My Long Lost Bunnies
@sherryeb (580)
Duncan, Arizona
October 15, 2015 10:48pm CST
I decided to get a couple of white bunnies to raise as house pets.I was told they could be trained like a cat to do their business in a litter box. I spent much of my time picking them up and putting them in the litter box trying to teach them to use the litter box.They did not cooperate with me. I finally got a large cage and put paper, water, food(pellets) into it and would take them outside to hop around in the grass. I eventually had to move, so a relative took them, and when she left them out of their cage, in her back yard, to get exercise an owl swooped down an picked one up and flew away with it.Unfortunately, shortly after, one of the kids left the other rabbit out in the yard and their pet dog killed the rabbit. Nature is what it is.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
16 Oct 15
Poor bunnies, I prefer to watch the wild ones in our yard, they are very funny.
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@poehere (15123)
• French Polynesia
19 Oct 15
@sherryeb How sweet. I'm glad you feed them. I learned something interesting about rabbits. I use to always feed mine carrots too. Then one day a friend who raises rabbits told me to not feed them so many carrots because it has sugar in them and it isn't so good for them. I was sort of shocked to hear this one and then I went and checked on it and he was right. So now I only give them carrots once a month.
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@crazyhorseladycx (39503)
• United States
16 Oct 15
my sister-in-law'd a lop-ear she raised 'n swore was litter box trained...not. it still left lil 'pebbles' all o'er the place. how sad that those lil rabbits suffered such a fate. indeed, tis nature but when raised 's pets they lose some'f their natural instincts.
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@sherryeb (580)
• Duncan, Arizona
19 Oct 15
I agree with you. They had never really been loose without supervision by me. I guess, they really did not have the instinct to hide from predators.
@poehere (15123)
• French Polynesia
19 Oct 15
When I took my first one from my friend he told me I can keep him in my home. I said no way. He said no it;s true if you teach them were to go they always go in the same place I didn't believe him and preferred to keep mine in a cage in the yard. But in their cage they do go to the same sport each time to make their toilet.
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@crazyhorseladycx (39503)
• United States
19 Oct 15
@poehere yepperz, they're purty tidy in their cage coz who wants a dirty sleepin' place? 
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@ricki_911 (21625)
• Toronto, Ontario
25 Dec 15
That is rather sad, and rather irresponsible. Poor rabbits and getting such a horrible ending. I assume they were not spayed or neutered which would probably be why they were hard to train. I have had rabbits for years and never had an issue.
Poor bunnies.