naturestee
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Yeah, pm me your email and I'll email the linksto you. I'll send a few links of the better care brochurestoo, if you want them. They're also handy to give out if yousell one of your babies as a pet.
I hate pet stores!
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TinysMom
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I can understand crossbreeding if it is done fora purpose. For instance, Jenny and Puck have had 3 litterstogether...or maybe 2 .... I'd have to look it up. Jenny issome sort of a crossbreed and Puck is holland lop. However, we hadpeople who had wanted lop babies and we only had Puck at the time andJenny and Puck make some beautiful babies. However, I rarely do thatbreeding even though Jenny is an awesome mommy and actually isdepressed when she doesn't have a litter. Still yet- I can't keepbreeding her just to keep her from being depressed....
I also do lionlops (and I did look at 2 lops yesterday and consider them for the program).
But Art and I talked about it on the way home after I'd said no tobuying them (he encouraged me to say no although he would NOT havecomplained if I'd bought them). He said, "Peg, you're getting greatcomments on your lionheads and getting the type down and stuff likethat...focus on them first since that is your main breed.." and he wasright. Now had I seen a chocolate lop doe...yeah..I wouldhave bought her. But what I saw was two tort does...and they won't gowell with Puck (my holland lop).
But I am pretty much against cross-breeding. I have done it for rareoccassions knowing that I may wind up having to keep some rabbits andlove on them and stuff....but I don't do it that much.
I'm also against breeding for pet stores. Well...maybe I should put itthis way. IF I had a pet store near me that was really good - and if Ihad a pet quality bunny born to me - and if that store wanted it at theage I release them (they wouldn't)....then I would consider it.However, most pet stores don't want them at 8 weeks.
I think I had someone calling me for a pet store to. He called andasked me some questions and his final question (and I could sort oftell that it was major) was "How old are your babies and at what agecan I buy them?" When I said, "8 weeks is the minimum - if Ifeel comfortable with the home they're going to.." and "I reserve theright to refuse sales for any reason." he quickly said "thank you" andhung up.
Never heard from him again. Probably a good thing..
Peg
naturestee wrote:
I also do lionlops (and I did look at 2 lops yesterday and consider them for the program).
But Art and I talked about it on the way home after I'd said no tobuying them (he encouraged me to say no although he would NOT havecomplained if I'd bought them). He said, "Peg, you're getting greatcomments on your lionheads and getting the type down and stuff likethat...focus on them first since that is your main breed.." and he wasright. Now had I seen a chocolate lop doe...yeah..I wouldhave bought her. But what I saw was two tort does...and they won't gowell with Puck (my holland lop).
But I am pretty much against cross-breeding. I have done it for rareoccassions knowing that I may wind up having to keep some rabbits andlove on them and stuff....but I don't do it that much.
I'm also against breeding for pet stores. Well...maybe I should put itthis way. IF I had a pet store near me that was really good - and if Ihad a pet quality bunny born to me - and if that store wanted it at theage I release them (they wouldn't)....then I would consider it.However, most pet stores don't want them at 8 weeks.
I think I had someone calling me for a pet store to. He called andasked me some questions and his final question (and I could sort oftell that it was major) was "How old are your babies and at what agecan I buy them?" When I said, "8 weeks is the minimum - if Ifeel comfortable with the home they're going to.." and "I reserve theright to refuse sales for any reason." he quickly said "thank you" andhung up.
Never heard from him again. Probably a good thing..
Peg
naturestee wrote:
TinysMom
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OOOH - send me the links to the better care brochures too...I'd like them for my customers!
Peg
Peg
naturestee
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Peg, I'll just post them here for you, so otherscan use them too. They're all from rescue sites, so they'llsay house rabbits only and never ever breed, but that's good for petowners anyway.
