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I see lots of posts about cats and dogs, which are wonderful (we have plenty of both), and even guinea pigs, but I've never seen anyone talk about their rabbits on the bee. Surely someone has rabbits?  We fostered one last fall and loved her, so we are talking about getting two small ones when we move into our apartment in August.  Anyone have any pictures or stories about their bunnies?

Aw yay! I knew there had to be a few people out there with rabbits.  Doubledutch, that's great you rescued some lab bunnies!  We were actually going to rescue lab rats this week but they found enough local people to adopt them all out that there were none left for us to adopt.  Our foster bun was confiscated from a hoarder too, and had been used to breed CONSTANTLY.   Poor girl had been through a lot.  It's amazing she grew to trust is as much as she did.

gretchin, I'm so sorry to hear that your baby had to be put to sleep. :(  I agree that they have lots of personality!  We let our foster bun free roam most of the day too, boy did that take a lot of bunny proofing because she wasn't yet spayed and was a really high-energy gnawer--but her cage was too small to leave her in for very long, since she was in my dorm room, and she didn't really get into any trouble aside from chewing up the one end of my suitcase (which I fixed by gluing some grosgrain ribbon onto the gnawed edge).

 We are thinking of getting a boy and a girl and working from day one to make them a bonded pair.  I'm so excited!  Bunnies are so cute, especially when they're excited, and I just love the way they eat.  I think both FI and I are looking forward to developing a deeper, long-term relationship with rabbits, compared to the one we were able to develop with our foster, who eventually grew somewhat affectionate towards us but had been through so much that it took a lot of work.

Any pics of your bunnies, ladies??  Here's one of our foster.

i have a bunny! He is my third. His name is Henry. I am a HUGE rabbit lover. Their cute little faces just melt my heart away. He is so curious and loves to run around. I love cuddling with him! I call him my little 'bom bom'

I have a bunny!  His name is Harper, he is 7 years old, and 6.5 pounds of cuteness.  He is litter box trained, so he get to roam around when we're at home... although he is always getting himself into trouble.  Oh, also, he snorts like a pig!

Oh yay! Everyone has such adorable bunnies!!  You're all making me so excited for ours.  

@BostonBee: poor bunny definitely sounds like he was traumatized by her experience with those mean girls :( It was so nice of you to take him in and give him a good home.  Our foster did the same thing at first and would never come out from under the bed...so we blocked it all off.  She was forced to socialize with us, which was pretty successful haha.

@BunnyBridetoBe: I love that your bunny knows "CSA", hahaha.  I've got to find a good one we can get a hearty share from in NYC, because our fresh food is free for bunny atm, or at least sort of, since we "steal" it from the school's cafeteria (not that I didn't buy our foster, and won't buy our future buns, so many treats at the grocery store just because they're so darned cute).  Foster bunny ate SO many fresh vegetables; the thought of paying for that much produce for one bunny scares the heck out of me.  That's why we're aiming for smaller ones, ha.  She was pretty big, though you can't quite tell from the pic.

@HoneyBear: what kind of dog does he have?  I have seen many pics, videos, and stories of dogs getting along well with bunnies, but it really depends.  We have a coonhound, i.e., a rambunctious nut of a dog bred for hunting, and we literally could not peel her away from the door of my bedroom when I brought foster bun home for Christmas break.  The dog never saw the rabbit, but she could smell her to be sure, and just sat howling at the door all day.  It was pretty awful.  They would not have worked together.  Our golden retriever, however, was pretty ambivalent to her presence.

Agh!!!! These pictures are KILLING me.  Your bunnies are SO adorable.  It especially makes me sad because we've decided to hold off on getting bunnies for awhile.  We initially planned to adopt two rescued lab rats, but then were told they'd found enough adopters.  I talked to FI and got all psyched about adopting bunnies, and posted this thread too.  THEN we receive an email saying that some of the rat adopters backed out, and would we still be interested?  How could I say no?  So tomorrow we have two little white adorable rats headed our way.  My impure intentions show though--when I bought a cage, I searched high and low for one that would be suitable for both rats AND the bunnies we will get after our rats (NOT an easy task considering their respective needs, but I pulled it off!). 

Swoon.  Bunnies are way too freaking cute.  I'm sure I'll love my rats...but bunnies are in my heart!

@DoubleDutch: that picture is hilarious!

@Twalila: I am also marrying a man who grew up without pets, and though we never quite had he farm you guys did (we totally would have if it had been my choice, but parents would always shoot down excess pets), it is SO WEIRD to see him be so fumbling and awkward with animals, and to hear his thoughts on human-pet relationships.  He's gotten a lot better after I've basically forced him to interact with my cats, dogs, and our foster bun most recently, but he's still got a long way to go.  I kept hermit crabs when I was younger, and had them in an absolutely enormous decked-out aquarium, and I swear to this day that they can be friendly, sweet, and adorable.  I don't know if I ever have any hope of selling FI on that notion, though. ;)

@Bride_Colleen: "Eventually he started jumping on me in the middle of the night and I would toss him and I thought I might kill him so I put him back in a cage." Lol! That's our experience with Bunny, too.  When she figured out how to jump on the bed, we were screwed...because unfortunately she also always mistook it for the litterbox! It was the only place she would pee aside from her litterbox, which was so confusing.  After being woken up three different nights to the warmth of bunny pee on our legs...we decided that free-roaming bunny would be free-roaming no more.  She wasn't spayed, so she was a bit nutso at times, but we still loved her.  The shelter we fostered her for neuters/spays ALL bunnies before adopting them out, and I'd nagged the staff about setting up a spay appointment for her for ages while we had her, since they'd promised they would but it never happened while she was under our care.  Otherwise, we may have loved her a bit too much and ended up keeping her, I think!