First Buns :)

[jcottonl02]

Hey everyone

I just wanted to know how everyone got their first bunnies and why etc.
The more stories the better!!
I'll start.

I have two bunnies at the moment- Benji and Pippin.

Benji was my first rabbit, who I got in January this year (I got Pippin about a month ago now).
I work at a vets- and i was there one day and came in and saw Benji in a kennel. He was so beautiful- I had never really been close to a rabbit before. I just stroked him gently and looked at him- he was so gorgeous!!!!
Then I was talking to the head veterinary nurse, and she said that the rabbit was abandoned. They had found him a few days ago in a box on the doorstep of the vets; he was ill, and bleeding after being attacked by another rabbit.
They brought him inside and cleaned him up and helped him to get better- and he did! He had been attacked, and basically his little bunny bits had been chewed off, so they had to do an emergency neuter, so he was already neutered when I first saw him.
Then Donna (the vet nurse) said he needed a home. I had never owned rabbits before and i was COMPLETELY sure that my parents would say no. I was 99.9% sure.
But I said to her I would ask, becuase I had fallen completely head over heels in love with him and wanted to give him a loving home with me.
So I asked my mum when she picked me up, really seriously. Not just 'aww he's so cute I want him' but a proper conversation. And she was silent for a bit and then just said 'yes'. And I was like 'WHAT??????????????????' and she said 'yes. I can see you really want to give him a good home. So yes. As long as you are the one who buys everything for him and looks after him then yes.' I was sooo thrilled and I ran back inside to tell Donna and arranged when to pick him up.
When I got home, my dad said no. He wouldn't budge. So I went to bed and cried myself to sleep, dreading the conversation I'd have to have with Donna, saying I couldn't have him.

I work up the next day and went downstairs, and my dad was there. He'd obviously been thinking hard, and then he just said 'so what kind of hutch are you going to get' and smiled at me. I think I might have broken his back hugging him so hard lol!!

It hasn't really turned out like my mum said; yes, I do buy most of their food and hay (all of their toys and treats) but occasionally my mum will buy then for me. And my parents spent over 200 pounds on materials to built Benji's hutch, and my Dad built it- and now my Dad has ordered this ridiculously expensive fencing to built their new biiiggg run and he's bought all the materials to extend their hutch to double storey, and all I have to buy is a container to keep all Ben's stuff in.
But they love both the buns to pieces- they go out and feed them leaves etc. and go out to say hello while I'm at skl- and to stroke them and put them in their run etc.

So!! That's my story of my first ever bunny- that I would NEVER have dreamed I would ever be allowed to get. It's been one of the best things to ever happen to me, in my entire life (past and future) and now my little Pippin has been added and everything is just so perfect!

Benji: about a year old

Pippin: 14 weeks on Thursday

What about everyone else's first buns!!! And, of course, some pics of their other buns too!!!!

 

[~BunBuns~]

Since i was 5 years old i've asked my parents for a dog, cat, anything i could touch instead of fish (i used to touch the fish). One day me and my dad were watching the O.C and there was a bunny named Pancakes..a little cutie pie. That week and month all i basically did on the weekends was look up rabbit info. I presented my mom and dad with the good and bad things about bunnies and i was crossing my fingers. About a week after then said ok "MAYBE" . My birthday was coming up (march 15) so i thought that would be a good excuse. On march the 10th after dinner i asked my dad if we could go to the mall and look at the pet shop. Usually he would say "NO, you go there almost everyday" But this time he said yes. When we got there i was runing around looking a ferrets, snakes, i noticed that my dad wasnt following me around so i went around looking for him and i got to the puppy and dog section and then the rabbit section and i saw him talking to the petshop worker and pointing to the rabbit and she was pointed to food and things like that.. When i got to my dad the petshop lady suddenly dumped this cute ball of fluffy into my arms and was babling about something. After she grabbed him back and stuffed him in a little box and ran with it to the cashier. Thats how i got bunbuns.

here are som recent pictures.

 

[Korr_and_Sophie]

I don't know what sparked my interest but I really wanted a bun. I did a report for school on bunnies in grade 10. That same year I bought a cage at a garage sale. About a year later I really focused on getting one. I checked the humane society website every few days. i eventually got Korr froma pet store. He was the only one there and I fell in love.

