Abandoned Bunny Advice needed

Lspacehopper · 24-03-2007, 19:39

Okay...we've started an adoption centre at my PAH (all to have them eventually) and a lady bought 2 rabbits in to us that she saw being dumped in carrier bags in woodland near her home. They are 2 females in very good condition. We've guessed they're around 1 year old and they are quite big girls. They get on well together apart from the odd squabble and humping session. As they're obviously quite happy together, ideally I would like them to be rehomed together, but this might not be possible (would have to be a very large hutch). Would it be wrong/unfair to split them up if someone is prepared to take one and can't take both?
What's the opinion of the bunny lovers on here?
Personally I don't want to split them, but some of the girls are umming and aahing as to what's for the best.

shihtzumad · 24-03-2007, 22:52

awww. i would say what you are saying leave them together, they have probably been brought up together and found in nasty circumstance's, together, how can people sleep at night knowing what they have done.

Hope they find a loving home, what they deserve, please keep us informed. Do u charge for adoption, i thinks its a good idea what you have started.

Lspacehopper · 24-03-2007, 22:58

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Originally Posted by shihtzumad

awww. i would say what you are saying leave them together, they have probably been brought up together and found in nasty circumstance's, together, how can people sleep at night knowing what they have done.

Hope they find a loving home, what they deserve, please keep us informed. Do u charge for adoption, i thinks its a good idea what you have started.

Hi, thanks for the reply. You're thinking what I'm thinking about keeping them together

We ask people for a donation that goes to the charitable foundation. It gets ploughed back in to local partnership charities.

I'll let you know about the rabbits. Apparently there are a couple of people interested in giving them a home although one person replied sarcastically when the donation was mentioned. That gets my back up and makes me wonder if someone thinks they can just have a 'cheap' rabbit.

shihtzumad · 25-03-2007, 09:08

although one person replied sarcastically when the donation was mentioned. That gets my back up and makes me wonder if someone thinks they can just have a 'cheap' rabbit.

If they are defo intrested in the rabbits, surely they would pay the adoption fee, am on the look out for a hutch, my girls want a rabbit, we keep going in pah, and they are some beautiful rabbits.

baileys_mum · 25-03-2007, 09:10

poor girlies, have you thought about rabbit rehome?

GrinderBloke · 25-03-2007, 12:28

In my experience adult does rarely live peacefully together, even if spayed (Doubtful that these two are) and from the same litter. In my opinion they would be better of homed with a buck, after being spayed.

When you say big are you talking French Lop size?

sooz22 · 25-03-2007, 14:28

I have found does esp. mother daughter relations to live together reasonably harmoniously once spayed- I would certainly recommend that new owners have them spayed if you are unable to do this yourself.

I have a pair of hard to homers here, mum and girl, and am unsure of whether to split them but they are not fighting so I feel it would be unfair to do so. At the same time Muffins behaviour is seriously diminishing both their chances of being rehomed

MARY POPPINS · 25-03-2007, 14:37

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Originally Posted by sooz22

I have found does esp. mother daughter relations to live together reasonably harmoniously once spayed- I would certainly recommend that new owners have them spayed if you are unable to do this yourself.

I have a pair of hard to homers here, mum and girl, and am unsure of whether to split them but they are not fighting so I feel it would be unfair to do so. At the same time Muffins behaviour is seriously diminishing both their chances of being rehomed

Just to let you know, the two girls I got from sooz, live lovely together now,
they took a while to settle, but they dont fight just seem to spend the days grooming each other,

They both love to be stroked, but only one likes being picked up,
so I just respect her wishes and leave her be.

sooz22 · 25-03-2007, 14:46

Glad to here they are doing OK.

katkin · 25-03-2007, 15:05

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Originally Posted by sooz22

I have found does esp. mother daughter relations to live together reasonably harmoniously once spayed- I would certainly recommend that new owners have them spayed if you are unable to do this yourself.

I have a pair of hard to homers here, mum and girl, and am unsure of whether to split them but they are not fighting so I feel it would be unfair to do so. At the same time Muffins behaviour is seriously diminishing both their chances of being rehomed

We used to have 2 does and they were like you describe but got on much better when spayed. I love bunnies, but they are not an option now we have the daft Dobe- she used to get overexcited if she saw our last rabbit outside and it really upset me that we couldn't bring her indoors after we got the mutt in case she tried to get at her...fortunately, a friend offered to give thumper a loving new home and she became a house bunny which is a much nicer way to keep rabbits, so long as you have somewhere safe they can live/roam. We tried it with our first one (long before we had a mutt) and all worked well until she found the telephone cable on the new phone...oops. Supervised indoors only after that.

Lspacehopper · 25-03-2007, 22:21

Bit of an update. The two girls went to a nice family today. They have a lovely enclosed back garden and purchased one of our biggest hutches to go with the large run they have just made. The family will book them in for a health check at the vets and get their vaccinations and plan to get them spayed. Hopefully things will go well. We estimated their ages to be approx 1 year old.
We also adopted out a beautiful agouti Lionhead today. We named her Leoni. She's 13 weeks old. The lady who adopted her currently has a male who's due to be neutered and she'll get Leoni spayed and try to integrate them.

It's nice to see them go to kind people

Now we have 2 nethy crosses to rehome and they've both been neutered which is a bonus.

We took in a rabbit who was pregnant and she gave birth to 8 kittens the other day. Unfortunately 2 died, but the other 6 are doing well, so fingers crossed all works out there

Lspacehopper · 25-03-2007, 22:24

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Originally Posted by GrinderBloke

In my experience adult does rarely live peacefully together, even if spayed (Doubtful that these two are) and from the same litter. In my opinion they would be better of homed with a buck, after being spayed.

When you say big are you talking French Lop size?

Not quite as big, but they could be heading for it. It's been handy to point out to people how big rabbits can actually get, expecially when they think they can put them into a poxy, tiny hutch.

katkin · 26-03-2007, 11:05

aah! glad to hear you got the 2 bunnies reohmed so quickly. Trouble is, so many people get them thinking they will be easy to look after and then find the whole idea of cleaning up and giving them a decent quality of life too much like hard work. The new animal welfare act should improve things (she says) - then again, it might make more bunnies turn up as rescue once owners realise they actually have to care for them properly...

Nice work with the rescue Lspacehopper, keep up the good work xK