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Rabbits are like, special pets xD
With our rabbit, we litter trained him EASY. Just find where it likes to pee, set up a litter box, and presto! We had my guinea pig trained to do that till the two untrained ones came in. Then Coca was like: "Eh, peer pressure. I'll just go pee on top of this little wooden hut that mom bought for like 10 bux."
Anywho
REMEMBER to clean the cage!!!! One of my friend's had a bunny, they forgot to clean it's cage and stuff, and it got killed from like worms or something. I don't remember the story, but the dirty cage killed it ._.
DONT GO ALFALFA FOR BUNNIES!!!
for that matter, not for rodents.
It can give them digestion issues, like deformed pellets or something. we get Timothy Hay, one of those largeish bales. We take one of those storage buckets and fill it with litter, and the other with hay. There's so much hay that we go a month or so before we have to go and buy more.

Usagi, the bunny we had, was in a horrible condition >.<
He was shedding, and after a while, I was able to get all the shedded hair off his eye. Yes. He had HAIR stuck onto his eye. His name had been Fluffy and he had been kept in a garage. Wire bottom cage and one SMALL scrap of fleece. Man, did he CHANGE after we had him xD

I'm not sure how alike Guinea pigs and Rabbits and Hamsters are as far as nutrition is concerned....
Stay away from lettuce, the water content.

Rabbits are special pets. With the exception of my one coworker (who hadn't been told to pick up rabbits with their back legs facing her and got her arm all scratched up), it seems all anyone has to do is hold one to get hooked. They're just so..indescribably lovable. =D Heart melting.

We've had a guinea pig (she passed away this year, in fact). She wasn't litter trained, really, but she didn't have specific spots in her cage where she preferred to go and sometimes moved her poo around if it was in the wrong spot. x-x I can't blame her. I'd want designated spots for my messes, too.

Alfalfa isn't bad for rabbits, you just have to watch their quantity of intake. With rabbit pellets, the first ingredient is usually alfalfa, so they benefit from fiber-heavy and less protein-rich hay along with it (though their pellets should be high-fiber, too). =D Timothy is usually recommended because, while it has nutrients fiber, it's not as rich as most other hays. I have a horse, too, so the hay stuff isn't really new to me... Most horses have to have very limited alfalfa intake, too. Pure alfalfa hay is also fed to pregnant and dairy cattle to have enough nutrients to keep them healthy.

I'm glad you were able to get your rabbit out of bad conditions, Azusanga. Some people have some really great pets and don't appreciate them at all.

Ours are regular-size rabbits, not dwarfs or giants (though these people have a couple giants, too). I think their full adult age is six months, though obviously all animals have a tendency to be able to breed younger than that. The spaying anesthesia risk, from what I've read, is for ones over a couple years old or so.

No need to worry about clean cages with our bunnies! My mom is a neat freak. Our litter boxes get cleaned out probably every day...



Okay. I'd just like other people's opinions here - not that I'm really relying on online people to alter diets...just looking for input.

These are the two pellets we bought for the rabbits (because we couldn't agree and figured the rabbits could choose for us which they favored...or just eat them both!):
Type 1
Type 2

My mom trusts Kaytee because our parakeet did really well with their foods (although I've heard bad things about their rat food...not that I've had any first-hand experience or comments to support it), and I thought the Brown's food both matched their current pellets as much as possible and had a decent fiber content. Do those look good? I think the Brown's I have has some small carrot slices and dried corn, too, but it's straight pellets besides that. The rabbits are used to straight pellets and the occasional hay and carrot treat. Pellets are supposed to be best for them, anyway, so we're sticking with that.

The place where I get the food also has these available:
Type 3
Type 4
Type 5
Type 6


Blargh. That was long. Sorry.

Yea, Usagi had NEVER been socialized really, he was REALLY hard to catch after he ran around for a while in the basement to put back in his cage. My friend has another rabbit, Thumper, but they're prolly gonna sell him. I hope they do, he's not getting proper attention >.<
We had to sell Usagi cause my dad stuck his finger in the cage and Usagi bit him. Good thing my cousin wanted a rabbit X3
Now Usagi is renamed Agamemnon or something, and he's best friends with Fred and George, the two Golden Retreivers they have XD

but yeah.
Usagi came pretty much litter trained and was the easiest little devil to clean up after X3
That and he would hop around and stare at my mom while she sewed and when she would reach down to pet him he'd go flying like a rocket, to circle me in the computer chair, hop into his cage, do his business in the box, hop around for a bit, and go back by mom mom xD

be sure and bond with them. that will make your job as caretaker easier.

ok guys, lets try to stick to the subject please ^_^

and bonding with my bun-buns has been no problem. i went to SeaWorld thish week end and left my 3 dogs, rabbits, 2 fish and and 2 frogs unbder the care of some friends and when i got home last night, Princess was sooo happy to see me she put her littles paws up on the door of her cage while i was seeing to Betty, and gave me the bunny version of a dogs welcome home when u get back after a long day. she did a few laps arround her cage. it was cute.

they mite be. just dont leave them in the same room unattended. that could be bad....

well at least they r used to cats. rabbits die of heart attacks, unlike us who can survive them, n being chased by cats could most likely cause one