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Please don't buy cute fluffly baby bunnies at Easter time,no matter how much  your kids etc pester you...unless you do some good research first.Alas, pet shops get in extra stock of baby rabbits(probably inbred etc) at this time of year.Rabbits grow into big old buggers,I have two.One weighs nearly 8 pounds the girl about 6,they can bite kick and scratch,chew like buggery etc.Mine are house rabbits,they have wrecked two comp keyboards cables, four mobile phone chargers,a laptop charger,three light flexes etc. and I  have no wallpaper below two feet in the living room.They also need specialist bunny vet care.They have complicated guts etc and cost a lot of money if thinghs go wrong with them...so think on and buy your kids etc a stuffed furry bun toy instead.

I was reading today that the rescue centres,RSPCA etc are overflowing already with dumped pet rabbits..

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Not trying to lecture folks,but they do need more care than folk think.Some folk buy a pet shop hutch for the garden etc(always too small) put the buns in it and feed them etc, then the novelty wears off etc as they grow out of the baby fluffy stage and rabbits can be very stroppy.
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.
kattymieoww
Right Cost of two buns ÂĢ20.00 each..Boy getting his nuts off...ÂĢ30.00. So far so good..Trip to the vet with "Gut stasis" ,anti -biotic.pro- botic gunge to feed ,"meta calm" pain killer cost total  ÂĢ40.00.Cutting of claws ÂĢ10.00.We now do this ourselves with confidance.

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.
kattymieoww
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I know Katty I know....As if ladies of our standing would.*Chokes*
They're more fun lying down  

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..
Demantoid
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So...outlay for the boy bun About ÂĢ100.00 so far Girl bun,,ÂĢ300.00... not a cheap pet....Get a Hamster!
And still do your research! Hamsters are little, but they do have specific needs, likes and dislikes. It amazes me how often I hear people saying: "can you keep them together?"
Unless they're the little Russian or Chinese type, no! And even then, they need keeping an eye on, in case..
Demantoid
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My russian dwarf hamsters used to fight like billy-o who is billy-o
 I had to separate one of mine from the others when I first got them - the smallest one was a bully who terrorised the other three. Just as well, because she turned out to be a laydee, and I didn't want any more accidental hamster babbies! I'd had some with a previous group of hammies, it was fun but fraught
Demantoid

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!"

Garage Joe

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