Both of our dogs and our cat have featured on this blog before, but our rabbit Johnny hasn’t. It’s time I fixed that.
He’s a lovely chap as you can see but unfortunately he spends most of his time alone in his pen, apart from occasions such as the pictured one where we bring him into the house for a short while for some fuss, or just to keep him warm when it’s particularly cold or windy out.
About 6 years ago, we bought a pair of supposedly female snow white rabbits with pink eyes, but got a surprise one day when we saw them “at it”. A litter soon arrived, followed by another. For a while there were two big rabbits and about 20 little ones all in the same pen. Feeding time was incredibly lovely as all these little white balls of fluff would hoppity hop from all over the large pen and crowd over our feet as we tried to fill their food bowls.
Separation was essential, so we sold the newest litter back to the pet shop, left the females together and put each of the males in his own pen to stop them from fighting. One by one they all died, probably because in-breeding had weakened them: the first pair were siblings after all. Johnny is the last one standing and he’s about 5 now.
Cheers, Tom.
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He's big.