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by curlysue on November 19th, 2009
How do I tell the difference between a male& female Flemish giant?
by Answerbag Staff on June 15th, 2010
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Are baby rabbits really called kittens? My sister said they are, but it doesn't sound right to me.
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How do I tell if an English angora is male or female?
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How do I tell if my rabbit is a male or female?
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my rabbit is at 34 days pregnant, she made a nest days ago and i can feel babies in her stomach, what does this mean??
by jama69 on October 13th, 2011
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You're reading It upsets me to read so many questions about rabbit breeding considering all the poor buns in the world ignored in their cages, wasting away in shelters, and abandoned in parks to their own devices. Breeders: why do you do it?
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It's good to see you taking your rabbits seriously. There is overpopulation, though: not evenly spread throughout the world and perhaps not in your region, but news stories (generally North American & UK) pop up about rabbit dump rescues and other mass rescues fairly regularly (I often see them on MyHouseRabbit blog -- in fact there's one there now: http://www.myhouserabbit.com/blog/2009/11/16/update-luv-a-buns-mass-rescue/); and on a first-hand basis I see the overpopulation myself: my region supports not only a large rabbit room in the bigger humane society (and, likely, rabbits in other shelters as well), but also a rabbit rescue NGO for my city and environs, and an active re-homing discussion board on the website for a provincially-based rabbit education NGO. Maybe it's not like this where you live, but what's wrong with those bunnies at the next city's shelter you mentioned? And what about overpopulation and mass rescues elsewhere? Overpopulation requires emigration ... outside adoptions. If you have a car, nothing's stopping you from considering a 5-hour radius around your home when looking to own a rabbit. My point is, if you're patient and you do your research, I'm sure the overpopulation will reveal itself to you.
by Teresa on November 20th, 2009
Again, I congratulate you on your responsible rabbit care (sincerely), but I see on your profile that you live in Pittsburgh and, if this is true, frankly I find it hard to believe what you said about your local shelters. My region only supports a provincial rabbit education NGO, but you have one for your city alone: the Pittsburgh House Rabbit Club. They write on their website that "every year, hundreds of domestic rabbits are abandoned to Pittsburgh animal shelters" (http://www.pittsburghhouserabbit.org/info.html). On top of that, just 4 hours away in Harrisburg there are 25 rabbits in a shelter by BunnyPeople right now (http://www.petfinder.com/shelters/PA256.html), and 5 hours away in Oreland there's another 16 in a shelter by Rabbit Habit (http://www.rabbithabit.org/adoptables/). I found these 3 websites in less than 5 minutes in a google search, so there's probably others, too. What's wrong with these rabbits? Why don't you adopt them instead of bringing new rabbits into the world?
by Teresa on November 20th, 2009
There is another great article with many links on this issue here: http://arabbitblog.wordpress.com/2010/04/27/feral-rabbit-populations/.
by Teresa on May 29th, 2010