I was reading today that the rescue centres,RSPCA etc are overflowing already with dumped pet rabbits..
I was reading today that the rescue centres,RSPCA etc are overflowing already with dumped pet rabbits..
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Poor things...... good advice Katty and worth repeating
Yeasterday I spent 20 minutes washing "Cleos" arse,she sits in her soft poops during the night and as a longer haired bun,that's what you have to do to keep them clean etc.
Now then the girl!...Womb removal etc ÂĢ40.00 this is a needs must in girl buns,if you don't they are more prone to cancer of the womb etc.It can really shorten therir lives otherwise,our girl has had two gut stasis and two urine infectiions.One was severe and she was kept at the vets as a patient for the day,the bill for that in the end was ÂĢ165.00 the other treatment was in total ÂĢ35.00...so get a fluffy toy if you're not wanting to pay vet bills etc.
Girl bun,,ÂĢ300.00... not a cheap pet....Get a Hamster!
i have been very lucky with my bunny and his is an absolute but as you say, they are hard work
Katty, neighbours of ours had an outdoor bunny (called Buns, sadly) and he reguarly had the run of the garden rather than being shut up in a hutch. I think he's passed on now, but he was around for years because they took good care of him.
My aunt once had a huge white male house rabbit called Thumper. He spend most of his time trying to mount the cat..
Unless they're the little Russian or Chinese type, no! And even then, they need keeping an eye on, in case..
Plus, you only have to feed them once a week.
who is billy-o
I was also intrigued and have lifted this..........................There isn't a clear-cut explanation of this phrase's origin. As it involves a common name, it is easy to come up with eponymous suggestions. For example, the 19th century steam locomotive the Puffing Billy. Alternatively, the derivation is said to be from Joseph Billio, the zealous 17th/18th century Puritan preacher. Billio preached at the United Reformed Church in Market Hill, Maldon, Essex, in and around 1696. He was an enthusiastic 'hellfire and damnation' preacher and, given his name and reputation, ought to be a serious contender as the source of the phrase. They are certainly convinced in Maldon, and it must be true - they have a plaque to prove it.
Regrettably, the phrase didn't become common until long after Billio's death and disappearance into obscurity (had you heard of him before?). The earliest printed record of the phrase in print is in the US newspaper The Fort Wayne Daily Gazette, March 1882:
"He lay on his side for about two hours, roaring like billy-hoo with the pain, as weak as a mouse."
Around the same time, a similar phrase emerged in the USA. In the North Dakota newspaper The Bismarck Tribune, September 1883, there's a piece of what Mel Brooks would have called "authentic frontier gibberish", under the title An Old Frontiersman Talks:
"You say Ol Grant was 'yar with the gang
And the capital's one hoo-doo
And the people cheered him like billy-be dang
Why, pardner, it can't be true!"
Give the kids choccy I say And their Mums