After having Korr for almost a year, I decided to get him a girl friend. I went looking on the humane society site again. I eventually found Sophie. I fell in love the minute I saw her pic. I knew I had to have her. I convinced my mom to take me and Korr down there to see if they would get along. During the introduction Korr hid and Sophie was a little more curious. I adopted her but had to wait until she got spayed to bring her home.

 

[Chickenlittle586]

I got my first bun when i was 8. My friend had a rabbit that she got from her relatives as some gift. As most cases go, she soon got tired of it and didn't take care of it. She used kitty litter in the cage instead of bedding, and well, she didn't clean out the cage very often because all you could see was poop. The poor thing was stuck in her cage all the time just walking on her poo. She got fed every few days and that can't be good. No creature deserves to be treated that way. The mom didn't take care of the rabbit.......which she should have been seeing as how my friend was 8. Isn't the parent supposed to be the "legal" caretaker of the animal when they have a child that age? I mean i know the kid can help out but still geeze, how can you just sit around knowing what's going on with the animal? Anywho enough ranting on with my still deep inside me anger of the situation. My friend and her mom went camping and my mom and me were stuck taking care of their house and everything that comes with it while they were gone. I FINALLY convinced my mom to let me take Fluffy home. That bun was SOOOOOOOOOOOO spoiled by me. I only had her for about a year and a half.......but out of those 8 years she was alive i think i made it all worth it for her. Now, 13 years later........i have a whole zoo of rabbits. What can i say, i love my buns

 

[babymaker64]

I am 42 years old and have never owned a rabbit. I was never interested in them. Until about 2 months ago when my son found 2 bunnies. A woman had thrown them out because she no longer wanted them. I tried to say no but I took 1 look at them and I fell in love.

This is Nipper

This is Big Wig

I didn't know what sex they were so I kept them seperate so that there was no funny business.
They don't like people very much but they are getting better. My son can hold them but they won't let anyone else. Anyway I decided that I would like a house rabbit so I bought a Continental Giant. This is Stanley.

He is a lovely boy, that turned out to be a girl but thats another story. I have so much fun with him or her. I don't know what I would do without shim.

I got Nipper fixed. He turned out to be a boy. I was planning to get Big Wig fixed the month after but when I was cleaning out her hunch I found 7 bold wriggly things. She must have already been pregnant as we had only had her for 2 and a half weeks. Her babies are now 4 weeks old. So in the space of about 2 and a half months I have gone from having no rabbits to 10. The babies will be going to their new homes at 8 weeks and then I'll be back to 3.

Once Big Wig is fixed they will live together again. They have the best of both worlds. They each have a turn at coming in the house and they get the whole of the garden aswel.

I would like to say thankyou to everyone on this site because if it wasn't for you guys I would have been totaly lost.

 

[myLoki]

I got my bun Loki in June of 2006. He's a great little bun I rescued from a lady who found him in her yard. He was obviously somebody's pet that had escaped or worse, was released :X. She couldn't keep him at home so posted him up for adoption on Craigslist.

My roomate and I desperately wanted a pet. A dog was out of the question where we live, and I'm allergic to cats. When I saw the post, I immediatly emailed the lady and she said I could go pick him up right now. I had nothing ready because it had obviously been an impulse adoption so I picked him up in a cardboard box. He was the cutest thing on God's green earth. He was friendly and curious. Not an ounce of fear in him at all. I suppose he had to be brave to survive all alone outside.

My roomate has since joined the Army so Loki is pretty much my bun. I've had him for over a year now and he's deeply bonded to me.

Here's one of the very first pictures of him.

t.

 

[Luvmyzoocrew]

