing up the coop, and trapping a raccoon.)
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Mar 2, 2021 16:44
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RFC2324 posted:Huh, they are part of the daily meal at the shelter. Not as bulk or anything, just as a 'every rabbit gets a chunk' so I assumed they were good for teeth to chew on
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Mar 27, 2021 23:33
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Ok Comboomer posted:Just pop an ex pen (with the requisite libations and accessories) down in the sunroom/etc and leave ‘em there for like 6 hours (I put two ex pens together, btw, so there’s lots of space to run around and actually hop/etc). They come around. They always seemed scared and unhappy, but I really underestimated how much they took to it once they got used to it. I took them down this Wednesday, and this time they were running and jumping all over the place. I'm going to start doing this every week.
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Ok Comboomer posted:yeah. I think it’s really worth trying, because well-bonded rabbits are always so much happier than they were pre-bonding
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