Anyone have pet rabbits?

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I have two free roaming house rabbits who I love to death. One's a Mini Rex named Chloe and the other's an English Lop named Mugwumps. I love love love bunnies, they're such characters. They're so funny and get up to such trouble and they're so loving and sensitive. It can take a while for a bunny to form a bond to their owner, but once they trust them and develop that bond they're so wonderful. I love having to form that bond with them because it can be so challenging sometimes but the reward is so huge. I love bunnies!

Any other rabbit owners here?

I have a two year old mini lop named Ceres (after the proto-planet, yes). He is my favorite pet, I love him lots and lots and love playing with him and brushing him and feeding him and I don't even mind the smell of cleaning his potty (much..). He is not free to roam through the house, it cannot be made safe for him. But he has a very large indoor cage and an even huger outdoor fenced-in play area that he and I go to play in almost every day that it isn't cold out. He's a snuggly lap bunny, and often sits in my lap and I pet him while watching movies or reading a book.

It did take a while for my bunny to really bond to me, but he likes me better than food now, better than his pellets even. He'll ignore his food until he's had enough pettings and snuggles and until I walk away, it's very cute that he'd rather snuggly with me than eat no matter how tasty the food is. I love bunnies too, but I couldn't have a large bunny again. I like my bunny, he's fully grown and is just over 2 pounds, still very tiny and so, easy to keep indoors and easy to pick up and hold. I had another bunny when I was younger but he got too big to play with easily, and that was really sad.

I am planning on doing a cage expansion this summer when it's warm enough for him to stay in the outdoor pen for a day, to make his cage a two-story and taller so he can jump around more easily. And I want to build him a box so he can dig, because he can't dig in anything when it's too cold to go outside and I think he misses it a lot.

Rabbits are the most adorable animals! I plan on getting a white rabbit someday.

My brother and I used to have two pet rabbits. Mine was white with brown spots and I named him Dennis. My brother's was white with black spots and he named him Oreo. We bought the bunnies when they were older, so they were not used to human contact and would attack us whenever we tried to pet them or hold them. We eventually had to give them away.

But a funny thing happened after we gave them away. The new owner called my sister and informed her that Dennis was not a boy - he was actually a she, and Oreo had made her pregnant!

Even though Dennis and Oreo were challenging, I would love to give owning rabbits another chance. This time I would buy the rabbit when it was a baby so that I could make it used to human contact. I really want a Lop because their long ears are really cute.

Growing up,at one point my sister and I had two rabbits:mine was Zeus,a formerly mistreated albino male.My sister's was Wiggles, a cutey who wiggled when she jumped in the hair,hence the name. We mated them BAD IDEA,because poor Wiggles went through several litters and we had rabbits all over the yard,digging an underground tunnel system to freedom We successfully got most of babies adopted,but Wiggles ate some of them quite macabre for a teenager. We only rarely kept them in cages,so they were free bunnies, I am so anti caged animals.

I never owned a rabbit, but I remember my kindergarten teacher having a pet rabbit in her classroom.

Sometimes rabbits are just like that, slightly anti social and it doesn't really make a difference at what age you get them. I got my girl bun, Chloe, when she was only 2 months old and she's always been really shy around people. She's loving, but in her own way. She'll hop around me and investigate and sometimes rub her chin on me and steal my stuff, but often she won't let me pet her. She gets finicky. Your best bet would be to get a bigger rabbit like a Flemish Giant or an English lop. We got our English lop only a month ago when he was 6 months, and he warmed up to us right away.

Our baby (gotta love the ridiculously long ears ) :
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OMG doeintheheadlights! Your English Lop is soooo cuuuute!

+1 I love your baby!

I had two rabbits, when I was 5 years old, I had a female named Bunny and later when I was 23 years old, I had a male rabbit named Max. Bunny was the usual brown mix colored and Max was mostly white. Both of them grew into large rabbits but didn't live long. My step-father made me and my sisters get rid of our rabbits and later we learned that they had died not long after we had given them away.

I started studying to be a magician sometime after I got Max, I hadn't actually used him in a magic act, he was just one of my babies. But he became ill and died which broke my heart (I mourn for animals far more than I do humans). I was babysitting for some children at the time and everyone was always coming in and petting him so I believe he may have picked something up from one of us in the house. I was told that rabbits can do that. I had no idea, the thought that Max could become ill from being petted by people never crossed my mind. I felt so responsible and bad about it for the longest time.

The magician I was studying with had a daughter, Janet who also was a professional magician (mainly for children parties and shows) and she had two rabbits of her own. She liked to come into her father's studio when I came over to study and we would talked about magic and practice different things so I was learning from her as well.

I know how people are sensitive about animals being used in the entertainment field and I'm one of them but Janet's rabbits were never hurt in her acts/routines, they always had plenty of room/space to breath and move in the props, they were always in a well vented box, which were custom made. She would only do one trick with one of her rabbits at the end of her show for the children. It was the grand finale because almost all children love animals and rabbits look so soft and sweet to touch and pet.

My cats will be so jealous when I get another sweet adorable little bunny. I want to get a little dog, a cute little yappy one and I've always wanted a big fat white rat too. I'll have a traveling menagerie.

Rabbits are so fragile, and they hide their symptoms well so often they go from totally fine to on death's door in a matter of minutes. My Dutch boy died in the fall and he went from perfectly healthy to dead in less than a day for no apparent reason. It's one of the things I hate about rabbits.

I've never had a pet rabbit, but we have (literally) thousands of them this time of year around the house outside. Once in awhile, a mother will leave a few babies on the wrong side of a fence or ditch, and they'll sit there yelling, and my wife or I will have to go help them get back across. We also have to be ultra-careful in driving in & out of the ranch, and to watch our cats so as not to have a tragedy.

Charles

A neighbour gave me a white one and a black one when I was about 8, the black one escaped and I had the white one until she stopped breathing when I was about 15.

oh man.. I had pet rabbits when I was a kid. well, it started out as one pet rabbit, a 'male' that birthed about 8 little bunnies soon after 'he' came home with me. Then the baby bunnies escaped, divided and multiplied and conquered the garden. Soon my parent's forest property was populated with a whole hoard of very pretty patterned wild bunnies, some of them slightly deformed from inbreeding.

I had a rabbit when I was five/six years of age. He 'committed suicide' by jumping off of the second story of his cage, proceeding to break his leg and be 'put to sleep.' It was quite sad; he was soft.

Mugwumps? ha ha cool sounds like a creature from Harry Potter

I had a Brown and white rabbit called Kicker, It got out of the backyard and got run over by a car,
damn I loved that bloody rabbit!