Introducing Spencer

lmbrown · Oct 5, 2009

Hi everyone,

My name is Lisa and we just adopted a bunnythat we named Spencer.He was found abandoned at the side of a highway. Poor little guy. But he has found a great home with us and lives in my daughter's bedroom with her two guinea pigs. He is litter box trained and has free time most of the afternoon until the early evening. He doesn't leave the bedroom because the hallway is a wooden floor and he's afraid of it.

We're not quite sure how old he is, but he's young. We just got him neutered last week.

So glad we found this website! Looks like a lot of our questions will be answered through reading the posts and posting ourselves.

Lisa

kahlin · Oct 5, 2009

Congrats on your addition!

Wabbitdad12 · Oct 5, 2009

:helloand :welcome1to RabbitsOnline. I am glad you found the site, Lisa and for giving Spencer a new lease on life. RO is a very active, friendly and helpful website devoted to rabbits and their slaves.

Here are some good links to areas of the site you might find interesting, the Library section, full of good reference info, Bunny Blog, where you can keep everyone up to date on your bunny and your life as a bunny slave and if you bunny would like to ask questions of other buns the Bunny Chat is the spot to be. The regional forum is a good way to find a rabbit savvy vet or to post places where you get some of your supplies for your bun etc. For the lighter side and to give you a chuckle or two stop by the go to the Let Your Hare Down section for anything but bunny's.

If you would like to post pictures in your post this link How to put photo's in your posts will help explain that.

I hope I didn't overwhelm you with info. This is a wonderful site and I look forward to seeing pictures and reading some stories.

Dave

tonyshuman · Oct 5, 2009

Hi and welcome! Spencer is a real cutie and I'm so glad you took him in after his previous people treated him so badly. A lot of bunnies don't like hardwood floors, although my first bunny Tony used to do binkies (crazy running jumps where they kick their heels in the air and shake their ears, a sign of happiness) up and down the hallway of hardwood, crashing into the walls at either end. He's since calmed down, though! All of the other bunnies we have had to be coaxed to go on the slippery floors, or we put down throw rugs for them. Can't wait to hear more stories and see more pics!

lmbrown · Oct 5, 2009

Thanks everyone. We have learned so much about rabbits over the last few weeks. We have done tons of reading. Of course, now looking at everyone's huge cages/set ups for their buns, I feel a bit guilty about Spencer's little cage. Well, it's 18x18x30, but he really only sleeps in it and his litter box is in there. He's out of the cage most of the day.

It's funny that you call it binkies.In the guinea pig world, it's popcorning, so that's what we've been calling this funny action. But yes, Spencer binkies all the time!

He does tend to bite you sometimes, which is really our only problem with him. We just got him neutered last week so I'm hoping the humping and biting ends soon. We have heard him click when we rub his ears, so he's definitely a happy bunny.