My shelter has this one available:
http://www.rabbit.org/care/living-with-a-houserabbit.pdf
OREO's general brochure:
http://www.ontariorabbits.org/pdfs/brochure_pet_forum_low.pdf
And a page with all their brochures in one spot: Diet, housing, health, behavior, bonding...
http://www.ontariorabbits.org/links/downloads.html
Several good brochures here, as well as non-brochure articles, from aUK perspective. Includes a brochure on outdoor housing.
http://www.houserabbit.co.uk/rwf/information.htm
Outdoor housing in particular (because it's hard to find info from a rescue org):
http://www.houserabbit.co.uk/pdfs/271_SECS_07_04.pdf
The files labeld "pdf" here are brochures/printouts. Allsorts of good stuff here, including a rabbits and heat printout thatTexas bunnies probably need.
http://www.adoptarabbit.org/articles.html
My most favorite toy list ever comes from there, I just gave this to the shelter yesterday:
http://www.adoptarabbit.org/articles/2003/Toys.pdf
The Rabbit Menu: UK safe/unsafe plant list that works well here too.
http://www.mckellier.com/archives/images/2006/RabbitMenu.pdf
That's about all I can find at the moment. Use what you like!
My shelter has this one available:
http://www.rabbit.org/care/living-with-a-houserabbit.pdf
OREO's general brochure:
http://www.ontariorabbits.org/pdfs/brochure_pet_forum_low.pdf
And a page with all their brochures in one spot: Diet, housing, health, behavior, bonding...
http://www.ontariorabbits.org/links/downloads.html
Several good brochures here, as well as non-brochure articles, from aUK perspective. Includes a brochure on outdoor housing.
http://www.houserabbit.co.uk/rwf/information.htm
Outdoor housing in particular (because it's hard to find info from a rescue org):
http://www.houserabbit.co.uk/pdfs/271_SECS_07_04.pdf
The files labeld "pdf" here are brochures/printouts. Allsorts of good stuff here, including a rabbits and heat printout thatTexas bunnies probably need.
http://www.adoptarabbit.org/articles.html
My most favorite toy list ever comes from there, I just gave this to the shelter yesterday:
http://www.adoptarabbit.org/articles/2003/Toys.pdf
The Rabbit Menu: UK safe/unsafe plant list that works well here too.
http://www.mckellier.com/archives/images/2006/RabbitMenu.pdf
That's about all I can find at the moment. Use what you like!
ahri22
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Well, on Saturday I took my son into the petstore to look at rabbits, first telling him we were not buying a bunnyfrom the pet store (the rabbits there are $20 for a generic rabbit...nobreed $30 for a dwarf and $35 for a dwarf lop...basically, these are noparticular breed, just rabbits with these characteristics. I recentlyfound a breeder of Cashmere lops who sells them for $30, they're handreared and have papers...)
Anyway, it was very sad...there were a LOT of bunnies there, in housesthat were too small. I don't know how long they've been there, but Irecognised several as having been there the week before when I wentinto the store to buy some stuff with my daughter.
Of course, my son wanted to hold a bunny...the poor darlings were sonervous. I just wanted to hold one and love it for a moment...
Also, they had one cage with quite a few bigger buns...and one teenylittle Guinea Pig!!! At one point one of the bigger buns actually laydown on top of the Guinea Pig!! How dangerous and irresponsible isthat??!!
Anyway...in the cage at the end next to the rabbits (where they had aferret last week) were a whole bunch of ducklings! Sooo cute, ofcourse...but again...ducklings! I felt so sorry for the poor dears...
Of course, ducklings and chicks are very cute, but it doesn't take longfor a chick to grow into a full sized chicken, nor for a duckling togrow into a duck...And to many people, they lose their baby cutenessvery quickly, and become just another throwaway pet...so sad!!
Anyway, it was very sad...there were a LOT of bunnies there, in housesthat were too small. I don't know how long they've been there, but Irecognised several as having been there the week before when I wentinto the store to buy some stuff with my daughter.
Of course, my son wanted to hold a bunny...the poor darlings were sonervous. I just wanted to hold one and love it for a moment...
Also, they had one cage with quite a few bigger buns...and one teenylittle Guinea Pig!!! At one point one of the bigger buns actually laydown on top of the Guinea Pig!! How dangerous and irresponsible isthat??!!
Anyway...in the cage at the end next to the rabbits (where they had aferret last week) were a whole bunch of ducklings! Sooo cute, ofcourse...but again...ducklings! I felt so sorry for the poor dears...
Of course, ducklings and chicks are very cute, but it doesn't take longfor a chick to grow into a full sized chicken, nor for a duckling togrow into a duck...And to many people, they lose their baby cutenessvery quickly, and become just another throwaway pet...so sad!!
