Pet Bunny

[Liz]

This is my bunny for another week until my boyfriend turns 16, at which point it becomes his bunny.

The bunny is a Dwarf named is Alfonso. We aren't sure if it's a girl or a boy yet (its fluff is so dang long it's hard to tell).

http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j208/luvluvluvluvluv/bunny7.jpg

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My boyfriend, with his newly acquired SHORT hair, holding the bunny.
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So far the bunny tolerates being picked up, except for when he is outside, in which case he RUNS. I've only had him a week so we don't have much of a bond yet.

[Blueiz]

Bunnies typically do not like to be picked up..always support his full body when you do pick him up...

Very cute!

Blue

[mee-mee]

dont they have bunny leashes. i thought i saw one once on animal planets funniest animals. and please please DO NOT pick the bunny up by the ears. it really hurts and yes just like blueiz dais when you pick up a bunny or rabbit they are to be held by supporting the whole body. but when they are babies you can pick them up by the scruff. learned that in vet school. so good luck with your new bunny or his. and watch the bunny grow fast. you can also teach them some tricks too saw that on funniest animals on animal planet (the only cable channel i watch besides discover and national geographic and the learning channel and the speed channel

[lazyNode]

If you hold the rabbit in your arms like a baby, with the head slightly lower than it's feet, it will hypnotise the rabbit and it can be stroked to sleep.
But I should also warn, if the bunny suddenly wakes up from slumber - let it go! Cause it's most likely wanting to go to toilet. Having hot bunny pee on your top is not a fun experience.

[Mgamer20o0]

i have a pet bunny.... and thats all i can say about her without getting into trouble.....

[dixienut]

this bunny isn't a dwarf.. it seems to be a mix of perhaps a jersy wooly and possably maybe a dwarf..it's rather large, for both if its a male and that size you should see the testicals underneath on each side of the opening.. if its still young then its a mix of larger breeds like full size angora and a meat type rabbit.. the proper way to pick them up is to grab the scruff of skin at the neck very firmly and at the same time put your other hand cupped to their bottom above the tail and scoop them up till their are upright and slightly curved to keep them from kicking and snapping their spine.. and all at the same time place then against your stomach.. to sex them do the same thing and put their butt,( above the tail on the last part of their back) still holding their scruff, then put your other hand on their private part , gentally on the top push back the skin if a male (buck) it will look worm like, if female( doe) similar, but if you push back enough ( it dosent hurt them) if female will have a slit in the center , and not as long.. if unsure wait a few weeks and repeat it gets easier as they grow older, i know its a bit personal but its the only way.. some will allow being picked up this way others will get used to it.. you must pick them up this way always to be safe... and get them used to getting all their feet messed with so when it gets older you can trim the nails.. they grow really fast and need trimmed often.
in case you wondered i'm a farmer and have raised and have shown regestered netherland dwrafs, jersy woolies, holland and mini lops and dutch, mini rex, dwarf hoto's,english angoras. had well over 100 head of brood does...so i've been at it a while.

dwarfs of most smaller breeds are at the smallest 2lbs to 3-4lbs. if larger breeds 5-12+ lbs.
larger breeds have ears 4-6 inches and dwarf 2-4in.

you have to make them tame by a lot of picking up and petting.. sit on floor with treats only animal type. don't use human goodies with sugar, they love it but it will kill them in large amounts., they can't process these. they will love climing up on your legs and such, i had an angora too tame, she would jump on the couch and sleep with anyone who was lying there . plus she also would ride in toy trucks and push them herself..like a skateboard.. they are very smart, and rotten..ha ha.

[DaisyTattoo]

Bunnies can be scruffed, in order to pick them up, but to hold you need to make sure their feet are touching something. That is the key ;)

[Liz]

I've heard the best method to pick them up is one hand supporting their chest and the other under their feet, that's the method I've been using.

So if you pick a bunny up a lot it will get used to it? I've been reading that the only way to get a bunny attached to you is to lay on the floor with it (so you are less intimidating).

I hope this bunny stays smallish. I don't like huge rabbits.... it's cute small. I hope it's a jersey wooly and not a young angora. My boyfriend's mom knows a lot about bunnies so we'll wait for her to sex it, and if she says it's too young to tell I guess it's a young angora mix or whatever.


It was between this one, a mini lop, and a grey and white lion's head, but the mini lop ran away when I went to pick it up, and the lion's heads I read lose their fluff as they age (except around the head).

[Liz]

More pics.

http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j208/luvluvluvluvluv/bunny11b.jpg

http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j208/luvluvluvluvluv/bunny12b.jpg

http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j208/luvluvluvluvluv/bunny10b.jpg

[dixienut]

it seems to start looking like a jersy woolie.

[mee-mee]

but it is still sooooooooooooooooo cute...:dance2:

[Dangerdoll]

how pretty she is!!