my official first bun was when i was little, my parents purchased them from a petstore. Bab's and Buster , dont know if they were boy or girl, well they got sick and one died, so my parents got another on and they mine got sick died and then the other one got sick and died. Well needless to say neither my parents or i were educated enough about rabbits, so that was the end of that. fast foreward many many years later, i am 32 and was thinking about getting a rabbit . So i surfed the internet till rabbit infor was just spilling out of my head so i figured that when the oppurtunity presented itself i would be ready. One day i was looking on Craigslist and someone had posted that they had a bunny that was 3-4 months old that they needed to find a home for because there husband was allergic, she had only had "him" for 2 weeks, they had a picture and i fell in love and emailed her.after corresponding withher about the rabbit and trying to get all the info i could from her, and answering somequestion that she had for meWe drove 1 1/2 hours to get "him". it was freezing cold out and i was worried that the cold and the stress of traveling would hurt "him" i was already in love with "him". when we got "him" he was in a small cage, that i was going to have to replace once "he" got bigger, he didnt have hay, he had a tiny dish of pellets and a little water bottle. over the next 2 days i went out and spent a fortune getting chew toys, different veggies, bigger bowls, bigger water bottle, a litter box,hay, a hay holder, more food, a bed, more toys, a playpen to put around her cage so she could come out. i bought so much stuff that i needed to upgrade her living quarters, lol, and that was when i started to plan on getting the cubes and building"him" a larger house. for a while i contenplated pen living but then i seen all the awesome nic cages so i went with one of them . We went to get him nuetered and found out that my little Oliver was a SHE, lol. Ikeep buying more stuff that i am thinking about upgrading her cage and adding on one more set of panels, so instead of 3x2, it will be 4x2, lol. i could just solve the problem by not buying everything i see for her, lol, but what fun would that be, lol. i want to also thank everyone here for being so welcoming, i was happy to find a place where there were people that were just as crazy as i was,lol. i talk to non bunny people about her and they just dont get it, but you all do, lol.



this is a pic the night we picked her up,she was so tiny.

this is a recent one from after her spay. She is a different color from when i got her, she is all patchy now.



that is my story and i am sticking to it,lol, :stikpoke <~~~~~~ this is the best smiley, lol

 

[MyBabyBunnies]

Well lets see, I had just had to stop horseback riding and was really animal deprived. it just so happened that my friend had 3 rabbits which were all supposed to be the same sex but one turned out to be a male. Much to her surprise she came out one day to find a litter of bunnies in their box.

Well as time wore on I fell in love with the only caramel colored bunny in the litter. I asked my friend to hold on to him for me and when my dad came to pick me up, I showed him the cute little babies and asked him if I could have one. He caved in and said yes, but my mom had no idea. She never found out until she found us putting the finishing touches on the hutch in the garage.:thud:Well imagine her reaction, LOL!

A few weeks later I brought home my little Mocha who used to fit in the palm of my hand at 6-7 weeks old.

Four years later he is still a very special bunny and a great friend. Now he's just a little bigger! He's now 7.5 lbs.

Because of this guy, I just keep adding about one bunny per year, LOL!

 

[Butterfinger]

Wow....my FIRST first rabbit I don't remember so well...
But she was a REW Holland Lop, and her name, I believe, was Fluffy.
I know, I was so original for a five-year old.
But this rabbit was the awesome-est bunny EVER. She would hop around and play with us, and when I held her upside down, she would trance with all her legs in the air like she was standing up, and she wouldn't come out of the trance until I turned her over again.
And she neeeever bit me or anyone, and was the nicest bunny ever, even though we never spayed her or anything.... She also had malloclusion, but that's not so awesome. (Or however you spell it?)
Well, we were playing with her in the yard one time (Back when it was all the way closed in) but she escaped somehow, and was lost We searched, and made posters, and when we were in the middle of making more posters, she hopped back into our yard, and we caught her again! But she died the next day I think she might have eaten something poisonous and came back to be with us in her last moments.

After her, we had two caramel-colored French Angora boys that turned out to have.....pasteurella, I believe it was, and we ended up taking them back to the breeder...
But then we drove out and got two black and white dutch girls, and they haaaaated each other, and were kinda mean sometimes, but we loved them, and one lived for about twelve years, but the other died of pneumonia fairly early on

And now there's Butter! He's actually pretty similar to my first rabbit in temperment. I seem to be having good experiences with Holland Lops, lol

Sorry I don't have any pictures of Fluffy.... I think I do have one photo, but it's not in the computer (See, this was back when we had to fight off the dinosaurs to take trips to the store and develop the film in our old non-digital camera, which was, at the time, hot stuff. )

 

[monklover]

My first rabbit is Buddy. I got him because I love animals and I decided I wanted something other than the fish. I wanted a cat but my parents are allergic. I then decided that I wanted a rabbit. At first my parents said NO. I just told them that I would get a rabbit no matter what. My parents really did not care. They just said no. At that time I was an average non bunny kid who thought that rabbits just ate carrots all day!

