Anybody have a spare (female) rabbit?

[GatorFarmer]

I thought that the older boy might like a pet. Thus we bought him a rabbit. My wife wanted to get a cat, but a rabbit was cheaper, and also tastier in case he didn't work out as a pet.

Anyway, after investing in a cage and such, the rabbit is now worth too much per pound to just fry up on a whim, and you need more than one rabbit for a good stew.

Unfortunately, he seems to be sullen. After talking with people who have rabbits, well not the practical types of rabbit lovers , since they'd have eaten him already, but the "foo foo" house rabbit types, it seems that my pet rabbit is possibly sullen because he's lonely and needs a female companion.

I tried giving him a stuffed rabbit, but apparently rabbits aren't stupid, just uncaring and vindictive, and that didn't fool him. That's why it is hard to teach them tricks. They're smart enough to learn, they just don't see why they ought bother.

Thus my choices apparently are to either find him a mate, fry him, neuter him, or deal with a sullen/depressed rabbit.

I can't see paying a vet to "fix" a rabbit that cost 15 bucks, and I don't really want to muck about trying to "fix" him myself with a Swiss Army knife (ouch), thus I'm thinking that finding him a mate might be the best idea.

I figure this will also have the advantage that I will then have *more rabbits*, tasty, and fryer ready... as soon as nature took its course.

So, find him a mate or eat him? What would you do?

Oh, we named the rabbit "Hossenfeffer".

 

[GatorFarmer]

I thought that the older boy might like a pet. Thus we bought him a rabbit. My wife wanted to get a cat, but a rabbit was cheaper, and also tastier in case he didn't work out as a pet.

Anyway, after investing in a cage and such, the rabbit is now worth too much per pound to just fry up on a whim, and you need more than one rabbit for a good stew.

Unfortunately, he seems to be sullen. After talking with people who have rabbits, well not the practical types of rabbit lovers , since they'd have eaten him already, but the "foo foo" house rabbit types, it seems that my pet rabbit is possibly sullen because he's lonely and needs a female companion.

I tried giving him a stuffed rabbit, but apparently rabbits aren't stupid, just uncaring and vindictive, and that didn't fool him. That's why it is hard to teach them tricks. They're smart enough to learn, they just don't see why they ought bother.

Thus my choices apparently are to either find him a mate, fry him, neuter him, or deal with a sullen/depressed rabbit.

I can't see paying a vet to "fix" a rabbit that cost 15 bucks, and I don't really want to muck about trying to "fix" him myself with a Swiss Army knife (ouch), thus I'm thinking that finding him a mate might be the best idea.

I figure this will also have the advantage that I will then have *more rabbits*, tasty, and fryer ready... as soon as nature took its course.

So, find him a mate or eat him? What would you do?

Oh, we named the rabbit "Hossenfeffer".

 

[zoom6zoom]

All this time I thought I was a just depressed. Apparently I'm a rabbit.

 

[RonJ]

Oh, we named the rabbit "Hossenfeffer".

I think you've given yourself a subliminal suggestion. :

 

[pps]

What a coinkidink. My oldest kid got into rabbits for 4h...these functions have the charm of a trekkie convention. These people get to much into it.

We're looking for a ho ....er um a doe for our little guy.

Please help, we are running out of stuffed animals. I think he is catching on, but strangely doesn't seem to care.

 

[Class III]

Deboned, pounded with a meat hammer, flour, lemon peper and hot oil.

That's all I have to say.

 

[mtb1bkr]

Originally posted by pps:
What a coinkidink. My oldest kid got into rabbits for 4h...these functions have the charm of a trekkie convention. These people get to much into it.

We're looking for a ho ....er um a doe for our little guy.

Please help, we are running out of stuffed animals. I think he is catching on, but strangely doesn't seem to care.

I think this sounds like a good chance for internet dating. Worked for Gator, could work for the bunnies.

Bill

 

[RonJ]

Can rabbits learn? I feed the cottontails that come into our yard. I throw chunks of carrots at them but unless I hit them in the head they won't chase after the food. When they get bonked they'll jump back a few inches, check to see what hit them, and then eat it.
Or maybe they're just lazy.

 

[Marshall 357]

Rabbits are cool,have a few myself.Get the doe and have some fun with them.

 

[ingmansinc]

Originally posted by GatorFarmer:
My wife wanted to get a cat, but a rabbit was cheaper, and also tastier in case he didn't work out as a pet.

Gator, the above sounds like you know for a fact that rabbit is tastier than cat. I am curious how you might have arrived at that conclusion without upsetting the little woman?

 

[tyusclan]

If y'all were closer I could help you out. I've got a litter of 5 week old New Zealand Whites right now. I'm keeping one doe, have one sold already, and the rest are going in the freezer.

 

[BarbC]

When I saw the title of the thread, I thought #3 might be on the way!

 

[ingmansinc]

Originally posted by tyusclan:
If y'all were closer I could help you out. I've got a litter of 5 week old New Zealand Whites right now. I'm keeping one doe, have one sold already, and the rest are going in the freezer.

Instead of snow birds coming south for the winter would that be a trop-a-bunny goes to cooler northern climate for the summer.

 

[2Loud4You]

Rabbits are pretty smart. Had a few as a kid and 1 was really cool, he was litter trained as well as did tricks. He didn't seem to care that he had no mate. I will say he was a chewing lil bastid, LOVED wires! If you've never heard it before it sounds funny when a rabbit barks and it usually means they're pi$$ed about something.

 

[rburg]

Originally posted by 2Loud4You:
I will say he was a chewing lil bastid, LOVED wires!

Back in the dark ages, 40+ years ago, my roommates and I decided to get a bunny as a dorm pet. We were only semi-mobile, me being the only one with wheels, and it as "unstable" at best. But we pooled our beer money, or what was left of it, and headed downtown. We found a pet store that had wabbits, and started the easy selection process. Most were white, a few dyed pink, blue, and yellow. Only one black one, obviously the black sheep of the group, so he went home with us. We named him Stokley (in honor of Stokley Charmichael, the black activist.

He was a lot of fun, and the only living pet on the entire floor. We lived in fear that he'd be discovered and we'd have to get rid of him.

Two incidents still remain in my memory. We had a wall covered with beer cans. It was hard work emptying them, but somehow we'd managed. Stacked floor to ceiling, hundreds of them. Each painstakingly emptied. But Stokley had a traction problem. Furry feet on a tile floor had him spinning out pretty often. One day he hobbled right over to the bottom outside can and gave it a sniff. More like poked it with his nose. We yelled, he tried to do a burnout, slipped, and brought the wall down. Everyone on the floor knew about the cans. It didn't take a genius to figure out how they got there. And yes, we had a visit within seconds from the floor "Resident Advisor". We were ordered to get rid of the cans. The bunny didn't make an appearance, lucky for us. His wife knew about him (yes, a cute young chicky living in a mens dorm, on our floor.) Not a problem, he'd go away to class or to study, she'd come down to visit the wabbit. She'd grown up with pets.

Then at the end of the school year, we were studying. We did that too. Suddenly there was a loud snap, a flash of light, as in electrical explosion, and the other room went dark. Ole Stokley had chewed thru another cord. Rule of thumb: if it was within his reach, he'd chew it.

He went to Grundy, West by Gawd Virginia at the end of the school year. A neighbor lived there (John Rife?) and said he'd take good care of the wabbit. We all figured stew.

 

[smith revolver cop]

these functions have the charm of a trekkie convention.

And the rabbits multiply like tribbles!!!

 

[M28]

Perhaps all the bunny needs is a waffle.

Brian~