Bunnies!

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One of the people I work with told me that her mom/sisters were getting rid of all their rabbits and she wondered if I (or, more correctly, Myria) would be interested in any of them. They were a 4-H family and were big into rabbis, so they had quite a few different breeds.

My first reaction was to say no, but then I found out that not only were the rabbits free, but they came with reasonably priced rabbit cages/hutches. This was necessary because I was not looking for house pets. Which is the reason that I didn't take any of the cute, little lop-eared ones that she was giving away -- those would have been in house pets long before the cold weather set in.

What I did take was two palominos. Palominos are a large breed 8 - 10 lbs each and while they are very docile, they are *not* house pets. They are beautiful. This page tells all about the breed and this picture is stupidly cute. However, not a house pet.

That said, the rabbits arrived yesterday and the hutches are due up this weekend. Since they are currently living in nice but hutchless cages, they are currently sitting on the floor in Wil's workroom. It's snowing tonight and will be well below freezing for the next couple. I'm really hoping the hutches get here soon.

*Real* soon.

Comments

[donnickcottage.livejournal.com]

I'm always curious about people who get rabbits. If not for the meat, and not as a house pet (though I don't get that either lol) what purpose do they serve beyond an occasional grin? Not that anyone can grin too much, but it seems a lot of work for little reward.

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The people we got them from showed them. It seems that there is a fairly substantial business in the breeding and showing of rabbits. This was a 4-H family with three girls in the program, so they had quite a few different breeds of rabbits, all pedigreed and show quality. The two I have even have papers attesting to their pure-bred standing. I figure they can't be that much different than breeding and showing cats.

Quite a few of the rabbits they had were the cute, little, lap-eared types that can be made into a trained house pet. For me, however, these bunnies fall under the "Meat Rabbit" category. Not them, specifically, but any little bunnies that will come along will all be named things like "Lunch", "Dinner" and "Stew". Rabbits are a quick and relatively inexpensive way to help with food bills, right up there with raising chickens.