I started researching rabbits and everyday I would tell my parents what I learned. 3 months went by and I kept up the researching. My parents soon got me a rabbit book. I was soo excited and read it in one day! My parents finally said that I MIGHT be able to get one and my dad started talking about what kind of cage to build!

During Hannukah these are the presents I got: A carrot toy for the rabbit, a water bottle, a feeder, a harness, and some other rabbit supplies. I was SOOO happy, and they were the best presents ever!

My dad finally called a rescue place and told them what kind of bunny I wanted. I wanted a mini lop that was somewhat used to dogs. As soon as I saw Buddy I fell in love with him! He started circling around my feet and running up to me! I saw some other kids go in to the pen with him and I got mad and told my dad that Buddy was the one and that I wanted him now! :biggrin2:

 

[Aliena]

In December of 05 my cousin got two bunnies for her kids. I had been asking my mum for rabbits for years but mum didn't see the point, she thought it would just sit in a hutch all day, so the answer was always no. Well when my cousin got bunnies for her kids I got her to tell my mum how cool they really were and at the same time I was looking on TradeMe (an auction site) at all the rabbits for sale and I found just the one I wanted. So I made the picture of him the background of the computer and eventually my mum caved.

I named him Beauclair Featheringsol Cosfortingham, because I used to read a series of books when I was a kid that had all sorts of animals in them and there was a rabbit (or maybe a hare) with that name and I had always dreamed of getting a rabbit and calling him that.

So here is Beau:

He doesn't like having his picture taken, he's acutally a bit of grump most of the time but I still love him. He was also the beginning of my love affair with rabbits and now I have three does and three bucks. And my mother was pleasantly surprised too, he is one of her favourites

 

[undergunfire]

My first bunbun was Midnight, though I called her "Middy". I got her as my first pet when I was about 7 years old. My dad took me to the petstore in the mall, and I picked her out. He built her a nice hutch in the backyard...where she lived for 9 years.

Middy had an accidental litter at age 8, all of the babies died. Middy lived a year later, then passed away.

I knew NOTHING about rabbits then, and I am ashamed that I didn't know what I know now.

I rescued a pet rat from a friend who was basically letting her starve to death. She was a himilayan rat who was very attached to me. She loves to lick me and "clean" my teeth with her teeth. She was so special to me. She died on November, 11-07-06....and I was heart broken, and still am.

I started searching for a pet that I could have, that would live for more than 2 years, unlike rats. I remembered my childhood with Middy, and decided to do the proper research this time around....


I contacted a lady a few hours from me, after seeing Mallory and Morgan's pictures and description up on Petfinder.com. It was love at first site. On Janruary 24th, 2007....I brought home my love bunnies!

(hehe, look at baby Mallory!)

 

[CheyAutRanch]

I got my first bun when I was a kid (hmm... 10 or 11 I think). She was a REW, and thinking back, I"m sure she was a rex (not sure mini or not) b/c I'm almost positive she had the rex fur, but I need to find pics... now that I know about rabbits

I got her at a Petstore. Of course, we had no idea she was PREGNANT!!!! One day I found 4 little (dead ) buns all lined in a row. I'm not sure why they were dead, I was too young and rabbit-stupid to figure out why. Maybe too cold since they didn't have a nest box... who knows.

She was a fun bun I loved to take her outside on leash in our front yard, she liked to bun under our big pine tree.

Now, fast forward 15+ years and I have rabbits again Only this time, I;m much more educated on them, so hopefully they are having a better life. Not that she had a bad one, just not as well as it could be (never had hay, lived in a cage with wire floor, ect).

Jessi

 

[jcottonl02]

Wow- what interesting stories!

I've just realised- I did have a bunny when I was a baby- obviously it was not mine lol it was my parents- but I don't know the breed. I only have one picture:

He was so gorgeous. But my parents said we gave him away cos me and dara (my sister) didn't pay any attention to him. but we were babies- how were we supposed to appreciate a rabbit? I just wish we still had him now

I'm really glad that I haven't had a rabbit before now, owning it myself, because I would probably not have had the responsibility or knowledge or maturity to look after it properly. I'm glad I got Benji now- cos now I feel I can look after him the best I possibly can. But I guess it's different with people- my friend had guineau pigs when she was really young and she was so responsible and mature looking after them- I'm not sure I would be like that when i was 10 or 11.